When I was an Elec Eng student 45 years ago, I worked for a power company for several semesters. I went out to a rural field with an old timer in the planning department to figure out where we would run a new underground service. He pulled out his dousing rods to locate the existing underground water and gas lines across this whole field. I thought he was bull5hitting me until I tried it. It absolutely works to locate buried lines (gas, electric, water). I think it's because of the "lines of flux" produced by the conduit/pipe. I used these rods many times in that job and they were always accurate. It is not supernatural, just natural science in my opinion. Whether this works for finding water or metals, I don't know, but I do know enough not to doubt the possibility.
Not based on hearsay. As a young teen, my dad owned a sizable area of land on a mountain (a mountain in my area). He had three different wells drilled by three different drillers - in different locations. He contacted this old man that could dows. He did not know where the previous wells were drilled and there was no evidence of the drilling. He used green willow. In less than 30 minutes, he had a spot. 75 feet down and we hit water that is still flowing today. (I am pushing 60). Lucky? Accident? BS? We have water.
this is the best explanation ive seen for this, dowsing probably was first invented by a nervous indecisive person who just wanted to find a way to leave it up to chance. all the supernatural stuff probably came hundreds of years after as it often does.
@@masonart4950 LOL yeah try finding water in the death valley like me and other dowsers, otherwise best luck youll have finding water out there is to follow the burrows, they can smell water, smart monkers. anyways, go out to death valley, i guarantee you will not see a single piece of fancy sonar technology only copper rods and moldy hats yet they all have water. tell me theres water everywhere in DEATH VALLEY id love to hear it.
@@bring6not12 yeah, there is water everywhere… it’s just a matter of hitting the water table which ranges in depth, but doesn’t just disappear in certain locations. I’d love to argue about groundwater, but judging by your profile picture, you don’t agree with scientific fact and only speculate.
@@troyt6532 lol youre a smoothbrain, no shit the depth of water changes, the only difference between you and me is that youd dig 1000 holes before you hit water close to the surface. Also not sure what 1800s colonialism science youre reading but in our modern world science says were real and valid. So did the greeks, romans, just about every great nation to ever walk this planet agreed some people are born wrong and they deserve affirming care. But yeah continue denying facts and pulling fake ones out of your ass, it really makes you look smart. Not sure what your point is incel.
I looked for dowsing videos to see if anyone could authenticate it and I came accross titles like "Science or Pseudoscience" and other fancy words then I found this. "Is dowsing bullshit?" Ha! I love it!
Dowsing 100% works for underground utilities. The old man that taught me claimed that he could find natural water too, but I've never been a part of that. You hold the rods very loose and they just slowly turn.
Me too after I had a guy from the water company show up last night and we were doing this. Got on here to check it out and reading and watching ignorant comments of people posting like this guy. Yet this video clearly shows it working over a water hose turned on, but doesn't when no water is flowing through it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html
@jakiesenn8624 You are actually correct. I was told that it worked. A man appeared to show me that it worked. Later, a neighbor had to find utilities and I used Dowsing rods before they marked it and dug. I was correct. I understand your skeptical thoughts. I can't explain it.
Until today, I would’ve agreed with this guy 100%. But we called 811 on a project. The guy came out with expensive equipment AND dowsing rods. They work. I tried it myself, being careful not to adjust the rods or my grip. I was blown away because it worked, that’s why I’m on RU-vid… Searching for the science behind why.
I could see how belief in dowsing could be necessary back in the day. If you have to dig a really deep hole to get to water, you're not going to have the persistence to do it unless you have some sort of assurance that what you are doing is worth your time. So if grandpa says "Keep diggin' I done toldya there be water down there." Eventually he'll be right and you will do the same once you are a grandpa.
yeh not really because it finds flowing water and other entities (like gas in a gas line) up to a certain depth. You are not going to find something 50 feet down using this.
i can't speak for finding water to dig a well. that's Not my field. I am an electrical contractor.and they 100% work to find underground electrical, gas, and water lines. i use them regularly.
Most likely unlicensed? Because in order to become an electrician, you'll need to have a understanding of electricity, current codes and the tools to help you in the trade. pseudoscience is not one of those things.
@@rashadabdullah9769 Thank you for correcting the single letter i've forgotten in my post. Did you have a counter argument? Or was the correction of a single letter your only contribution?
I helped drill water wells for three years. The owner of the company believed in dowsing. From my experience we usually hit water just about anywhere we drilled. Many times we drilled on small lots with only one place to put well (to stay away from septic systems and neighboring systems). And yes, we normally got water. The real question is, How deep is the water. It could literally be beyond the capability of a 1100' drill rig(T3W for all those well drillers). In the three years I worked there (approximately 250 wells), we drilled 1 dry hole 1100' deep. We did drill many low producing wells with 1/2 gallon per minute, but when considering 1.5 gallon per foot water storage, that's a great deal of water at 400' deep. The more I worked there, the more I realized I knew nothing about where the water is. I'm not saying dowsing doesn't work. Just my observation.
