Dowsing For Valuable Relics

Join me, Rob, and Jesse as Rob gives us a lesson on his dowsing technique. Rob has a couple of rods that when held properly, and with keeping the right state of mind, he feels can lead you to relics buried in the ground without using a metal detector. We do a little test with a hidden Civil War bullet, and although some weird things do happen, I was not successful in finding a bullet that was hidden in the grass from me. Maybe next time!
About Aquachigger:
I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
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[@wcharliewilson7004]

"Next week, Chigger dabbles with a Ouija board and talks with relics of the past. You don't want to miss Ghigg's conversation with Johnny Yuma's Minié ball. Be sure to stay tuned-in... laterally"

[@RemusKingOfRome]

I don't think Bobbie Wobbs or Fiona are convinced. :D

[@kitchenlab9578]

Lol

[@reelingminnesota2855]

@Timothy Exner I do this to find underground wires and gas lines. It's actually helped us to not hit miss marked or just missed lines when digging in stuff for construction. Now the whole talking to it thing is out there a bit.

[@colleenposadas8415]

😅

[@kenj.8897]

This is the Black arts pure witchcraft LOL I hope Chigg went to church that night.

[@__WJK__]

It surprises me how so few (if any) science teachers show dowsing rods to their students!?? Dowsing rods are definitely a thing & they definitely work, however (given their simplicity) they're, of course, not going to out-perform modern electronic equipment, but given that they work at all, is pretty fascinating to say the least.

[@bonkman6463]

its because they dont work

[@__WJK__]

@@bonkman6463 - Have you ever actually experimented with dowsing rods? They work exactly as the video explains and shows!

[@said.skopal]

In Bosnia (where i am from) some people have taken this to a very high level...

[@__WJK__]

@@said.skopal - Fascinating, thank you for sharing that. You should consider filming a video of that and put it on youtube(!)

[@shootthemoon6072]

The term "Snipe Hunt" comes to mind

[@flinteastwood7179]

lol yup! Rob and his buddy to Aquachigger on a snipe hunt, lol.

[@__WJK__]

While I've never heard of anyone "asking questions of dowsing rods" the basic principal of dowsing rods is 100% legit. If you've never tried expermenting with them, you should try them... especially given how cheap/easy they are to build and use.

[@unlock_your_dream_home]

I thought for sure this was a parody skit the whole time...until it wasn't 🤣

[@__WJK__]

Dowsing rods actually do work and are fun to experiment with + they're super easy/cheap to build.

[@hardyakka6200]

If devining worked there would be no relics left in the ground. Reminds me of these people who tell your future. How come they never win a large lottery prize?

[@flinteastwood7179]

Exactly! It's a scam plain and simple, Rob is a scammer.

[@flinteastwood7179]

@Detectorist Roz He might be but the fact remains he's trying to sell/convince something that doesn't work in any way shape or form whether he knows it or not. A grown adult man playing with rods, lol you can't get no more silly than that, lol.

[@zincolnminer6671]

I see you are inflicted with logic, and reason. Inhale some glue to fix that.

[@edua999]

its not always accurate, thats why, also most people try it once, they fail and call it mumbo jumbo, in reality it takes practice and patience to make it work, which none of you will ever find out unless you are open to experiment for a while.

[@CookingWithCows]

You can make a lot of money with dowsing rods... By selling them.

[@PaulApplebyphotography]

Don't give time to this BS Chig. You're better than that.

[@bobbydixon9368]

How'd it know the difference between water and relics?

[@flinteastwood7179]

Exactly! As if the rods have a mind of their own, lol.

[@lunarrn]

You imagine what you want to find. If you’re imagining civil war relics then you will not find water.

[@wcharliewilson7004]

Never mind, Chigg, these guys have no problem with their kids practicing 'divination' There's science, physics involved: momentary interruption of the earths magnetic field, not demons... so, RUN!!

[@You-qt5dw]

"In that direction there's something somewhere" Amazing! There really is something somewhere in that direction, and it picked it up straight away!

