UM-Bot Posted July 29, 2021 #1 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Can dowsers really find water sources using nothing but a wooden stick or is dowsing a centuries-long con ? https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/349260/water-witches-pit-science-against-folklore 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esoteric_toad Posted July 29, 2021 #2 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Seriously, the jury is not out. Dowsing is nonsense. 3 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Buzz_Light_Year Posted July 29, 2021 Popular Post #3 Share Posted July 29, 2021 1 hour ago, esoteric_toad said: Seriously, the jury is not out. Dowsing is nonsense. No it isn't. I can do it and I can also find underground electric and sewer lines. I have known at least 3 besides myself that have the ability to do this. Don't ask me how I do it or how it works because I haven't a clue. 8 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted July 29, 2021 #4 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I believe there i something real to dowsing like I believe a lot of other things that don't belong in a materialist paradigm. What the bleep do we know. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wreck7 Posted July 29, 2021 #5 Share Posted July 29, 2021 It works. I use two bent steel rods held loosely. You can find whatever you're looking for. Have someone hide a quarter under a cup with two or three empty ones. Think "quarter" and the rods will cross over that cup. Use them to find water by thinking "water" then then ask yourself "how deep" walk away from the spot until the rods cross again and that's your depth. Try it. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twin Posted July 29, 2021 #6 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I'm not to sure I fully grasp the meaning of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twin Posted July 29, 2021 #7 Share Posted July 29, 2021 (edited) I'm not to sure I fully grasp the meaning of: In a region of adequate rainfall and favorable geology, it is difficult not to drill and find water!" Anyway, Ive seen it done and it worked Edited July 29, 2021 by Twin only first line showed up in my comment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701 Posted July 29, 2021 #8 Share Posted July 29, 2021 If it worked, dowsers would be rich people. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted July 29, 2021 #9 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Put to the test, it fails. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillmanjoe Posted July 29, 2021 #10 Share Posted July 29, 2021 my parents did it on their property in the ozarks and found a natural spring. during some parts of the year it runs as hard as a kitchen faucet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knob Oddy Posted July 30, 2021 #11 Share Posted July 30, 2021 I've seen it done to find water mains. No proof other than my eyes. I had some old plans of the mains i was trying to find and when the city council contractors turned up, dug a few holes where my plans showed the main, then started dowsing and found the main we were looking for about 10 meters away on the other side of a driveway. Dug once, hit the main spot on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trihalo42 Posted July 31, 2021 #12 Share Posted July 31, 2021 The science is that impure water, a conductor, moving across the earth's magnetic field results in ionization (static). It's like passing a straight piece of wire over a magnet. That ionization is best detected in very dry conditions, which is usually why people are looking for water in the first place. The two metal rods technique is simply static in the air causing the rods to move together. Any kind of grounding, like morning dew, will disrupt the effect. The same technique can be used to locate PVC water mains without tracer wire or having tracer tape that has broken down over the years, as long as the water is flowing. Same goes for electrical lines, but that should be obvious. The reason it's a suppressed technology is that an electric potential can exist between a dry ground, like a car body, and the static field generated. Such a device usually consists of a metal rod or pipe sunk into water moving underground, a dry ground, and some sort of static buffer between, which can be layers of styrofoam and "steel wool" or simply a large ball of regular wool, and has no moving parts other than the water. The devices do tend to draw lightning. The reason for suppressing it is the psychotic need to control how we get electricity, which included the burning of Tesla's tower. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted November 14, 2021 #13 Share Posted November 14, 2021 I was about to write something similar I've learnt in high school during a chemistry class. There is real science behind this practice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oniomancer Posted November 14, 2021 #14 Share Posted November 14, 2021 I'm mentioned before my father used to do this as part of his plumbing job. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiXilver Posted November 15, 2021 #15 Share Posted November 15, 2021 It absolutely works. I've had the experience of witnessing the process more than once. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted November 15, 2021 #16 Share Posted November 15, 2021 On 7/31/2021 at 1:37 PM, Trihalo42 said: The science is that impure water, a conductor, moving across the earth's magnetic field results in ionization (static). It's like passing a straight piece of wire over a magnet. That ionization is best detected in very dry conditions, which is usually why people are looking for water in the first place. The two metal rods technique is simply static in the air causing the rods to move together. Any kind of grounding, like morning dew, will disrupt the effect. The same technique can be used to locate PVC water mains without tracer wire or having tracer tape that has broken down over the years, as long as the water is flowing. Same goes for electrical lines, but that should be obvious. The reason it's a suppressed technology is that an electric potential can exist between a dry ground, like a car body, and the static field generated. Such a device usually consists of a metal rod or pipe sunk into water moving underground, a dry ground, and some sort of static buffer between, which can be layers of styrofoam and "steel wool" or simply a large ball of regular wool, and has no moving parts other than the water. The devices do tend to draw lightning. The reason for suppressing it is the psychotic need to control how we get electricity, which included the burning of Tesla's tower. For the gods know what reason, while reading your post, I had to think of Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DanL Posted November 28, 2021 #17 Share Posted November 28, 2021 I have known several plumbers that would douse to locate pipes and such. Their accuracy was so good that it pretty well eliminated doubt that they could do it. I can't totally explain it but I am talking about people that did this on an almost daily basis. I worked with one of them one summer when I was a teenager. He was a nice guy but totally lacked a sense of humor. I can't see him doing it as a joke at all. He did it all the time and was almost never wrong. The one time that he was wrong he dug up an old pipe that was no longer in use and so not the one he was looking for. It is like a metal detector. I can't clearly explain in detail to you HOW they work but CAN assure you that they do. