Water/gold diviner

[mellowyellow]

Bob Biggs claims he has the ability to divine for gold, water and other minerals.(ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)

Bob Biggs has had a nose for gold since he was a teenager when he worked underground on Western Australia's historic Gwalia mine before it closed in 1963. Now 84, the retired boilermaker and pastoralist is one of only a handful of water diviners remaining in WA. But Mr Biggs, who now lives in Mundijong in Perth's outer suburbs, is also a self-described gold diviner. He readily admits that "99 out of 100" people are sceptics who brush off the bush art as a parlour trick…..

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-29/water-diviner-bob-biggs-says-he-can-divine-for-gold/13084288

 

[Aunt Marg]

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Bob Biggs claims he has the ability to divine for gold, water and other minerals.(ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)

Bob Biggs has had a nose for gold since he was a teenager when he worked underground on Western Australia's historic Gwalia mine before it closed in 1963. Now 84, the retired boilermaker and pastoralist is one of only a handful of water diviners remaining in WA. But Mr Biggs, who now lives in Mundijong in Perth's outer suburbs, is also a self-described gold diviner. He readily admits that "99 out of 100" people are sceptics who brush off the bush art as a parlour trick…..

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-29/water-diviner-bob-biggs-says-he-can-divine-for-gold/13084288

I remember watching a show on a mother and son (the son just a young little whipper-snapper), anyhow, wanting to find a long dead and gone relative at a cemetery, the mother and son were introduced to diving rods to use to find the long lost and overgrown gravesite, and sometime after dark the mother and son entered the cemetery, and with diving rods in her boys hands, they started searching.

Long story short, the diving rods had summoned demons and evil spirits from the graves and the boy became possessed with evil. It was so creepy and based on a true happening.

Edited to correct spelling.

 

[mellowyellow]

I remember watching a show on a mother and son (the son just a young little whipper-snapper), anyhow, wanting to find a long dead and gone relative at a cemetery, the mother and son were introduced to diving rods for find the long lost and overgrown gravesite, and sometime after dark the mother and son entered the cemetery, and with diving rods in her boys hands, they started searching.

Long story short, the diving rods had attracted demons and evil from the graves and the boy became possessed with evil. It was so creepy and based on a true happening.

Good grief! That's very creepy.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Good grief! That's very creepy.

It truly is, Mellow.

It now makes me think about divining rods in a different way.

 

[RadishRose]

That was an interesting article MY, but I don't put any belief in it myself.

 

[Pecos]

I had a young sailor on Okinawa who used divining rods to locate long buried antenna feed cables. He used a pair of bent clothes hangers, and he could do it every time. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw him do it.

There are many, many things that I simply cannot explain. This is one of them.

 

[Aunt Marg]

That was an interesting article MY, but I don't put any belief in it myself.

Well drilling outfits in our area at times rely on dowsing to locate ideal drilling sites for homeowners.

 

[Gaer]

I hired a deviner with a forked willow branch to choose where I should dig my well, when I lived in Colorado. I only had to go down 12 feet!
I KNOW they work!

 

[Sunny]

I loved the part that said, "If you're negative the wire or chain won't work for you … if you've got a negative attitude toward something it won't work," he said. So since his little scam obviously never works, he can always blame it on his audience's negative attitude.

That nonsense about divining rods (it's divining, Aunt Marg, not diving rods) has been around for literally centuries. This guy admits that 99% of people don't believe any of it, but there's always the one born every minute, I guess. And the kid being possessed by demons and evil spirits, yikes, maybe a good Halloween story for easily scared 9-year-olds?

 

[Aunt Marg]

I loved the part that said, "If you're negative the wire or chain won't work for you … if you've got a negative attitude toward something it won't work," he said. So since his little scam obviously never works, he can always blame it on his audience's negative attitude.

That nonsense about divining rods (it's divining, Aunt Marg, not diving rods) has been around for literally centuries. This guy admits that 99% of people don't believe any of it, but there's always the one born every minute, I guess. And the kid being possessed by demons and evil spirits, yikes, maybe a good Halloween story for easily scared 9-year-olds?

Well, Sunny, so far 3 of us have been born, Pecos, Gaer, and myself.