[@carlorodriguez6585]

Just another troll bro

[@closeupchannel4365]

Sorry, but dowsing is complete nonsense, you are right to be highly skeptical, don't go trading in your detector any time soon! 🤣

[@mikemaxwell2591]

Tried it while driving and it took me to McDonalds 😂

[@ChrisSherlock]

Many, many years ago a workmate told me he could dowse for water pipes, and of course I just laughed, and laughed at his bullshit. So, he demonstrated the technique with a couple of pieces of welding wire, and then I had a go. That certainly taught me a lesson, and I'm not so quick to dismiss such things now.

[@__WJK__]

It surprises me how so few (if any) science teachers show dowsing rods to their students!?? Dowsing rods are definitely a thing & they definitely work, however (given their simplicity) they're of course not going to out-perform modern electronic equipment (in most cases) but given that they work at all, is pretty fascinating and amazing.

[@kalemueller2030]

I think it’s a bunch of BS myself lol. MAYBE for finding water…. MAYBE. There is no technique to it. You hold them to where they can spin freely and you start walking. The bullet didn’t work the first 7 times but then magically somehow it worked……… it’s BS.

[@aquachigger]

Nah, it never worked for the bullet.

[@522sunpaz]

Thanks for the great video! I’ve had some great artifact finds using copper dowsing rods with wooden handles. Best of luck💚

[@vsee2207]

They are not asking to find the bullet, they are not focused nor did they ask for the direction to go.

[@richardb8104]

Do you know more about this subject? I'm curious about it.

[@rebeccalucysmith9689]

I understand giving it a go when your looking for a water source; nothing to lose. But why would you waste your time with this hocus pocus looking for relics when you’ve got a metal detector that you know works?

[@koltoncrane3099]

A metal detector only works so well. If you can dowse and get to an area with gold and then use a metal detector it’ll save you a lot of time. Jose silva that taught mind methods to change your mind vibrations decades ago before it was widely pushed his friend said he’d use techniques to visualize and feel or dowse where gold maybe In a stream and then he’d bring out his sluice. Yes some people can’t believe or it doesn’t work for em. But if it works for some people it makes total sense to dowse and then use detectors or sluices etc. Also remember metal detectors are illegal in some places. Millions of acres detectors are illegal to use. Even huge recreational areas metal detecting isn’t considered recreational on public land in the west. If you just happen to dowse a gold nugget though that’s probably less noticeable than a guy waving a detecting for hours.

[@earlshaner4441]

Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone and MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year everyone

[@terryalderson2851]

I do directional boring and I dows for utilities all the time. I just use a piece of wire. It works by picking up the changes in the magnetic field caused by voids/disturbed earth. Hard to pick up things on top of the ground since they aren’t disturbing the soil

[@reelingminnesota2855]

Yup I've used it for finding wires and gas lines before digging. I've just used those wires from when electric companies mark their wires with flags.

[@hamshackleton]

Well - was it, or wasn't it? No conclusion.

[@ashleigh2491]

Not very convincing 😂

[@jthreeb]

Well, this was unexpected lol

[@jerrymcgovern4848]

What a load of......

[@richadmcdonough2042]

I'm a utility lineman in New England and we use copper ground wire as dowsing rods to locate buried utilities (water, gas, electric, Cable TV and Telephone) when we need to set a pole that hasn't been Digsafed yet. It works.

[@canigetachannel]

HAHA ! They got Chigg doin' the Dowsing Dance ! Yeah, not scientific, at all. It's quite obvious. Anyway, funny. Peace

[@dougalexander7204]

I knew an old man who could find waterlines and such by dousing. I didn’t believe it until he found a buried fuel oil tank and the lawn was perfect.

[@reelingminnesota2855]

I use it for finding lines and wires. An old plumber showed me how to do it.

[@jedeye825]

yep.. dowsing is real guys.. your body is an electrical antenna.. send/receive. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, people are capable of this and it is real.

[@MrJob91]

The people in Ukraine need these to find landmines and anti personel traps

[@martyjehovah]

@@jedeye825 Hey man I've got a bridge for sale

[@NillWill]

I heard ancient people didn’t need the rods, they could find water with their pineal gland. That’s an advanced civilization!

