A pensioner from Northampton says he has solved the mystery of a series of bizarre floods in a row of town homes... by sensing the energy rising from underground streams. Derrick Phillpot, aged 83, says he used a map and a pendulum to trace a watercourse that has been leaking into houses in Argyle Street, St James. Householders have been baffled by the puddles forming in their basements despite one of the hottest summers in the last decade.But Mr Phillpot says the streams can be blocked or diverted by visiting the house and dowsing there. Mr Phillpot, of Billing Road East, said: "I first tried dowsing five years ago by following the instructions in a book. "It works but I don't know how. It just does. "I have dowsed my own back garden and found five underground streams and a stone circle. There are also 14 burials from the time of the plague."
He said he had first dowsed Northampton for underground streams a year earlier and had drawn them all on a map of the town.
When he dowsed again after hearing of the floods he found that an upward-rising spring starting in Bruce Street and running along Harlestone Road had developed a small diversion into Argyle Street.
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