 

[Jules]

Years ago we hired a local diviner. She swore she was 100% accurate. After spending a fortune drilling exactly where she stomped her foot, the only thing we got was a big invoice. Since the ex never went back to her, she probably still claimed she was 100%. It was a very small town. She would have heard about the results.

I hired a deviner with a forked willow branch to choose where I should dig my well, when I lived in Colorado. I only had to go down 12 feet!
I KNOW they work!

Could anyone have missed it when it’s that shallow?

 

[Aunt Bea]

I believe but I think it had much more value in the days of locating a likely spot for shallow dug wells than it does with today's high-powered drilling equipment.

 

[Dana]

I loved the part that said, "If you're negative the wire or chain won't work for you … if you've got a negative attitude toward something it won't work," he said. So since his little scam obviously never works, he can always blame it on his audience's negative attitude.

That nonsense about divining rods (it's divining, Aunt Marg, not diving rods) has been around for literally centuries. This guy admits that 99% of people don't believe any of it, but there's always the one born every minute, I guess. And the kid being possessed by demons and evil spirits, yikes, maybe a good Halloween story for easily scared 9-year-olds?

I loved the part that said, "If you're negative the wire or chain won't work for you … if you've got a negative attitude toward something it won't work," he said. So since his little scam obviously never works, he can always blame it on his audience's negative attitude.

That nonsense about divining rods (it's divining, Aunt Marg, not diving rods) has been around for literally centuries. This guy admits that 99% of people don't believe any of it, but there's always the one born every minute, I guess. And the kid being possessed by demons and evil spirits, yikes, maybe a good Halloween story for easily scared 9-year-olds?

Haha yes! This scam has been in existence forever! Shame people still fall for it

 

[tbeltrans]

I loved the part that said, "If you're negative the wire or chain won't work for you … if you've got a negative attitude toward something it won't work," he said. So since his little scam obviously never works, he can always blame it on his audience's negative attitude.

That nonsense about divining rods (it's divining, Aunt Marg, not diving rods) has been around for literally centuries. This guy admits that 99% of people don't believe any of it, but there's always the one born every minute, I guess. And the kid being possessed by demons and evil spirits, yikes, maybe a good Halloween story for easily scared 9-year-olds?

While I can't disagree with your assessment, your post reminds me that in the Bible, the disciples tried to heal people and couldn't. Jesus said "oh ye of little faith" (though probably in Hebrew or something...). In other words, he said that they didn't believe enough to make it happen. Whether that Biblical story is true/accurate or not, it does point up that this seems to have been at least a philosophical issue for people for a very long time.

Tony

 

[Sunny]

Tbeltrans, I don't believe that something appearing in the Bible makes it true. The Bible has more fairy tales than probably any book ever written.

The language that Jesus probably spoke was Aramaic, not Hebrew.

In the Book of Matthew, starting with 8:23, Jesus and his disciples were in a boat, when a tremendous storm came up, and waves swept over the boat. The disciples were afraid they were going to drown, but Jesus asked the disciples, "Oh ye of little faith, why are you so afraid?" and rebuked the wind and the waves, making them calm down. The disciples were amazed that he could even control nature.

I don't really see any connection between this and some self-proclaimed gold diviner claiming that his magic stick only works when people have a "positive attitude" about it. Any magician could make that claim, and I'm sure some do.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Tbeltrans, I don't believe that something appearing in the Bible makes it true. The Bible has more fairy tales than probably any book ever written.

The language that Jesus probably spoke was Aramaic, not Hebrew.

In the Book of Matthew, starting with 8:23, Jesus and his disciples were in a boat, when a tremendous storm came up, and waves swept over the boat. The disciples were afraid they were going to drown, but Jesus asked the disciples, "Oh ye of little faith, why are you so afraid?" and rebuked the wind and the waves, making them calm down. The disciples were amazed that he could even control nature.

I don't really see any connection between this and some self-proclaimed gold diviner claiming that his magic stick only works when people have a "positive attitude" about it. Any magician could make that claim, and I'm sure some do.

I'll second that!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I have a hard time believing a guy with a coat hanger has "mystical abilities".

 

[fmdog44]

Believe what you want to believe, beliefs are more important then opinions and much easier to listen to.