Seems like you hit water nearly every time you drilled because he was sure where to drill? This video is a clear indicator that it works. Go to the end and watch what he does over a water hose. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html
My limited understanding of the phenomenon is that the rods don't have to be metal (many dowsers use a forked tree branch) so it would seem the earth's magnetic field is not an issue.
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination.” Have you ever experimented with energy rods yourself ?
We thought it was complete bullshit, too. In fact, my husband and I ‘used’ to think everything woo woo was complete bullshit but that’s another story. Several years ago we bought a house and immediately our toilets quit working and we had no clue where the septic tank was. We called a plumbing company and the guy shows up with dowsing rods, essentially two coat hangers unwound at the top and bent into the typical witch stick shape. Well, they pointed him directly to the tank and he marked it for us and when they came back, that’s where they dug and it turned out to be exactly in the center of the tank. Before anyone argues that the grass is always greener above septic tanks and that’s a tell, there was not a single blade of grass in that backyard at that time. So. We have all been brainwashed in this country. That became clear to me when in my 40’s I had some mind-boggling experiences that were, gotta say it, clearly supernatural. I would encourage young people to believe nothing, not even what your science professors tell you, unless you can experience it for yourself. Yes, some people lie about experiencing supernatural events. But some do not. ‘Science’ has been caught out many times for fraudulent research results and findings as well as destroying anomalous evidence. Don’t let anyone tell you what is true or not true. Find out for yourself. But definitely don’t sit on your ass and do nothing and pretend to know what’s up.
But people are easily fooled. Scientists may get it wrong, but are eventually corrected. Personal experience is varied and unpredictable. For example, experiencing the death of a loved one put one in a depressive state and depletes dopamine. Said person then sees a ghost of his loved one. Schitzophrenics have reduced dopamine levels, and see whatever it their brain decides.
I am a plumber by profession and I can confidently tell you that dowsing rods are absolute bullshit. The only people that think they work are old heads and their low IQ helpers.
You should research the physics of the electrical ions of thoughts. But I’m glad you say in your mind, your not a physics Expert so your opinion doesn’t matter. And 300 feet is much more shallow than 800
@@Hey_Bros False and you just repeated what the guy in the video says. Watch this video and try yourself. He gets no reading under him when the hose is off. Once turned on, it shows something there. This is a very easy experiment you can replicate. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html
Yea, I've worked for the utility company in my city for close to 6 years now. We had one supervisor in particular that swore by this and the first time i saw it i could only look around at everyone saying "is he f'n serious..."? But every single time we had an issue finding a service line for a house he came out and it was a fairly dead on prediction every time. Needless to say most all of our sewer and water guys use this when we need to because most of the time it really does work
You only need to look at the water traps etc to tell where the pipes are, how can it be that difficult?Also, sewer pipes are usually empty (unlike supply water pipes), so I'm not sure how that would work.
MrMonotone are you a pipe layer for every city because I know not all situations are a straight line from point a to point b there is times you have to work around obstacles
I've heard all of these stories myself. So, I took two brazing rods, bent them and walked across my yard. I was totally shocked. When I walked across one area of my yard the rods would come up into my face since they crossed so far. So, I made sure that there was a lot of weight on the ends of the rods by holding them down quite a bit. They still came up at that same exact spot. So I looked around and realized that this was the pipe from my well head to the basement. There is no doubt in my mind that the rods work. I'm still shocked, however.
Yeah we had a guy like that to,we said it was bullshit,and lo and behold,spot on everytime,untill I took him to a suprise property and he had so clue were anything was,got him real drunk one night and he confessed to looking at the layout/schematics of each property we were working on to look like hot shit.Dont be ignorant.
Not to discount your experience with that guy, but I've seen dowsing actually work really well. I worked under an old school surveyor to pay for college and we had to accurately locate a buried water line. We knew it was somewhere around the area, but our subsurface detectors just couldn't pick it up. The surveyor made dowsing rods out of two pin flags and indicated a spot in 30 seconds. We dug down to verify and sure enough, there was the line. We hooked up a mag pulse to the line and used the detector to map out the rest. I was so shocked that the dowsing worked that I made him show me. After that I could pick out water and gas lines with it too. One time, I dowsed out an unmarked gas line that wasn't on the survey plat which ran directly across a new line that we were going to put down. Again, I understand the skepticism, I was too. But one you do it for yourself, you can't deny it. One special note, when my surveyor dowsed his sticks always crossed inwards. For whatever reason, mine always split outwards. He just said that it was just that way with some people.
