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I've tried water witching but have never been successful. I had two friends that were phenomenal at it. I think my wife may have what is necessary to douse but she knows nothing about how its done. I'd like to see a discussion of witching and how you do it, if you are willing to divulge your secrets. I don't need an argument of does it work or not work. I have a degree in physics and worked as an engineer for 30 years. I should be skeptical but I've seen it work. A friend, also an engineer, had 100% success in the Colorado mountains and that includes telling how deep the water would be found and the flow rate. Unfortunately he succumbed to cancer several years ago but he did tell me a bit about how he did it years before. The other friend got to the point where he threw away the sticks because he said he could feel the presence of water in his body. I tested him on two water sites known to me but not to him and he hit them both. This was in his early days of learning to douse. Both guys were very religious and both stopped dousing due to fears it was a satanic power. I see it as a gift not a satanic power.
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It seems that some can & some can't ..I have done it several times ,,As a teen ,,a dowser pointed us to a vein of water under our new house ,,without knowing where the water was I was able to duplicate what he did ,,,To this day ,30 years or more later ,,still using that well ,every one else in the neighborhod had bad ,rusty water (eventually needed city water )..not us ...He used two "L" shaped coat hangers ,held loosely in his hands . Over water ,they would cross each other ..
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Me too. Years ago I went over to a friend's place and he and another friend were dousing for a water line with two pieces of 3/16" gas welding rod bent at 90 degree angles. After I quit laughing at them, they made me take the rods and walk across a flat pad about 80' X 120' that had been dozered flat. Halfway across, I could see and feel the rods turning inward. I went back and forth a time or two and it happened each time. Then they showed me two unused faucet connections stubbed off at ground level at each side diagonally across the cleared pad. Damnest thing I ever experienced, I was right over where the underground PVC line had to be when the rods turned in.
There was a local highway department self-made "grandfathered in" engineer who was very well-respected and had a write-up in the local paper regarding his dousing abilities. He was hired by various gov't agencies, well drillers, land owners, etc, for finding water locations during his off time from the highway dept. I knew him well enough to corner him one day and pick his brain after I told him my experience at my friend's place. To sum it up, unfortunately he said he couldn't figure it out either, it just seems to work for some people.
I'm like you, I'd really like to learn more about it from people that know way more about it than me.
My neighbor has a 99% success rate. Seeds are available to grow your own dousing tree. Or you can buy organically grown dousing forks. He uses the pure water to run his car.
I've seen it work too. When i was demonstrating it to my friend once, the sprinklers came on in my yard and the two bent coat hangers started spinning around all over. It was pretty nuts. I wonder who was the first person who tried that out...
My friend had a fellow douse or "witchin for water" as we call it for his well. Fellow stopped on the way there and plucked a couple small branches off of a cherry tree. Walked around the property and when the branches crossed several times in the same location he stopped, and held them loosely until they crossed on their own. He did this several times and they stopped. He looked at my buddy and said "right here, 32 feet down is a good vein." When the well driller showed up 3 weeks he hit water at 31 feet. I don't now how but I find it extremely interesting.
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When I was a child, my dad took me one day to see the local public works guy douse. He was looking for a water main. I think he found it dousing. I tried it out in our basement to find sewer lines under the concrete floor, the lines were where the coat hangers I fashioned into dousing rods crossed. So who knows.
As far as science goes, there are are a lot things science can't explain at the moment. You got to remember life spent millions of year evolving in water before emerging onto land. If birds can sense magnetic north, maybe we retain a sense deep down inside the primitive brain core regarding water. Or it could just be a charlaton act like rain making.
What a lot of you are talking about as far as using wires or whatever will work on any trench that has disturbed the earths crust and not just water. I have used this method for utility lines quite a bit and it does work, you just don't know for sure what is down there or how deep. Whoever says that they can tell you the depth has either dug a hole to find it or is just guessing. By the way here is a LINK to a little bit more expensive one besides coat hangers or copper wires.
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What I find most interesting is that even immediately after being unable to demonstrate the gift, these people still insist they have the gift.
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Weird coincidence regarding this thread. Yesterday I happened to stop the remote on Heartland Highways show on the RFDTV channel. They were featuring two older retired guys in Ill. who go around restoring small uncared for neglected cemeteries for their historic value. If the headstones are buried and hidden they matter-of-factly mentioned that they douse the graves with 3/16" brazing rods. As it showed them doing it, they said they go one way, then the other numerous times and depending on when the rods turn (to get a measurement), they can determine whether it's a child's grave or adult size.
this works is because of the "energy" or "force fields" water and other objects or bodys produce. These "force fields" can at times be photographed.
Some folks just are more "in tune" than others and metal rods work very easy for them.
Then there are a few who are much more "in tune" than all of us and may be just plain gifted.
The old timers say that a person that has the "gift" never charge for finding water, because this gift is from God and to be shared by all.
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Some things just cannot be explained. A good friend of mine that I went through grade K-12 with is an amazing musician. When he was in grade school he could pick up nearly any type of musical instrument and play it right away by sound with no previous training. He almost flunked high school but had the gift for music almost since a few years old according to his parents.
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