Posted on 07/02/2014 6:32:17 AM PDT by Abathar
I'm curious, has anyone else seen someone use a stick to find water before, and do you believe it works?
We sold a piece of property and had to move a well that was on it to another older well we drilled years ago but never used. When we couldn't find the cap with a metal detector the well driller who put it in 20 years ago said we were looking in the wrong place, because there was no water there. He went back to his truck, pulled out a stick, and he and his assistant started walking the property and marking where the stick swung down. He told us that there was a gravel vein running N to S and it had to be in that area, that where our memory told us it was was wrong, and he never would have drilled there.
Long story short, he was within 4 ft. of where the old well was found with that stupid stick and its been screwing with my mind ever since. 3 days ago I would have snorted derisively and and used my best Sheldon Cooper "Hokum" imitation, but now I don't know what to think. Has anyone else seen it work or was he just lucky?
This past year, we did GPR at a burial ground. We checked that by witching. Fascinating!!
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True story:
I ran a survey crew on Guam during the late 50’s. We were laying out water and sewer lines for a housing complex. Every once in awhile we’d “find” an active water line that wqe had no idea was even there. It seems the Seabees had laid lines during the re-occupation of the island but they hadn’t provided a location for future construction.
After several “instant swimming pools”, one of our crewmembers (a graduate engineer from Oklahoma) picked up two pieces of welding rod and walked the line of each proposed new ditch. He found several water lines and after that we wouldn’t let the excavator start digging until he approved the location.
He saved us a ton of money and headaches in the ensuing weeks and months but even he had no idea how it worked - it just worked. The rest of us tried it with varying results. I can’t find water unless I’m standing waist-deep in it.
Well, well well... You have inadvertently created one of the most revealing threads on Free Republic.
An interesting corollary is that although water witching has never, in all the studies done, been proved to work the same could be said of prayer.
In the later case, it clearly does work for some people.
It’s been my experience in life that although we don’t always get what we want, we almost always get what we expect.
...just one of the mysteries of life.
“It’s not magic, but likely physics.”
No, not physics at all.
Secondly, if the first well was sited by an experienced well driller and little changed to the topography, a similarly experienced well driller would likely choose the same location.
The original poster referenced Dr. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory sitcom. The character is supposedly high functioning Asperger’s. Anyway, one of his famous lines is, “I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested.”
Some guys have a talent for it. I’ve seen them go mano-a-mano vs computer model-wielding hydrogeologists - and come out ahead.
The two wire witching technique is reacting to the magnetic properties of the minerals in the water or metal pipes or under ground wires.
No kidding. Wait till the evangelicals find this and start quoting the Bible on sorcery.
Y'all may have water, but you're going to hell. LOL
I’ve seen it done, as well. I haven’t tried it, but my grandfathers told me they found water that way.
But is “water-witching” what the Bible writer meant by divination? I believe that refers to attempts to predict the future by magical powers, usually involving contact with spirit beings.
Subconcious detection of minute magnetic anomalies, or however you prefer to think this process works, does not necessarily involve anything of the kind.
That said, I agree with those who point out that, despite all the anecdotal evidence, there has never been any proof of such abilities found using controlled scientific tests.
Possibly the ability hides when somebody pulls out a notebook. :)
There was no water meter?
“The two wire witching technique is reacting to the magnetic properties of the minerals in the water or metal pipes or under ground wires.”
Any magnetic properties would be too weak for a wire to react to even when directly next to water with minerals in it, but especially through several feet of earth. And it wouldn’t explain how wood sticks would work.
I just did it in my garage and those two wires reacted to an iron I-beam that was five feet over my head, and then tried it walking over a 50 lb iron dumbbell where again the two wires crossed. It works.
absolutely, my grandfather witched with a y shaped willow switch and dug wells I once saw the bark peel off the switch in his hands as it turned.
Water witching is real. There is no scientific explanation.
You have to see it to believe it.
Native Americans excel at finding water with forked sticks. I was a skeptic too, until I saw the “witch” not only find the well, but pace it off and tell us how deep to drill.
Some unexplainable force pulls the stick down to the ground over the water. When they back up, the stick comes back up. When they go over the water source, it comes back down again. I made the witch do this over and over and I had my fingers on the stick as he witched the well. The force of the pull was unmistakable, and quite strong.
He made a pile of rocks to mark the spot.
The water has been sweet and plentiful for 30 years.
“It’s not magic, but likely physics.”
No, not physics at all.
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If you are going to refute someone, use facts. If it’s not physics, what is it? Why?
Don’t just whine like a 3 year old. Prove your point, at least anecdotally, or don’t make it at all.
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