Of course it works, all utility workers, plumbers, electricians, construction workers use this method. Problem is there are fewer of these people than ever, because most folks these days sit on their arses and play with computers and become self appointed know it alls.
So there seems to be a number of people calling bs on dowsing- I've never used it to find water, but buried pipe and lines (cable, electric, gas) is super easy. Make yourself a set of rods using a metal coat hangers. Cut the hangers into a "L" shape using one of the existing corners of the hanger. Bend this corner out to achieve a 90 degree bend. Use the second hanger to make a duplicate "L" shaped rod. To hold the rods, place the short end in eack hand with the long end facing in front of you. Make a fist with eack hand with the rod protruding outward and forward between your thumb and forefinger. Squeeze your fist, but only to the extent of supporting the forward facing rods in a level position. Tuck your elbows into your torso with your hands 6 to 8 inches apart with your "gripped" rods pointing forward. Walk forward very slowly taking half steps. When the rods cross, the X they create indicates a line directly below the X. Still skeptical? Drag a garden hose or an exstension cord out, exstend a portion of it over your area, and walk towards and then over it to perfect your grip on the rods. If you follow these instructions and give it a fair shot, rods will cross everytime you pass over a line buried or not.
no he’s correct. You guys are so obviously fake because you can’t ever talk like a normal person. You’re syntax is always filled with self obsession/importance and over indulgence. If it were real you would’nt all talk the same way and in a manner that pathetically attempts to enforce your delusional world view. Most likely you’re not even a driller/utilities contractor either as all of you also always say that in a vein attempt to lend yourself credibility.
Not everyone can witch for water. You need a certain amount of electricity in your body to do it. I use it quite a lot now with great success. At one point I couldn't. Then as I grew older I noticed in the winter I kept getting zapped every time I reached for the car door from static electricity. Then one I was doing a bunch of road work with some excavating and had to pre-locate water services, gas services and so on. I had my trusty old locator, found the gs alright, found all the under ground electrical all right, but couldn't trace the copper water service to this one house. The locator wouldn't locate it were it should be and as I went back and forth 15' in each direction I got interference from the gas and electrical. I then thought about witching, grabbed some wire made some divining rods and and they crossed about 8 feet away from the area where it technically should have been at the water main. I saved the company thousands of dollars that day in man hours, material and dump fees. I've been doing it all the time now. The only issues I have is it will pick up underground streams which I'm not interested in.
@@Unforgiven1997 I didn’t understand the humor, you wanted to insult me by calling me an idiot, but you told that you don’t answer to an idiots,this means i'm not an idiot . Are you talking about your mom?
@Undergrad....your post resonated with me. I have the same issue in the Winter Time. Sometimes, especially in Grocery Stores for some reason, my hand can be several inches from something and a Blue Arch will reach out and shock me. On occasion the POP/CRACKLE sound is loud enough to make people down the isle from me turn and look to see where the sound came from. Some of them can be strong enough to send pain all the way up to my elbow for a second or two. My family and friends who have witnessed this first hand have asked me if I know why this happens to me? I tell them, "Well it would seem that either I'm so NEGATIVE that The Universe is doing it's utmost to instill something POSITIVE into me....OR I'm just a Very Well GROUNDED Person." rofl :~)
I was skeptical as well until I watched my uncle who was a plumber locate an underground water line. Still skeptical I tried it myself and it actually worked. I thought perhaps it was a reaction to the metal of the line but in fact it was plastic.
I'm also a plumber who has done this to find buried water lines. Don't know how it works, but it definitely works on iron and PVC piping with moving water. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When i was a kid (in the 80's) I used this sticks to find water and farm drainage tile. They worked 99% of the time for me. I new where the tile was after we found it. Every time I walked over it the rods spread apart.
@@Erin-bd6jg If you have them part, they will point inward. If you walk with them close together in one hand, they will spread apart. This isn't rocket science Einstein.
@@Erin-bd6jg Seriously though, why not get your hose and repeat what you see here...but try it again with the rods in the same hand together...if the rods are close together, they will point in the opposite direction. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html
@@doughouston5472 no they won't. Kuz it's bullshit. Any slight movement of the hand will cause the rods to move. It's been debunked in so many different studies it isn't even worth mentioning.
Geotechnical engineer here - just try it. We use a copper pipe/rod (just one) to find sewage and waterlines so we don't drill through them. I don't know how it works, but it does and it's not magic.
@@Bodragon Let's break this down: "In cree communities" What does this phrase mean? Oh, it turns out, the Cree are a tribe native to Canada, including the province of Quebec. Quebec is famous for having French alongside English. Aqueduc is a French word. You are a moron.
no he’s correct. You guys are so obviously fake because you can’t ever talk like a normal person. You’re syntax is always filled with self obsession/importance and over indulgence. If it were real you would’nt all talk the same way and in a manner that pathetically attempts to enforce your delusional world view. Most likely you’re not even a driller/utilities contractor either as all of you also always say that in a vein attempt to lend yourself credibility.
