Groundwater Information by Topic Learn more. Science Center Objects Overview Related Science Publications "Water dowsing" refers in general to the practice of using a forked stick, rod, pendulum, or similar device to locate underground water, minerals, or other hidden or lost substances, and has been a subject of discussion and controversy for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
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We hope you'll check some out! Hello, Amber! The Wonder states, "water witching, more commonly known as dowsing, is considered a type of divination used to try to locate things that exist underground, including water, oil, precious metals and ores, gemstones, and even buried bodies. Hello, chloe! Thanks for joining the discussion! We appreciate you commenting in response to Sophie's question!
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Water dowsing involves the claim that a person can locate underground sources of water without using any scientific instruments.
Typically, the person that is dowsing holds sticks or rods and walks around a property in the hopes that the rods will dip, twitch, or cross when he walks over the underground water. The dowsing rods do indeed move, but not in response to anything underground. They are simply responding to the random movements of the person holding the rods. The rods are typically held in a position of unstable equilibrium, so that a small movement gets amplified into a big movement.
The movements of the rods do not seem like they are coming from the small vibrations in the dowser's arms, since these vibrations are so small and the rod's movements are so large.
From the false assumption that the movements of the rods are not coming from the small random vibrations of the dowser's arms, people then make the illogical leap that the movements must therefore be caused by something powerful that is out of sight, i.
Since successfully locating underground water can save a farmer the trouble of digging several wells that end up dry, and since scientific approaches can be expensive, there is a strong incentive for people to want water dowsing to work. It took a while to learn how to hold them loosely while balancing them.
I had the opportunity to test them at our 40 acre farm when the pipe between the 2 ponds stopped flowing. I went in and grabbed the copper rods and just like mentioned above the rods would cross when I walked across the area where my husband then excavated and found the line. He cut a branch cut Y and when he found a stream we marked it.
He kept on looking and found another one that was perpendicular to the first. He found out wher they crossed each other then he put the ends in his one hand and held it over where he said they crossed, the end of the Y started bobbing up and down, each bob was a foot. There is an article in our newspaper re: a man finding an ancient cemetary by dousing.
The article is in The News commercial, Wednesday, June21, He says the cemetery located is located on private land near Seminary, Ms. The people buried there are relatives of his. I have been dowsing for 50 years with complete success. I just recently found a misplaced pair of channel locks with a dowsing rod. It led me right to them! Thank you, Michael. Hi, I am a 3rd Generation Water-Witch. I water-witch with my job 3 to 4 days a week. I use a steel wire as my tool.
I find underground water veins. The wire is magnetically attracted to that point. I walk to that point and when I get to the exact point my wire will turn in the direction of the underground water vein. It only work for me, this is the theory that I developed and have studied: 1 Water is a good conductor of electricity 2 The Clay in our Northern Pa. I know it works I use it nearly everyday.
It works over concrete, frozen ground or even during Dry times. Feel free to contact me if anyone should want to talk about the subject. He was never wrong and always found water.
He said when you first felt the willow stick move you counted from there to when it went straight down. This would give you the number of feet you had to go down to hit water. It he was never wrong and the water was always good. I am the only one of six kids that can do it too. Not a lot of call for it in the big city. An old well striker gave me the cut coat hangers l shaped said walk around.
I did all of a sudden they went down. I hollered. He said keep walking at a different. Spot they turned. Outward again I hollered. Gave me chills. I did Alot of exploring over time. Could find water. I tried again when my sister had a piece of farm ground.
Driller came within 2 in of my spot he dowsed also. I think it has to do with magnetics. The village maintenance crew 3 of them were all downers. If they ever failed to find water or pipes no one talked about it. I acquired the skill and it works—sometimes. She showed me how at an early age. Dowsing is an absolute joke. I hired 3 dowsers to witch my property.
Do you think any one of them could agree on a location???? Hell no…. I went with the pick of the most highly recommended dowser. And the hole was dry at feet. Then I drilled were it was most convenient my pick and we hit 20 gallons a minute at feet. None of the dowsers rods or twigs even twitched at this location….
I have no idea as to the reason why, but I seem to be more adept at finding lost graves than water. My grandfather was the water finder and he said use willow for finding water. I used wire for finding the lost graves. My cousin showed me how. He was a whiz on that. But I think he was good at finding anything? I believe those were well drillers,not well diggers. Unless they used shovels. I drilled wells for 45 years. A neighbor was accomplished in this and thought I might be able to do it as well.
He handed me his dowsing rod, which was a forked copper wire, and it worked! He researched the area and it was a water source. It scared my hubby, though, and he asked me not to do it again…. Somewhat superstitious of him, huh? I can witch water and find water lines with forked stick or metal hangers, this begin when I was 9 or 10 years old my grandfather was the one who found where water was for everyone who lived near us or for people who ask him to.
My Grandfarther was a well digger and I saw him use a forked stick from willow trees to find the best place to dig a well. It worked every time. He seemed to think it worked because the live limb needed the water source. Diana fowler… we also have a farm that was owned by old man jones in ohio. Yes he dosed and found and also claimed underground rivers! My husband and I moved upstate n. We needed a well dug and was told that we should use the old local farmer who could easily locate the water source for us.
We contacted him and he came with a hanger wire and took about 20 minutes to locate the water source. Sure enough when the well digger came to dig for the water he only went down 25 feet before he hit a artisian well with water 30 gallons per minute. True Story. There was a local man who used an old pair of slip joint pliers to find water. He would open the pliers pointing them straight up and they would get pulled out of his hands over a good well spot.
He would then hang the pliers from his finger and they would spin around and tell him the depth of the water. It was a strong well and He was only off by 5 feet….
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