Is this your friend?
Posted on 01/11/2008 4:24:40 PM PST by EarlyBird
Did I hear correctly that Sheriff Ed Brown in North Carolina used a divining rod to find the body of Maria Lauterbach (the missing Marine) in the backyard of the suspect? Is this what he said in answer to a question at the latest press conference? Did anyone else hear this?
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http://www.kxmc.com/News/197368.asp
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) The search for the body of a pregnant Marine has investigators focusing on what they call an underground cavity. They've identified a "center of interest" in the backyard of a comrade of Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach who had been accused of rape. The sheriff says they have no plans to look anywhere else. The search has been suspended for the night.
No mention of the divining rod there, but I swear I heard the sheriff say that.
I have a friend who is a sexton and uses something similar to find graves before digging new ones. He says it has to do with magnetism. I don’t know if they really work but I’ve never seen him dig into a pre existing grave.
how many graves have you seen him dig? lol
He’s been a sexton for nearly 25 years and I worked with him for a few years and saw him dig a couple of hundred graves.
I once used brass welding rods to locate iron water pipes buried in the street. A backhoe operator had them and he was using them. I asked how it worked. He showed me and by golly, they work.
I've heard of poking a thin rod into the ground to find cavities that could indicate graves, though.
Yup I heard it....assumed it was a country trick to find voids in the earth for wells graves etc......makes sence if there is a disturbence in the earth the “force” would tend to change
The only time I ever saw a divining rod used to find water to drill a well the guy was sucessfull. We were standing in a swamp when he did it though.
That could be. I have seen it work. Obviously, certain things underground (probably the presence of H2O) will exert a magnetic force.
No my friend isn’t a sextant. LOL
ah, well I’ll have to give it a try one day. apart from college I really have nothing better to do. lol
We have a ranch and have used divining rods to locate irrigation pipes. I have also read that you can locate graves with divining rods. Little known trick used by genealogists.
know of anyway to find gold or cash with a divining rod?
“I once used brass welding rods to locate iron water pipes buried in the street. A backhoe operator had them and he was using them. I asked how it worked. He showed me and by golly, they work.”
Same here. I have since used them to find sprinkler pipes.
I personally know a gent who lives in Foresthill, California who uses divining rods to hunt for gold along the North and Middle Forks of the American River. As he works two or three days a week and drinks beer the rest while living in a 3,000sf home with an old Ford pickup and a Mercedes CLS550 I've never had reason to doubt his abilities.
Not to detract from the point of this thread, but at a family picnic one year the subject of divining rods came up, and my uncle (in his 60's) said "oh, yeh, they work - I use them all the time in construction to find the lines". Since he was a contractor, we started asking him about it. He said he didn't know how it worked, but some people had the power and some didn't. He demonstrated for us (there was a buried pipe that we knew where was to practice on), and sure enough, for some it worked and for some it didn't. Most (but not all) of the blood relatives it worked on, and few of the married relatives. It worked for me, and it was intriguing!
It works for me too. I don’t understand it. I use two metal rods, usually formed metal coat hangers. I used to play around by asking someone to take a quarter, and go hide it under a rug somewhere, then I will go and find it.
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