As water runs underground over the quartz, it creates electromagnetic properties and that's why the rods come together. It's actual science that works.
Dowsing works but only for some people. Meaning the rods will only work through the body of the person using them. I've used them to find sprinkler lines to within inches lots of times. But the same line same rods used by someone else will not work if that person doesn't have the ability. What one person has vs one that doesn't is really the Mystery...
@@blakedavis2447 Dont be an asshole. An old guy showed me how to do it. I was skeptical until it worked for me. He said that some people are naturally much better at it. I have located underground utilities and corrugated pipe from a gutter. I've never been part of digging a well, but dowsing 100% worked for my purposes. Look at magnets... they are pretty unbelievable too.
@jetset808. If you can sqease as hard as you can and the wires still move, then you should be able to let the wires point down and they would cross on their own. Show that to the scientists. So far ALL dowsers have failed to prove to the scientific community dowsing works. Since people have claimed dowsing has worked for centuries why is it that nobody has proven it works? Even after centuries? I think people should pay attention to facts and not their imaginations. If dowsing works why hasn't anyone claimed the million dollar reward that is apparently still offered by the James Randi foundation? Answer: it doesn't work.
Updated from earlier post. The driller came and drilled 625 feet and only got 10gpm. His dowsing rods failed. He said 400 feet but had to go 625 feet. His rods told him 30-80 gallons and only got 10gpm. drill is all guess work no metal rods will tell you where water is. Drill anywhere deep enough and you will hit some water.
Nope. Here where I live there is dry land. I mean the property next to me had 12 holes drilled and not one hit water. Guess what. Rods never found any water there. I walked the whole 35 acres and not one cross. They drilled anyways the owner of the drill company said oh those rods don’t always mean you will find water and that water is not there. So they went to drilling 12 holes all the way to the shale not a drop. Any driller will tell you out here that once you hit shake there is no water past that. So in this case and in my case the one spot on my property they told me was water I hit at 30 ft.
Dowsers claim they can also find gold. When I go detecting on the beach, have never once seen someone with dowsing rods carrying found jewelry or coins. If they work so well where are they? The beach is littered with gold and coins yet no dowsers to find them. They can find water because it's everywhere.
In the case of a beach, water is literally everywhere. That's not the case though inland like people are pretending. One simple fact destroys that argument. How am I able to detect where every single pipe on any property is if water was "everywhere". I'd feel that magnetic pull literally all over the yard. I only feel it when I cross that particular pipe that is underground. Plastic pipes, concreted ones, doesn't matter. Is the magnetic energy created by electric build up of current from flowing water. You realize moving water produces electricity right? As far as finding objects, I think that's where the BS begins.
I’ve watched dowsing rods find a water main... personally I wouldn’t have believed it but sure enough it actually worked, he used stainless rods in copper pipe.
@@whackly Maybe not. I watched a guy walking over a parking lot to find the underground water for a warehouse complex. I told him I didn't believe it, he handed me two copper l-rods and they moved only in one spot, and they moved like they were pulled by a magnet. I don't think it's dowsing though, but those l-rods really moved
@@jdearr1 all rigorous testing ever done shows dowsi g to be bollocks. I have seen many things I was unable to explain. coincidence, trickery, fraud. every mystery ever solved has turned out to be not magic.
@stimmo77 All pseudoscience has people who are convinced it's true. The problem is, people can be fooled. They see patterns on coincidences or assign significance to the wrong information because it fits a narrative. Rigorous scientific testing has repeatedly shown dowsing doesn't work. Anecdotal evidence is only convincing to those who want to believe.
@@whackly Granted, but the copper wires moved. Something, not dowsing, is going on. Who would think batteries with magnets would fly through coils of copper wire?
I live in the Wairau valley in the heart of New Zealand's wine district. All rural properties have their own well, and dousers can score 100% success rate here, because it doesn't mater where you drill, you'll always hit water. Some areas need you to go a bit deeper. I live at Rapaura where you only need to go two to three metres to hit the aquafer, but we still go down to 15 metres because the water is cleaner.
I'm not trying to persuade anyone to believe or doubt. I will tell you that I can find water lines very old and forgotten. I have done this many times. I will do it blindfolded if you just don't let me fall over something. I have found this useful on construction sites and old house sites. So just because you can't do it, doesn't mean it's not so. I can't explain it. Have no idea why or how.
