Have you ever seen a dowser at work?

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helenbacque

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We once hired one to help find a good place to drill a well. He walked in the area holding a forked stick in front as he walked and within 30 minutes, he placed a marker. Drilling there brought in a great well with exceptionally good water that never ran dry in spite of a severe drought several years later.

I believe in the talent because I witnessed it but logic tells me I should not. Any experiences?
 

I've never seen one. However I saw a documentary on the Australian aboriginees and they showed this dude that coud just walk out into the desert and find a place where if you dug down you would hit water. He didn't have any funny looking stick. I guess he just knew what signs to look for. I figure that's what these dowsers do. They know enough about reading the lay of the land to know where a good spot to dig for water is, and the funny looking stick is just for show.

 

Yes , I can dowse and you probably can also. I dowsed my own well and a couple of others. Now I am not as good as most and I do not offer services. I know this guy,does AI for Dairy Herd Improvement. He locates with sticks then uses a plumb bob to determine depth and flow.

Go into your closet, get a wire coat hanger and cut it in half, make two equal size "L,s". Go into your yard where you know a water pipe crosses. Hold the hangers in your fist with the long ends parallel and level. Grip only enough to maintain level. Walk forward very slowly, as you approach the water pipe the arms should begin to cross.

Yeah wacky I know, but I'll bet most peoples can do it. Interpreting the results is the trick.

Go ahead give it a shot and answer back. I can only get hangers to work forks or sticks, nothing.
 
I can't conceive of any reason that it works, unless I witness an example with my own eyes.

If it works in some cases, fine! But I can't see any rhyme or reason for it to work.

IMO, It's akin to voo doo.
 
I had this done when I lived in Idaho, and the person that did the dowsing had never done it before, and was not even familiar with the property. He read articles online on how it worked, and I think that he used a coat hanger; but he might have used a forked branch.
In any case, as we walked over the property, we could see the dowsing rod bending when we hit water, and were actually able to find several places that seemed like they would be a good prospect for a well.
After talking with my neighbors, we learned that there was a large underground river that ran through the property and some of the other nearby properties.
I could feel the dowsing rod moving when I tried it, although I did not seem to do as well as the friend who was actually doing the dowsing for me.
I think that it is something simple, maybe to do with magnetism between the minerals in the water, and in the dowsing rod, and it might make a difference with the magnetism of the person doing the dowsing.
My first husband could not wear a wrist watch because his body magnetism would literally stop the watch. When he got home from work, I would put on the watch (which was no longer running at all) , and soon it would start to work again. Whatever he had that stopped the watch, I had the opposite charge, and it would start the watch again.
I would wear the watch overnight, and the next day, he could wear it for a while until it stopped again during the day. Over the years, he had a lot of different watches, and they all did the same thing; so it was not just something erratic about the one watch.
Unfortunately, my daughter has the same electrical charge as her father, and she stops watches, and some of her other tech gadgets as well. So far, she said her Apple Watch is working fine though.
 
Years ago we had an old fella in our area that would locate water with a freshly cut Y shaped stick.

He never charged for his services but he would accept small gifts if they were offered.

We had him come and dowse a well, he had us try it too. You could definitely feel a strong downward pull in some areas of the property and not in others. I remember he made a crude little joke about finding water when some of the fellas tried it and the stick dipped towards their crotch.

In our case the well never got drilled and even if it had been drilled it would be difficult to know for sure that he had picked the best spot. With modern well drilling equipment it is possible to find water almost anywhere in our area. It is also possible to drill past a good source of water because the drills are so fast and efficient that the well casing can cover a good shallow supply of water. I guess when you get paid by the foot that might not be an accident, LOL!!!
 
It is also possible to drill past a good source of water because the drills are so fast and efficient that the well casing can cover a good shallow supply of water. I guess when you get paid by the foot that might not be an accident, LOL!!!
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Seems the well drillers around here must belong to the same union.!:eek:
 
Way back in the day I worked for a foreman who was a dowser. I hadn't been working there very long and some of the guys I was working with, asked my foreman to give me a demonstration which he did.

As Robusta wrote in the above post, he took two wielding rods and bent them into a L shape, pointed them forward and started walking in our work area. He stopped walking when the two rods crossed each other. We found out later there were some utility lines buried where he had stopped. Was one of them a water line? I don't know for sure but it didn't look like he crossed them on purpose. And he did it a few times with the same result just to make sure. Wow..
 
Robusta said:
Has no one cut any hangers and given it a try yet?
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I have tried it. There was a gang of us out at the golf course that tried it. It didn't work for me. It worked for one other but he was a bit drunk at the time.

There's no scientific reason for it. There's no metal in sticks is there and they are supposed to work just as good as wire.

Unless you dig, there's no proof of anything.

There are wells on the property and they go down really deep. I think if you you go down deep enough anywhere you will find water.
 
In the 1940's, my family lived in the country across from my uncle who was a dowser. He had no phone, so farmers would call us and I'd run across the highway to give him the message. He showed me how he chose the stick, and took me along several times so I could watch. One farmer was so pleased with his work, he gave me a bracelet (which I still have) for being the messenger.
 
I have dowsed many times, using the the 2 wire system,
I wasn't looking for water though, I was looking for buried
electricity cables.

Walking with the wires pointing forward, when I walked over
the buried cable, the wires swung outwards showing the line
that the cable was following.

Dowsing can be used for lots of things, whatever you would
like to find, you need to think about that and only that as you
walk across the area that you are checking.

Old prospectors dowsed for gold, while others dowsed for oil.

It really is uncanny, easy and very interesting but inexplicable.

Mike.
 
It might work. There might be something to it. But it's just not scientific for me.

Its like witchcraft and fortune telling.

Science can make you a full time skeptic. It's not as much fun as believing weird stuff but you are stuck with it.

Conspiracies are more fun.
 
I looked at this for just the same reason, water well, couldn't talk myself into it. Too much Caladesia Florida involved.🤯🤯

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