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10/05/2006 01:39:14 AM · #1 |
this is the local cemetery director dowsing for coffins in a plot with no markers. one of the photo requests i received was for a 5 yr. old who died at the orphanage in the mid-1800's. we walked the plot and he and i both used the rods to determine the location of the shortest coffin and have to assume that it was for a child. even stranger than using the rods to find a coffin is that by holding one rod you could determine if it was male or female by the direction it pointed.
very weird feeling holding those dowsing rods and having them turn when you approached the end of a coffin then turn back after walking to the other end.
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10/05/2006 01:42:55 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by sher9204:
even stranger than using the rods to find a coffin is that by holding one rod you could determine if it was male or female by the direction it pointed. |
I wonder if that's explainable with the science level we currently have today? Interesting. |
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10/05/2006 01:48:00 AM · #3 |
Thats my new teammate for WPL3, you guys better watch out or she'll put a curse on your score, LOL.
Seriously, that is interesting stuff. What are the dowsing rods exactly? are the just bent metal?
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10/05/2006 01:54:30 AM · #4 |
| I remember reading that in the old days, people used to use some sort of rod to detect water buried underground too - before they dig a well |
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10/05/2006 02:08:02 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by crayon:
I remember reading that in the old days, people used to use some sort of rod to detect water buried underground too - before they dig a well |
true. My mom actually did this at our cabin in the Colorado Rockies, we had to dig for quite a while until we came across a good amount of water, it wasn't enough for a well but who knows what we could have found with a backhoe or real equipment. You can also use a Y shaped branch, you hold the two ^ parts loosely and it will start to point down when it detects water. Not sure how it does it but it does.
I wonder if the difference in water or soil makeup in the graves makes these things effective there....ummm.
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10/05/2006 03:13:33 AM · #6 |
yep, the dowsing rods were just bent metal rods. in fact, the director made these himself.
he explained to me that the way it works is that it can detect an interruption in the magnetic field. not sure how it detects gender, though. he said he also uses them to detect water and gas lines.
my mom was with me and she tried it but it wouldn't work for her. wonder why it works for some people and not for others?
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10/05/2006 03:26:54 AM · #7 |
I've done it for water and it does work. Believe me, I was a TOTAL skeptic! My daughter disbelieved as well, so we set up a blind test for her, and she was successful too.
The rods/stick/whatever merely magnify our body's minute reactions to what's under our feet.
Now I'm curious to test it out in a cemetery.... |
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10/05/2006 03:47:36 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
The rods/stick/whatever merely magnify our body's minute reactions to what's under our feet. |
so the spot we should dig (for the well) is the spot where we are standing, or the spot where the sticks/rods are pointing at? |
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10/05/2006 04:21:09 AM · #9 |
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10/05/2006 01:06:08 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by goodman:
sounds divine to me ;) |
lol...ya nut :P
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10/05/2006 02:06:31 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by crayon:
I remember reading that in the old days, people used to use some sort of rod to detect water buried underground too - before they dig a well |
People still do it...at least people I know have done it. They called it witching for water. Never heard of anyone doing it in a graveyard. Be interesting to see...
Message edited by author 2006-10-05 14:07:53. |
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10/05/2006 08:48:29 PM · #12 |
that is so cool...
My friend just had a vision/dream that there was fresh water on the land where she is living... (a natural community of people who are seeking to live off the grid)
anyway she participated with someone witching for water and they found an underground stream on the property MUY KOOL!!!
These old ways are unfortunately being lost.. I'd love to learn more about plants/herbs/witching/healing.. I'd love to own the "old knowledge" in my heart and memory :)
Sher I'd love to learn more about your experience..thats awesome
:)
Message edited by author 2006-10-05 21:36:37. |
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10/05/2006 09:33:08 PM · #13 |
| One of my father's old army buddies (actually, he was our neighbour for a couple of years) came to our house (a different one, thirty years after he was out neighbour). He divined the basement floor because of our flooding problem in heavy rain and where an underground river flowed. |
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10/05/2006 09:40:01 PM · #14 |
| I was shown how to use this method in an old opal mine in Cooberpedie (to look vfor the opal vein). |
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10/05/2006 10:12:24 PM · #15 |
My 5D comes with a little piece of metal that divines a ribbon. I just shoot where it points...
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10/05/2006 11:41:14 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
My 5D comes with a little piece of metal that divines a ribbon. I just shoot where it points... |
show off!