Pretty well established by people actually running though thought out scientific tests that it's between a scam and gullibility, depending on the person doing it
Dowsing rods work. To cut out the bullshit I cut two pieces of hose to slide the rods in and use as handles, so I had no way of manipulating it with my fingers and it works! I found a gas line that was replaced that did not have a tracer wire on it. The original one did and that’s how we realized someone screwed the pooch when the trace suddenly stopped.
I'm not entirely sure what the point of that was. However, dowsing has been around for thousands of years and people can detect all manner of things, not just water.
It's all fake. Last week I had my driller come out and I told him the backyard would work best and belive it or not his rods led him to the backyard. A week later he came back out to make sure the road dried up for his rig, I told him I would rather have him drill further in the back so as not to have the well in the middle of my yard. He again used his rods and behold his rods crossed exactly where I had told him I would rather have had it. So why didn't those rods point back to the old spot? it's only a 25 foot differance, because it's fake.
1onekid you have to be alone and positive, connect your mind with that...probably you did something wrong. It’s about connection, just like when you connect with your partner.
Simple. The facts are not being represented. The sewer guy came out last night and used a different T-shaped tool and held the top and bottom on two points with the 3rd point parallel to the ground. When he walked over water pipes, it turned and was then parallel to the water pipe. I asked to try it and it did the same thing every single time in the same place along the pipe. I walked down 10 feet, did it again, same place. I marked the spots with flags and you can visually see the pipe. I did in the yards also blindfolded and they stopped me when it moved...I was standing right on top of the pipe connecting the house to the main up by the street/sidewalk area. You should try actually doing your own research before you make comments.
I dunno my grandfather used dowsing to put wells on all his property every one has a well he found using dowsing rods- they also started a military program after the Vietnam war because one of the members of the us military used dowsing rods to find things like underground Vietcong buildings etc, and was very successful- they started a program for him to teach troops when the war was over but got freaked out not because it did not work but because it did work and they could not figure out why- also historically they used wood rods to dowse for water which scientifically would make more sense to me because the wood when still alive which it is supposed To be would be drawn to water
The only explanation I have heard people give is some sort of electromagnetic field or force, but that wouldn't make sense if the rods were wood, which they frequently are. Also why would flowing water be different than still water? Theres plenty of people who claim they find leaks in pipes but what would be the difference between the water flowing through a pipe than flowing into the ground? If the pipe is metal, would it not conduct as well? It's almost as if none of it makes sense in a logical way that matches our current under of sciences. It's like its bs or something?
Previous owner of this property had a well drilling company use witching and came up with 3 dusty dry holes in a water scarce valley because of clay. As new prospective owners we drilled based on information drilling as close as possible to an existing summer creek just off the property and got water but only 1 gallon per minute which was the bare minimum for a 3 bedroom house permit. That's next to nothing but worth it with half off cost of the property. However, 30 years later the well is not producing. Sure would like a better well!
So I used to work for a plumbing contractor and some of the old timers were talking about this and I also called BS and laughed at it. They convinced me to go home and try it for myself. I was sent home with 2 stainless steel 12" rods 1/8 thick. Both were bent about 4 inches from the end. I balanced them on my fingers and walked parallel to the back of my house trying to find my sweage line to my septic tank. The rods crossed at a certain point, so I moved several feet away from the house, walked the line again and literally traced out the sewage line from septic tank lid in the middle of the yard, to under my porch where I found a clean out. I was blown away. I then traced out where my underground roof gutter drain pipes ran and found the outlet 100ft away from my house in the woods at the back of my property. Then I traced out all the finger drains in my leech field and my underground main electrial conduit to the road. It was absolutely amazing. That being said, I highly doubt it can be used to find the best place to drill a well, so I agree with you there. BUT IT DEFINITELY WORKS in finding voids underneath the earth up to a few feet. I will live by that.
TheGuyMain Randi is a con man. Nothing more. Dowsing for electric lines and pipes works...sometimes. Sometimes not. Why? Who knows? The rods are sold in excavator supply catalogs.
@TheGuyMain I can confirm this works, saw some old timer doing it on RU-vid, I called BS too. Made two rods from old wires, used strews to balance them, then set out across the yard. They cross over metal and places were water is free flowing, if the water is not flowing the rods are useless. We have a large piece of land that does not have a well yet, so I tried using the rods to find water. I came across an area that was beyond chance, so I started to dig. Within 3 inches I hit a old barbed wire fence. This is just as good as a metal detector that makes since, and I think the reason this method is so scoffed at is because it predates the electric age and still has "witch craft" label tied to it.