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Walker Posted November 28, 2021 #18 Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) On 7/30/2021 at 8:21 AM, NCC1701 said: If it worked, dowsers would be rich people. In Australia many of them are. Professional dowsers here charge from a few hundred dollars a day to around 500 for individuals and more when finding water for big corporations like mining or pastoral companies Of course, some of the old timers still do it for a carton of beer ( which s still over $50) Ive seen a professional dowser find water on an outback station property Not only did he find it but he described the depth and the layers of water (eg saline and fresh ) which would have to be drilled to There were no geological indicators of underground water and no current maps of any existence of them. That said, he searched and found the underground water where one might expect an underground aquifer to be. ie under a slight valley, on an otherwise very flat plain The water made the property more viable for sheep and cattle, and increased profits markedly. Until then, water had been sourced from a surface spring and dam about 10 miles away, which was good enough for animals , but not as reliable The dowser was very well paid. I remember this well, as I was later helping my brother in law unload long drill casings from a truck, for this location, when a couple of them slid off from the top of the load. One hit me on the head, and knocked me out very briefly,, but we kept on unloading . Edited November 29, 2021 by Mr Walker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Wellington Posted November 29, 2021 #19 Share Posted November 29, 2021 On 7/29/2021 at 1:06 PM, UM-Bot said: Can dowsers really find water sources using nothing but a wooden stick or is dowsing a centuries-long con ? https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/349260/water-witches-pit-science-against-folklore I recon its real so long as the water is near to the surface. Water carries a EM charge so if you wanted over it with a magnet you would notice it affect the magnet. The effect would be smaller with a stick, but someone still might be able to feel it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harte Posted November 29, 2021 #20 Share Posted November 29, 2021 34 minutes ago, Cookie Monster said: I recon its real so long as the water is near to the surface. Water carries a EM charge so if you wanted over it with a magnet you would notice it affect the magnet. The effect would be smaller with a stick, but someone still might be able to feel it. Water doesn't carry a charge. Nor does running water create any electromagnetic field. Harte 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Wellington Posted November 29, 2021 #21 Share Posted November 29, 2021 16 hours ago, Harte said: Water doesn't carry a charge. Nor does running water create any electromagnetic field. Harte The Hydrogen atoms have a positive charge, the oxygen a negative. Its why a stream of water out the tap twists, why it rotates down the plug hole, why holding a magnet near a stream of water repels or attracts it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harte Posted November 29, 2021 #22 Share Posted November 29, 2021 No. It's not. Harte 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted November 30, 2021 #23 Share Posted November 30, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zep73 Posted November 30, 2021 #24 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, Cookie Monster said: The Hydrogen atoms have a positive charge, the oxygen a negative. No they don't. An atom can only be positively charged if it's missing electrons, which H2O never does, and if it's negatively charged it's called ionization, which does not happen to pure water. Only minerals (impurities) in the water can be ionized. Pure water isn't even electrically conducting. Quote Its why a stream of water out the tap twists, why it rotates down the plug hole Wrong again. That is caused by the Earth's magnetic core. North of the equator it turns one way, south it turns the other. So do storms. Edited November 30, 2021 by zep73 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Walker Posted December 6, 2021 #25 Share Posted December 6, 2021 On 11/30/2021 at 12:16 PM, zep73 said: No they don't. An atom can only be positively charged if it's missing electrons, which H2O never does, and if it's negatively charged it's called ionization, which does not happen to pure water. Only minerals (impurities) in the water can be ionized. Pure water isn't even electrically conducting. Wrong again. That is caused by the Earth's magnetic core. North of the equator it turns one way, south it turns the other. So do storms. I think it is the Coriolis effect of the earths rotation. Cyclones and winds have the same patterns. In the southern hemisphere they bend to the left, and in the northern hemisphere they bend to the right There is some argument that the coriolis effect is too weak to affect water going down a drain, yet in the northern hemisphere it goes one way and in the southern hemisphere it goes the opposite way you can 'force" the water to spin the other way, but it will always return to the same rotation If its not coriolis, then its something similar, to do with the earth's spin Ps whatever the maths/physics on this i have observed it in hundreds of sinks and baths in Australia over a period of almost 70 years I dont know about the northern hemisphere, but I've NEVER seen water spin " the wrong way" unless you spin it with your finger. Then It will rotate that way for a short time before reverting to the original spin direction. Maybe it's the configuration of taps or drains but, in Australia, 100 % of the times that i have observed it, the water has spun the same way in showers, toilets, baths, and sinks, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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