[@deltadigger2833]

Water ok maybe 😅but relics? Nonsense 😅

[@erickgraham223]

Hey chigg, Big fans here love what you do. My wife and I are GPAA members and live in the lake pleasant area and there are some native American ruins in our area if you get in the north Peoria az area please come join us for lunch. That would be pretty Awesome. Take care buddy and be safe..... Ps Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎄

[@TheCardiganR]

It wasn't too long ago that some water companies used these in the UK. Not too sure they still do.

[@sherryh7485]

My great great grandfather was a prolific oilman in the mid to late 1800s. It had been reported that he used a dousing rod to find great oil deposits. He was once one of the richest men in America and sold his company to Rockefeller, which Rockefeller used to start Standard Oil when he was buying up smaller companies.

[@wvufreak56]

Very interesting.....Just don't use tarot cards!

[@mikeh1242]

Is this in pleasant valley off of rt. 67 close to Brownsville

[@tonymenzies8866]

is it best to be bear foot so you are one with the earth ?? or do boots not make any difrince

[@CHAD-RYAN]

This must be how bounty hunter metal detector work

[@lllBAMlll]

lol, I was going to say, tilt them down a little..

[@john128652001]

Just nothing like some Witchcraft played into the detecting game !

[@texaswader]

True story. On my Grandfather's farm his water well casing collapsed and he had to drill a new well. A guy he knew was a dowser and he had him come out and he walked the property around the house and on the opposite side of the house he got a strong signal; stronger than any other he found. Where the old well was he got a strong signal so my Grandfather had the water well drilling company drill at the spot on the opposite side of the house and they hit really good water at 50'. Say what you will but it made a believer out of him.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey Chigg and everyone else

[@vebnew]

YOU MUST HOLD YOUR MOUTH RIGHT.....

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

Old witches way ti find wayter

[@LadyTam55]

It's about your intention

[@RjKME]

I used those rods to find a water well.

[@mr.skipper4544]

It's all hocus pocus, I have a really really nice bridge for sale, it's a marvelous bridge, and you'll never see a better one like it, and at a great price, and the location is wonderful, you can't beat the location 👍🤥

[@calliecooke1817]

My brother is an electrician. He has a guy he works for that dowses for underground cables. He uses two pieces of clothes hanger, very similar to what you're using. His results are uncanny!!

[@kennyhollidayjr5206]

My cousin claimed to be able to do this too and said he was very successful finding water pipes in his plumbing business

[@dabprod]

I've used wire coat hangers like these to find water lines. Worked every time. This technique was shown to me over 50 years ago. I wouldn't believe it at first.

[@DeepVIDesigns]

Dowsing is my personal vendetta. Working for an underground utility that has to locate regularly I hear this ALL the time. In my experience, when push comes to shove nothing ever pans out. And I need to get the real locating gear out. Everyone seems to know someone that can find anything every time. Confirmation bias at its finest.

[@calliecooke1817]

@@DeepVIDesigns Well, I'm a roofer/tinsmith, so it really doesn't affect me. But my bro holds a MD master electricians card, and my best friend does too. I've seen the guy work, but I could be fooled. These other two guys, I don't think so. They say he's legit. My mother retired from WSSC(water company). She was secretary for the head of new construction. They had a guy who dowsed. Everyone said he was faster and more accurate than the metal detector. I don't know, it might be hocus-pocus, but it really seems that there is something to it.

[@dabprod]

@@DeepVIDesigns Well, worked for me.

[@idiggold]

Dowsing is hocus pocus. Sorry

[@Lee-qp6gf]

Target needs to be underground. We used to douse for gas lines in lawns with 100% accuracy.

[@leannkennedy6568]

YEAH!!! LOL

[@jamescrabtree4358]

A lady in New Carlisle Ohio found over 60 thousand dollas in coins using the rods. My dad usd the rods to find our old well casing in Tennessee .

