Yes I’ve seen it. It’s real.
Maybe he knew where it was and was messing with you.
A priest, rabbi and minister went fishing in a boat on a lake. The priest said that he was thirsty, stood up, stepped out of the boat and walked across the water to shore where he purchased a can of soda. After he returned in the same manner the minister thought the soda was a good idea so he also stepped out of the boat and walked on the water to shore for a soda. After he returned the rabbbi decided to follow their exampled. He took one step out of the boat and promptly sank out of sight.
The priest turned to the minister. “I guess we should have told him where the rocks were.”
Gotta weigh in here...
I’m a Christ follower, so I’m not going to attribute this to anything supernatural. I believe it’s entirely something to do with body chemistry/electrical makeup.
I can do it. I hold wires which cross when I walk across a buried water line. I don’t know if it is detecting the water, but it works for plastic pipe, not just metal.
And, here’s the weird thing - everyone that is descended from my father can do it - my siblings, but not my mom; my children and nieces and nephews, but not my wife or my siblings’ spouses.
Grandfather on mom’s side could and he was always in demand. He was just about 100% accurate.
He was also a top notch accountant, scrabble player, and church going guy.
It’s real, I’ve done it. When the stick swings in your hand you’ll know to.
I prefer steel gas welding rods or copper electrical wire. I never could get wood to work. Some people can find lost jewelry, electric lines, water line, water flowing underground... Some people can tell how deep it is to water and even how much water is down there. I can’t. I don’t know how it works or why most people can’t do it.
It works. I can find underground tile lines with 2 pieces of #9 wire; one held in each hand. Cut them about 3 foot long, bend one end in a L shape for a handle.
Just hold them loosely straight out and walk. When they cross you are over water or a tile line.
Walk a bunch of times in a grid pattern with a can of spray paint to mark, and its pretty accurate.
Not sure why it works; guessing some type of magnetic or electrical reason.
Many years ago I built a house. When it came time to hook up the water the plumber couldn’t find where the city had put the feed. The contractor took two wires about a foot long and bent them 90 degrees in the middle. He then started walking around the yard holding 1 end of each wire in each hand with the other pointing forward. As he walked over the driveway the wires crossed about a foot from the edge. He got a shovel and there it was.
I have tried it since and it works. No idea why.
A few years back, there was a broken water main near where I live.
It had broken and flowed underground to emerge from a spot that was downhill.
The water dept came out and started checking things out, one of them took a necklace from around his neck. He held it in a swinging position, and started walking back and forth.
So I said to one of the guys, “Hey, I work with computers, I’m supposed to believe that?”
The guy I asked says “He NEVER misses! Keep your eyes on him”
Pretty soon the guy swinging the necklace says “Here!” and points to the ground.
They dug it up, and sure as crap, the break was there.
My water was on about 1/2 hour later.
I never doubted it since then.
I’ve seen this done successfully.
Years ago, we purchased a cabin property next to our house at the lake. We wanted to locate the septic so a water well came by with two coat hanger wires bent to an “L” shape.
He walked across the yard and I watched as the two wires crossed right over the septic tank. To confirm the find, he walked across from another direction and the wires responded at the same spot.
It’s real. Very real.
I can prove it. Please send your account number/pin and I’ll email you the proof.
A friend and I were visiting his grandmother—gosh, almost 40 years ago—and she started talking about dowsing. She got a forked stick and showed me how to hold it, with the point sticking up and the forks bent apart with a little tension, like a spring. Then she pointed me out into her yard. I don’t know how it worked or if it’s all psychological , but that stick moved when I got to a certain spot, the point pulling down toward the ground. She said there was a flooded mine shaft down there. I’m a skeptic by nature, but I’ll never forget the feel of that stick twisting in my hand.
“In controlled tests, dowsing fails every time.”
Don’t believe it for many reasons that would upset some.
Area’s top well driller has drilled 4 wells for us......swore to the method.....then added, “I know there’s water there - you can tell by the groove in the land there is a fracture below. First well was 500’ that delivered a quart a minute.....duh......
Also, no fracture......all 500’ was shale so black it looked like coal - and some of the nation’s first coal mines are 1/2 mile from us........
I picked two other sites. All were the same shale. He picked 4th site, but it was only 40’ from a 600’ well that he drilled 7 years earlier that had run dry.....
Trouble is all anyone has is anecdotal evidence - no scientific research has ever been done to verify the method......
Joe Birman, a noted glaciologist who was my geology professor said that water witching is, of course, baloney, and he expressed amazement that so many people believed in it.
I was taught witching by the County electrician in my first job - I was assisting him for the week by digging for buried power lines - he witched the parking lot and then assisted me - we dug his hole...nothing we dug my hole - nothing - we dug in between them and found the buried line....now either he had an inclination by seeing previous construction blu prints or it was legit - Im still not sold on it.
I feel a little better now, thanks.
I was ready to put on my asbestos undies when I posted this because I figured most of you would have a good joke at my expense, but your relies makes me think that mom didn’t need to have me tested either.
It seems to be real but I’m not going to guess why.