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10/05/2006 11:42:41 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by dr_timbo:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
My 5D comes with a little piece of metal that divines a ribbon. I just shoot where it points... |
show off! |
Actually I was trying to find an indirect way to say I think this is a bunch of baloney... ;) |
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10/05/2006 11:46:42 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by sher9204:
He said he also uses them to detect water and gas lines. |
Yep, it really works for water too. That's how we found wells at both of our houses...except the 'witcher' (sp?) used a 'Y' shaped branch...willow maybe? Not sure. Never heard of it being used for coffins though. Strange.
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10/05/2006 11:47:00 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by dr_timbo:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
My 5D comes with a little piece of metal that divines a ribbon. I just shoot where it points... |
show off! |
Actually I was trying to find an indirect way to say I think this is a bunch of baloney... ;) |
um...what is baloney? the divining?
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10/06/2006 12:06:18 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by dr_timbo:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
My 5D comes with a little piece of metal that divines a ribbon. I just shoot where it points... |
show off! |
Actually I was trying to find an indirect way to say I think this is a bunch of baloney... ;) |
Doc, that's what I always thought. I'm one of those who wants to see and do for myself before I'm convinced. I don't know about bodies, but it DOES work for water!
My first experience was when I was working on a reconstruction site and we were laying an irrigation line. We had to find where the water line ran under the road but using the utility co. diagrams and digging at roadside got us nowhere. One of the older workers shaped some copper rods about the thickness of coathanger. L-shaped, about 14 inches by 4.
The rods are held one in each hand, then the clenched hands are placed together with thumbs touching and rods parallel.
We then walked slowly in a grid pattern until the tips of the rods crossed. Some of us had a reaction, some had none, and we all scoffed because we were probably 15 to 20 feet from where the water line should be. But when we dug, lo and behold, it WAS there!
I was still skeptical, so asked another who knew where the water lines ran within the property to help me out. I had no idea where these lines were, but walked until the rods reacted. It was confirmed that I was, indeed, over the water main for the grounds.
My daughter, DPC's Becky-Lee had the same "baloney" reaction, until I fashioned some rods and she tried the same blind test, with the same reaction. The males in the household don't seem to be as "sensitive".
It really is bizarre, and I have nooooooooo explanation for how or why, but I KNOW that some people CAN sense underground water. I've done it! |
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10/06/2006 12:32:53 AM · #21 |
We used to do this on my grandpas farm to find pipes, etc when I was a kid. Used to large copper rods for it.
I started using it when I worked landscaping and sprinkler repair. My boss didn't believe it worked till I showed him. He still uses it now.
There is a old gentleman out in a little small town (Joes, CO) that has been doing this for MANY, MANY years finding and plotting a large area of his land that was an indian village. It is pretty remarkable. He has also found many artifacts doing this there also.
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10/06/2006 12:54:44 AM · #22 |
| I wonder why we still need doctors to diagnose medical conditions... or metal detectos in the airports, or in the army to look for mines. Looks like there is a universal device that can find anything one is looking for. Oh, it also can respond to simple binary (yes/no) queries (e.g. male/female). Anyone who studied computer science knows that most problems can be reduced to yes/no problems, so I guess this device can respond to most more complex queries, too. The stock analysts can use it to predict market tendencies. Where can I get a Certified Diviner diploma? |
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10/06/2006 01:02:38 AM · #23 |
Great shot Sher. I too was a doubter until I was taught to do it with bottles and coat hangers. Dang.....it works! We used to locate burried power lines and gas lines with it. Pretty accurate once you get the hang of it.
Message edited by author 2006-10-06 01:05:29. |
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10/06/2006 01:10:06 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by agenkin:
I wonder why we still need doctors to diagnose medical conditions... or metal detectos in the airports, or in the army to look for mines. Looks like there is a universal device that can find anything one is looking for. Oh, it also can respond to simple binary (yes/no) queries (e.g. male/female). Anyone who studied computer science knows that most problems can be reduced to yes/no problems, so I guess this device can respond to most more complex queries, too. The stock analysts can use it to predict market tendencies. Where can I get a Certified Diviner diploma? |
well, i never suggested that it was the be-all, end-all...merely sharing an experience that i thought was interesting.
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10/06/2006 01:21:22 AM · #25 |
Don't mind me. Just a deep-rooted skeptic. Even in the medical field everybody knows I'm the last to believe something.
It's fairly amazing I actually have a deep-rooted belief in religion...
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