[@papaguche]

Ive seen alot of people try to use dowsing to find underground sewers it never worked. By a lot i mean like 600 times for sewers i dug with an excavator

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@johnnyphillips9735]

Dowsing is how we found our best well in the whole neighborhood it does work thanks for mr chigg

[@kickapootrackers7255]

I've seen guys successful with them as" Well ". Hey brother

[@fredolygrigs]

I've never tried finding relics doing that but it works finding water do doubt

[@kevinfelker5544]

Lol

[@henrys3629]

Aquadowser

[@48thstateprospecting]

Chig I know that test didn’t convince you but I use them all the time in construction to find buried lines. I used them in Texas in the oil fields to find buried oil and gas lines before we trenched (saved our lives a couple times because they didn’t know the gas lines were there and a trencher rips them open easily, if the wind is blowing towards your air intake on your trencher and you hit a gas line the motor winds up until it explodes there were two company’s that lost guys that way when I worked there) I’ve also used them to locate stressed post tension cables in concrete floors (for plumbers and electricians that missed the walls and had to move their lines ) never tried relics but if it’s buried you can find it with rods, there are times you get a false signal for whatever reason so it’s not perfect but it does work for me thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

[@__WJK__]

It surprises me how so few (if any) science teachers show dowsing rods to their students!?? Dowsing rods are definitely a thing & they definitely work, however (given their simplicity) they're of course not going to out-perform modern electronic equipment (in most cases) but given how easy they are to make, and that they work at all, is pretty fascinating and amazing.

[@48thstateprospecting]

@@__WJK__ very true

[@rastaralph7154]

I like dowsing too. You can find whatever your looking for. When you use a hazel stick it's hard to lift it up. ❤️💛💚👍👌

[@branchdangler1st]

I really find that hard to believe!

[@rastaralph7154]

@@branchdangler1st watch videos about dowsing for gold! It really doesn't matter if you believe or not it works!

[@reelingminnesota2855]

We call it witching around here. I've used those little flag wires that electric/gas companies use to mark lines when I do it. We always double check where they have marked lines if we are digging and it's saved us a few times when they have miss marked or just plan missed lines underground. It definitely works but not everyone is able to do it. Had a foreman that didn't believe me one time that there was something where we wanted to dig and he then dug there and broke a gas line. He never questioned it again after that.

[@chuckcrunch1]

lol

[@johnstewart9745]

Saw a man dowsing for metal water pipe and buried drains in a massive field 1960s , found all he looked for in four or five hours 🇬🇧

[@Joel-McConnell]

I have found veins of quartz that contained free milling gold using dowsing.....

[@aguadigger]

🤔🤔🌲

[@meehere7414]

Used them to find drain tile in fields, they work,

[@mariannerogers3702]

Lol!

[@davidsidwell8749]

I know it works to find water pipes and water to drill for. But I have heard of them used to find other things. All I found was water lol.

[@kaylawilliquette5015]

Love you uncle Jesse I'm so proud of the amazing people you are meeting

[@billynewton8241]

A dowsing we will go think their might be a song there lol

[@windrider23]

When I worked as a electrician we tried this while waiting for the underground survey company to find utilities. It always worked that we could douse the area as well as the detectors the underground survey company used. We just couldn't distinguish between water, gas, or electric.

[@patrickjirschele8076]

Back in the '70s a Chief Telephone Technician in the Coast Guard showed me how to find buried cable using #6 copper wire. I have found cable and water pipe. If there is a lot of crap in the ground, all bets are off. Never tried to find something small.

[@endgovernmentextremism]

Reporting in.

[@chadthompson642]

Hocus pocus.......I feel like this started out as a joke and it's still a joke.

[@pauliegee78]

Hey Chig! My grampa could tell you how deep and how much cubic feet it was running when he water witched . People would and did hire him for this talent . Tried it myself many times , it does work . Take care now .

[@foobar3139]

More reliable than modern “Science!”

[@artsimpson3670]

It works, and I've seen it, but not for everybody. Diviners use mulberry branches. I had a well dug in Iowa based on this and there was water at 60'. When I do it, it doesn't work, but if I hold hands with somebody (1 in their left and one in my right) for whom it does work, then it will work. Let that be a lesson to ya. Aloha, lao Shi Art

[@aquachigger]

I've done it enough to see that there is something going on like, when they cross for me over and over again when I walk back and forth over certain areas. I can't explain that.

