Did you ever hear of the water table?
"Some water exists under the Earth's surface almost everywhere. (bold not in original) This explains why many dowsers are successful," a statement from the U.S. Geological Survey says.
Otherwise there is no way that dowsing for water is any better than simply pointing to the ground anywhere, and drilling - that ultimately finds water.
I've also seen the dowsing process done by many others, and saw it fail, repeatedly.
They use willow here. Most well digging outfits seem to have one on staff. Whether it’s just for show or what, I don’t know, but every house I’ve ever lived in, the well sites were witched, dowsed, whatever. Even the “repair” site for an alternate well site on the plot plan. They didn’t ask me they just did it.
I can do this...as long as there aren’t any pipes in the way.
We use it for cemetery reconstruction and have been very successful in finding blocks of graves.
This past year, we used Ground penetrating radar on one pioneer burial yard and checked it by witching.
When my kids were young, I’d often demonstrate this by having them hide a quarter in the grass of our 1/2 acre lawn, and I’d find it using a forked stick. I’d walk right to it...
Seems to me that it does work, and as an engineer, I have no idea why.
Keep it up and you could wind up paying 15% tithing and being assigned 50 hours a week to get to heaven.
Water witchign and money digging were what FLDS/LDS "Prophet" Joseph Smith did for a living before he started his little cult.
My neighbor handed me a Y shaped branch when I was a kid and son of a gun! We knew there was a water utilty pipe below and it nailed the location.
I did it a few times when I was a kid. Really a weird feeling, using a willow switch, and have that downward tugging keep occuring at the same particular spots. Didn’t seem to work for anybody else around me. But when my grandfather hired an old gent to witch for a place to dig a well, it led to those very same spots that I felt the tugging the day before. Quirky.
When I ws a kid I worked at a filling station. We had to find the water line so we had an old guy come and witch it. He marked it and we got a backhoe in and found the line right off the bat. I’m a believer .
Hubby is a groundwater geologist. He said he saw someone do it first hand. The man told him to try and the same thing happened. it worked
Hubby is a groundwater geologist. He said he saw someone do it first hand. The man told him to try and the same thing happened. it worked
Look up American Society of Dowsers for local ‘support’ groups. They have a Water for Humanity program worth investigating.
USGS is right - water is directly below us. Sometimes thousands of feet below us, other times within a short reach with little flow and bad minerals. Most well-drillers (water) turn to dowsers after using college educated geologists due to the high number of dry holes they found.
Dowsers, on the other hand, don’t need a college education to find good wells. It is a skill endemic to the human population that takes a great deal of humility to work because the key ingredient is ‘imagination’.