It definitely works for those that are open and willing to understand the natural intuition of human consciousness. Modern day science is highly flawed as we still base most of our theories on partical physics on the Standard Model pertaining to matter. However, physicists are now starting to look more closely at the non-physical and things that can not be explained with our current models although they keep trying, Higgs boson/God Particle, etc while just missing the mark. It's like Tesla once said, "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibrations". The physical dousing rods are just a tool, the conduit for running water is actually the energy body (human being) holding them. I was skeptical at first as well but now believe that no matter how hard some people try them, if you are a skeptic they will not work for you (mind over matter is a powerful tool that science still has yet to explain, consider those that experience spontaneous healing for example?) Anyhow, to make a long story short my husband learned to dowse for geopathic stress zones that could be running through our home because we had done plenty of research to suggest that these zones can often make individuals, plant life and/or even animals extremely sick if too much time is spent in this area. Well since my husband and I suffered with some major health ailments we decided to give them a try. First he did them while I wasn't watching so that we could observe if it was somehow either of our subconscious' playing tricks on us and to our surprise they seemed to work! Mind you agian, I say we were both skeptics of this technique for finding underground water but we are both highly spiritual (not religious), believe in the non-physical, quantum physics and the works of Nikola Tesla, Madame Blavastsky's doctrine, as well as Thomas W. Campbell's (Physicist) work, all of which are looking into or have looked into things that science still has yet to explain or has written off as quackery. Anyhow, we ended up coming back with the same results and two of the places we spent most of our time seemed to be the worst area's in our house. We also found that outside in our yard where we had this one tree that we had planted when we first moved in didn't seem to be doing very well, it's an evergreen but yet the bottom of the tree always seemed to be just on the verge of dying or diseased and this area according to the dowsing rods also came back as a giopathic stress zone. We eventually figured out a few ways to remediate the negative effects/energy that was being created by these underground, crossing waterways and number one we both started to feel a little better (mind you we've done a ton of other stuff to regain our health to be fair) but perhaps the best proof of this experiment was that the tree literally came back to life and we have never had a problem with it ever since! If I hadn't seen this tree come back to life I probably would have still been skeptical but I suspect the tree is probably not bullshitting about feeling better. Lol! Just saying!
I can find old water lines, telephone lines .septic lines, water direction, electric believe what you will . There is a lot weird things in this world.
You can find anything with it even electricity cables depending what you concentrate on, they are harder to find than the water you believe is everywhere. BTW if you believe water is everywhere the rods should be constantly crossed.
@@michaelwalsh9145 Dowsers move rods with their hands and are self convinced it's some power. Take a table and attach rod holders to it so when you insert rods into the holders they are stationary and can't be moved by hands. Next put a test subject you want to "detect" under the table (cup of water, connected power cord, whatever) and put your hands on rod holders and use your mind to detect what you placed right under the table. Rods won't cross, they won't even move a millimeter. Welcome to the real world.
That's a copout from someone who has no clue. Watch the video and hose experiment at the end. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html
if they have the gift or curse it works. i have seen over 60 years the failures and the success. a gifted one will tell you the location, direction and how deep. i personally have tired it , and it worked, scared the crap out of me. the water was at that spot and deep. the bible is clear, do not practice witchcraft. before you say it is bullshit. try it for yourself. that will provide you with the answer. leave it alone. imo
When I was 14 my dad built a house and the well digger used a willow branch to do this “dowsing”. I though it was the biggest crock of sh$t I had ever seen. However I’m 44 years old now and I’m a home owner with a water line leak. All the plumbers are weeks out so I’m having to fix it myself. This started asking some of the guys at work what to do and they all started talking about water witching. I was like oh boy here we go lol. Being that I’m desperate and my ground is super rocky making it hard to dig. I made some out of clothes hangers and they definitely seem to move on their own. I brought my son out and told him to hold them loose and they moved in the same spots that they moved with my experience. He was inside the house when I tried them. So still being the skeptic I began searching for some scientific or logical explanation for this phenomenon. All I’ve found so far is that most everyone that hasn’t tried it thinks it’s bullshiggidy and those that have are dumbfounded that it works. As for deep wells I’m not sure. As for water lines there’s something to it not sure what, but definitely something strange going on with it lol. So I’m going to use the dowsing rods to potentially mark the lines. I have also called the utility hotline to come out with their modern technology to find and mark it. It’s going to be interesting to see how close the mysterious “witching” rods compare to modern technology.
@@zile8869 The utility marking crew only marked to the meter and I would have had to pay for any further. However, the first spot I marked with the dowsing rods was dead on target.
I can't claim that they work to find water. However, I have had success in finding where the ground has been disturbed, (dug up). I believe the affect is caused by disturbances in the Earth's Geomagnetic fields. There is a standard soil compaction baseline. To factors seem to be involved. The first is the disruption of the backfill. Scientists have studied the polarization of volcanic rocks and can determine when the Earth's magnetic poles have flipped +/- by checking the pollarization of lava flows. However, with backfill the uniformity of material has randomized the polarity causing resistance against the Geomagnetic field. Additionally, the differential in soil compaction further contributes to the effect seen when dowsing. The combination of factors causes a small Eddy field (resistant energy) to be present near the disturbed ground which reacts with or against the metal rods. How long this disturbance remains detectable would depend on a number of natural factors across time.