[@artsimpson3670]

@@aquachigger It definitely works for some. I've seen it several times. But not for me. No, I don't know how - some say Satanic?? But the force is strong and if using fresh wood like mulberry branches, and the pieces are held tightly, they will move forcefully and strip the bark off in your hand. Aloha

[@henrybucki7813]

ive used one it is very strange how it does move. .i used a piece of a brazing rod that i bent part silver part copper i believe then you hold them just right between your fingers so they can swing .

[@JayCoww]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon

[@camoplumber]

I've been a plumber all my life....and the lucky backhoe operator. In my town....they mark utilities....other than the water line. I use those rods to find the waterline and it works 100% of the time. Only time it fails is if there's been a wet season and will cross on a root of a water maple. Don't know how it works...but for buried water lines....100%

[@reelingminnesota2855]

I've found gas lines that were missed when people were out marking there area before digging for sewer lines. The only time we hit a gas line was when a new foreman wouldn't believe me something was there and he ended up cutting the gas line. He never questioned me again about it.

[@andymuskopf8473]

How do they respond when you walk over a pile of bullshit?

[@orlandominichiello]

likely found a privy and civil war bottles

[@tstuff89]

Interesting video

[@huntingtreasure8855]

I HAVE SOME HENS TEETH LOL

[@neillh]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@oleradiodudea.m.4735]

Wonder what would happen using them in a cemetery.

[@orlandominichiello]

A few false ghost signals😊

[@Aquabob1]

Guy above said he could find bodies, tell if they were male or female….and which end was the head…….. YES…..in a cemetery….🤣

[@robertmartin2387]

Not everyone can dowse. If you can,it doesn't make any difference how close together you hold them,I've held both in 1 hand and have always had good luck with them.

[@30TONWARMACHINE]

Nonsense

[@andrewdavies4604]

I've seen and know a good many people who can successfully dowse. I've tried multiple times, in multiple different ways, and never had anything that could be called success. Odd, but I just accept it.

[@PunkinHeadDJT]

Hey Chigg, get a magic 8-ball!

[@show-metreasure3438]

We call them "witching sticks" where I'm from, I've used them to find water and lateral lines, just make them out of wire coat hangers, I'm to cheap to buy them 😬

[@normawinton6832]

I used them once and dug a watch fob right where they crossed. It works

[@j.b.4340]

It’s science. I find graves with them. You have to tell the rods what you’re target is.

[@bill_lumbergh]

I used a pair of dowsing rods to find my first wife.... because I forgot where I buried her

[@asgayaajigeeyuui7152]

If there's any truth to dowsing the key would probably be the state of mind; the rods are only the tool.

[@debispilker4392]

Great video!

[@Deus-Too]

If I sell my metal detectors, and buy dowsing rods, do I get free software updates? 🤢

[@raynin]

I'm Late!

[@aquachigger]

Not yet!

[@DR_SOLO]

Chigg, you need to have a piece of gold in your hand touching a rod. A gold wedding band would be fine but want to find gold nugget, well you need to hold a GOLD NUGGET. The rods need to sit into a piece of pipe with a cap on the bottom so that they can be free of any pressure tension or friction from moisture in your hands. For instance take a piece of copper wire wrap say like the handle of a hammer or the handle of your socket wrench driver handle. And make sure that your end of The Wire double backs on itself up in the bottom. And pull the copper wire part a little bit and then drop the dowsing rods into your Carpenter spring coils handles that you made so that the rods can move freely

[@MikeMcInroe]

I wonder if it works on gold?!!! And I think this sort of thing works better for some than others...not sure if it has allot to do with a persons electromagnetic fields, etc....of which I know very little about! Mike in lovely central Florida

[@vintageintheraw7730]

Dowsing rods work for water, definitely. It may also work for anything you are searching for.

[@carlgruver695]

It works I use to find water lines and sewer lines with the rods and was 100% on target

[@SolidStateSoul]

Dowsing rods = the original metal detector.

[@mux1978]

Dowsing works. Sometimes, but it works.

[@HollisCKoon]

Sounds like Chigg re-recorded the guitars !

[@lindagreen1105]

Chigg it works but you may have found water instead of metal. I witched my present water well.