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Oct 30, 2008 | 04:06 PM

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Ak68F250

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My aunt is very good at water witching. She has found water on the ranch where nobody thought there was. She used green branchs. Haven't tried myself though.

Oct 30, 2008 | 05:16 PM

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When I was a kid my Dad bought a small piece of land in the Willamette Valley. I was maybe 7 at the time so I might not be remembering it all exactly.

Everyone told him that he messed up, because there was no water there. Even the small town we were next too had trouble getting enough water.

He hired a dowser who came out and wandered around with his stick for awhile and told Dad where to drill. They brought the drill in and got an 80GPM well. One of the best wells in the area, good enough that the town offered to buy the well from Dad.

Personally, it doesn't seem right to me. And I've never tried it myself. If I hadn't seen and heard of it working so many times, I wouldn't believe it. But it does work.

Oct 30, 2008 | 05:41 PM

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Yeah, I do it all the time, except I make them out of coat hangers. I cut and bend them L shaped, works like a charm.

Oct 30, 2008 | 06:24 PM

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Dowsing Test; Failure of the Munich Experiments (Skeptical Inquirer January 1999)

Of 500 supposed good dowsers, only 6 were able to show an ability better than random locating, and their deviation from random was about 0.004%, well within statistical definitions of things like this (meaning they were random as well).

I'm raising the wishful thinking BS flag on this.

Oct 30, 2008 | 09:16 PM

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My grand dad claimed to be able to use a "Y" branch I however was never able to make it work. Years later I heard about and tried making finding rods after which I gave them a test and found they actually worked. I can't say it is always 100% but maybe I just didn't always do it right either. I have no special in sites and I have never seen nor expect to see a UFO or other paranormal but those rods work none the less. I at least don't think I was out of my mind at the time I used them.

Oct 31, 2008 | 05:16 AM

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Ken, don't knock it untill you try it. I work construction and we do it all the time to find water lines. It's really not that crazy and just about anyone can do it, all though some can't for whatever reason, alot can, most likely even you. I don't know the science, or don't care, I just know it works. Faith is the act of believing in things unseen, however, this can be seen, it's not hocus pocus. It's been used by the old timmers up to modern man. It used on construction sites all the time.

Oct 31, 2008 | 05:18 AM

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To use a Y branch, it must be from a willow tree I've heard, I just use coat hangers.

Oct 31, 2008 | 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by wendell borror

Ken, don't knock it untill you try it.

I did back in my early 20s --- maybe it didn't work because I didn't believe it would work. In other words, I believe the only thing that works about it is the placebo effect. Not one person here can come up with a single valid scientic reason this would work -- I'm not talking about psuedo science. I feel its no different than knocking on word, 4 leaf clovers, black cats, tossing salt over your shoulder, etc.