I read something similar to this but this is disproven in this video. It seems to detect something moving (kinetic energy). Watch the end where he gets nothing when going over a hose that is off and then gets a reading when the hose is turned on. It detects movement in that cavity. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html
I played around with a pair I found, used them inside my house and it turned out they were reacting to RF Intensities. I was dumbfounded. lol I have no idea how that happened, but after reading your post I figured I'd share my experience with them picking Radio Frequencies.
Dowsing rods do not find water specifically they find “voids” in the ground examples would be where they have buried electric, pipes, random shit. That’s why people use it for wells because it a void in the earth. Idk how it works but it does I have been using it for spinklerfitting for awhile and so did the guy that taught me. A lot of old school trade workers use them.
You think you saw one guy fail once, so call bullshit on the whole thing. I saw an old guy doing it once. I didn't believe it. He told me about it and I tried. It worked perfectly. I was astounded. He said that some people just naturally seemed much better at it, than others. I've used it several times, successfully for underground utilities. It absolutely works!
@@Erin-bd6jg I'm not really sure what your response means. I was just speaking of my experience. I didn't believe it until I experienced it, so I can understand skepticism.
@@Erin-bd6jg Also, how many people drive cars without understanding how they work? Witnessing something work/happen and understanding it can be very different things. Cut up a couple of coat hangers and try it. You might be surprised or you might not ...
@@WhompingWalrus ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html literal proof of it working 100% of the time on water hoses. Just stop with your fake responses.
All good points. I'd add, however, that apparently the dowsing technique is extremely ancient, depicted in prehistoric cave paintings dating roughly to 6000 B.C. in areas where underground water is much harder to find than in North America. Interestingly, in 1967 the U.S. Marines used dowsing rods to locate Viet Cong tunnel systems with some degree of success. I neither "believe" nor disbelieve in dowsing. My opinion is there's a huge b.s. factor involved, but some dowsers appear to be both genuine as well as accurate and I have no idea why.
Honestly i just learned how to do it for my work locating water lines. Its super simple. Theres no mind games or anything. Just hold 2 rods and watch them. Works every time.
it isn't something you either believe or disbelieve though. If a man can take a water hose and walk over it with tools that do not indicate anything, then turns on water and does it again and his tool indicates a flow of water and it works 100% of the time, it's not about belief or disbelief. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AW_xDXDtDmc.html
Fyi, the Witches requested the following be relayed to you... They deemed you unworthy of their service as, in their words, "he plays with way too much rod as it is"
If that's so, then why can you use dowsing rods to find the exact spot in areas that don't have bedrock underneath or other minerals like gold. Not BS. The world doesn't just exist in America.
I've watched a man drill 5 holes on his property for water with no luck until a man came out and witched the well and he found water so it's not bulshit I used to drill Wells for a living
Forget water dowsing. There's more to divining than looking for water. You are skeptical about things you don't understand. Most divining has to do with magnetics. And no it is not of the devil. I have found that superstition has no place in divining. That's a myth carried on from the middle ages.
I used the rods in college about forty years ago. A professor friend of mine had them one day and asked me to just do it. He was quite impressed as I walked forwards and backwards and the rods always crossed exactly where the college water pipes were under the ground. I did it three times holding the rods very loosly in my hands. I did NOTHING to make the rods move !! They moved on their own !!
I just tried it for the first time. We placed a water bottle in the floor and walked over it. Sure enough they crossed. 4 ppl same result. I even held the rods firmly and they still turned.
Wow....i was on a cruise ship and couldn't get my dowsing rods uncrossed........only when i stepped off the ship onto dry land is when i could get them separated..wow again.
Well it dose find things buried at shallow depths and Ive used it hundreds of times for finding Cables and pipe work, my Grandfather also use to use it for finding Tile drains out in the paddocks
What about when it starts bending down and you realize it was the same time you peed your pants???😅 How much can you sell these for? Should I include some free water? I recommend not getting the sticks wet😂 Could be a wild goose chase all day! We took these out to the beach and we couldn’t find any water at all. I want my money back so bad! I put two marshmallows on the ending, went and found FIRE😂 I put 2 $100 bills on the end, and found myself a new girlfriend! 😅 Fell into a swimming pool in mine snapped in half. 😁
It really depends on what kind of well you want to drill. Shallow? Deep? Really, really deep? At 250 feet, this is already very deep. Take for example a traditionally dug well. Not so deep. About 20 feet, and a diameter of 5 to 6 feet. Yes, the traditional well. They don't just dig these wells without dousing. They look for "contributors" to the well. The well diggers will dig deeper than the "sources" so that they really dig a well. Meaning, it is a well. The well defined as a containment. When water goes out of the "source", it is collected by the "well" below it. Instead of sticking a pipe into the "source", you just let it flow down the well or containment, and there you have water to pitch by means of a rope and a bucket. The depth of the physical well against the water level depends on the depth of the "contributor". What you want to build is a very deep well. Down into the aquifer region. The douser found "contributors" in the shallow part of the ground. From there, many think that he has found water. No, no, no. He found a "contributor" but not the water table under. The water table is always down there. You don't have to look for it. It is down there. The difference in depth depends on the geological make up of the land. As for your case, 350 feet. You are still lucky because there are parts where the water table is almost beyond "reach". The thing with the shallow well is that you can only collect water that much. Unlike if you have tapped the water table, you almost have unlimited supply. However, there is a drawback to this. If you pump up more water than what is returned by means of rain, you have ground movement. The earth above it will slowly sink. In our area, it is prohibited to dig wells without permission from the local government. If it is in the mountain parts, maybe they will still allow. But in the city or crowded areas where buildings are built, it is strictly prohibited.
I am incredibly sceptical and I cannot find any studies that prove it working more than chance. But I work for an irrigation company and they use divining/dowsing. I agree that it seems ludicrous for the most part. I was interested once, though, that a bore was running dry so they had someone in to find a better stream. The position he chose was uphill from the existing one which sat in a gully (a natural point for water you would think) and the one up the hill is much better. I do wonder if they are just good at reading the land formations.
@@Skitdora2010 birds and bees just use magnetic fields and landmark recognition. There is no known motive force that can achieve the outcome of finding water. There have been huge prizes available for years which nobody can claim, in a controlled trial, because it doesn't truly exist.
@@tophercIaus prizes for proving dowsing? I can find underground utilities with the. I didnt believe it until I did it myself. I've know nothing about wells, though.
@@tophercIaus why be a fucking asshole? I saw an old guy using dowsing rods at an event. He was giving a demonstration with dowsing rods. I didn't believe it at all. I asked some questions. He explained and told me to try. I was astounded that it worked. He said some people are naturally better at it. I think he said some people can't do it? I have found underground utilities with them and I've found a buried corrugated pipe, from my gutter. I can find electrical and gas lines, if I recall correctly. I've used them several times, but I've never used them on something more than a few feet deep and I have no idea how someone would know how deep something is. My father in law quickly drains watch batteries if he wears an electric watch. I found that very hard to believe too, but its true.
There is a pipe under ground at my parents. If you walk with rods, they literally turn. If you set them up in a stand and carry a bucket under and they move themselves. Give it a try lol. Maybe I am imagining stuff.
It does work. This guy clearly either watched someone who wasn't good at it or he's just got his mind so locked into a small box that he refuses to accept the thousands of success stories. And no, there aren't veins of water everywhere ( I guess, if you could drill thousands of feet deep, maybe). Just ask the other thousands of home owners with 6-800 foot dry holes in the ground. I've seen too much to disregard a good dowser.
trust and open mindedness helps for accuracy and effectiveness of using dowsing for divining. Close mindedness and disbelief will cause interference and inconsistency.
My family have been using dowsing for generation's and how you described the guy doing it was all wrong. You are to have a light holding grip, ask it questions they cross it's a yes open wide a no and if they don't move it's a ask your question again. if he just asked one question and griped them it was smart that you didn't use that guy, he would have ripped you off.
Say what you will and I don't know why, but it does work. I have used it many times to find septic lines, weeping beds, holding tanks and not just locate feed and discharge lines but actually trace them with a very high degree of accuracy and in areas where i really didn't have a clue where to look so I know I wasn't influencing the rod action. I know it sounds like witchcraft but it really does work.
realitycheck realitycheck greg ferguson no it really doesn’t work and neither do you most likely. You guys are so obviously fake because you can’t ever talk like a normal person. You’re syntax is always filled with self obsession/importance and over indulgence. If it were real you would’nt all talk the same way and in a manner that pathetically attempts to enforce your delusional world view. Most likely you’re not even a driller/utilities contractor either as all of you also always say that in a vein attempt to lend yourself credibility.
So why do dowsing rods not respond continuously if there is always water under our feet, according to you? All dowsers in the know are just laughing at this video, so thank you for the laugh. Do a course. You too can be amazed. Its actually not something you can learn in 1 day but you can learn enough to start testing your tool(s). Many first timers can't make the rods move to start with, it takes time. I just watched a video by a child explaining the phenomena with a diagram and physical demonstration. It has been an amazing journey for me, the ancient art is not even limited to finding water as explained by the boy I just mentioned. Good luck with your exploration from hereon.
