Is Dowsing Bullshit?

[@carlosa.3703]

The branch on top of his head follows the contour of his head perfectly.

[@jbrannon509]

You have got to be shitting me! I noticed that and then looked in the comments for unrelated comments and you noticed it too! 😄

[@kehbab]

Hahahaha

[@sharpskilz]

Maybe its intentionanl and hes giving himself a crown of thorns

[@archeanpast3534]

Sammy, Sam SAM Sam...you right, dat mean he full of it.

[@TylerWelch1987]

I can't unsee this.

[@haroldrull4943]

Followed the same method to find underground water source but then it leads me to a nearby brewery, end up having a beer instead.

[@asphyxiaa]

I like how he's so clear with the title

[@420-v3z]

I liked this comment then i disliked cuz its at 69 likes

[@renn0k402]

Same

[@renn0k402]

@@420-v3z same lol

[@shawnl661]

I find that if you stumble around drunk and naked in the dark you can find water

[@renn0k402]

Lol yah

[@420-v3z]

@@renn0k402 yes

[@renn0k402]

@@420-v3z interesting, I commented on this like half a year ago and someone replied lmao

[@mazzywinters8133]

D.u.m.b. ass

[@doughouston5472]

Not really...that doesn't explain how we can fine pipelines in yards else it would react literally everywhere. It doesnt

[@armymobilityofficer9099]

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.

[@EmazingGuitar]

Water is just about everywhere

[@armymobilityofficer9099]

@@EmazingGuitar It is So is oxygen but someone can still drown.

[@1974pieter]

True...willow is the best to use

[@bradwhalen2000]

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 KZbin… Searching for the science behind why.

[@williamhawkins6504]

there is no science its bullshit

[@jordangreyling8820]

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.

[@willeveryday]

If dowsing works with metal rods, why don't we use a compass? That should show disturbances in the earth's magnetic field.

[@TheRm65]

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.

[@rexluminus9867]

@@TheRm65 TRUE. THX.☝️

[@doughouston5472]

I will try this tomorrow.

[@steveturansky9031]

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.

[@daywalkerusa2114]

Dumbass

[@jakiesenn8624]

My thing is I always ask people how they work. Nobody can tell you. Because, surprise, it's bullshit.

[@thomascleveland]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

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.

[@1zbossz]

😂

[@ANONM60D]

​@@doughouston5472it doesn't have a certain depth. It has no practical application and functions almost identically to a ouija board.

[@Hadrada.]

@@ANONM60Dyou ever done a ouija board?

[@RD-gu7te]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@Imugi007]

Well it doesn't work. So. There's that.

[@derekpierce2447]

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.

[@Anonymous-ee8ef]

No they don’t

[@LansaDiag]

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.

[@syitiger9072]

They actually work tho

[@rashadabdullah9769]

@@LansaDiag have an understanding. Not a understanding.

[@LansaDiag]

@@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?

[@Metalcool36]

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

[@DoubleMonoLR]

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.

[@billyraub8197]

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

[@codymoore1248]

@@billyraub8197 yes but most of time its a pretty straight shot yall are clinging to threads lol

[@NorthPoleJeff]

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.

[@92RB20Monster]

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.

[@022rty]

As a municipal water department employee, I can tell you it's pure bullshit

[@aceggkspade958]

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

[@jbrannon509]

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!

[@jasonk876]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@jakiesenn8624]

​@@jasonk876so confidently wrong lol

[@jasonk876]

​@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.

[@jakiesenn8624]

@@jasonk876 hey man, in the end what I think doesn’t count. Locating the water lines is all that really counts lol

[@TheTigero]

The secret is that there’s water basically everywhere 😂

[@michaelwalsh9145]

So why don’t the rods stay crossed then?

[@masonart4950]

@@michaelwalsh9145 dude. You're missing the point.... Why are they ever UNcrossed if water is everywhere? Which it is btw.

[@bring6not12]

@@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.

[@troyt6532]

@@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.

[@bring6not12]

@@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.

[@kaIIie]

Every video I've watched about dousing rods has this weird fandom. You would have thought dowsing rods were a band with their weirdly defensive fans.

[@iainthomas5809]

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.

[@maluinthe90s]

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?

[@carlmartin1]

“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 ?

[@111000100101001]

Which way do the rods point if your standing in the middle of a puddle?

[@Unforgiven1997]

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.

[@SamuraiOfHentai]

you are dumb?

[@Unforgiven1997]

@@SamuraiOfHentai I don't respond to idiots

[@SamuraiOfHentai]

​@@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?

[@codybanks9944]

@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 :~)

[@Coxy-b34]

@@Unforgiven1997 But dont you see,you're the idiot.

[@chris2884]

I like how is anecdote refutes centuries of successful use

[@mikeup7517]

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.

[@abbytran8514]

Fu-cking WITCHCRAFT

[@WhompingWalrus]

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

[@doughouston5472]

@@WhompingWalrus Strange words for BASIC PHYSICS

[@doughouston5472]

@@abbytran8514 just physics

[@RavenRedwood]

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)_/¯

[@BROfromnorth]

We can use them to locate electrical cables too. And the electromagnetic field isn’t big enough for it to affect the rods, but it still works.

[@jetset808]

they work.. I'm not saying that they find water but they do move on their own and you can sqeeze as hard as you can and it still moves

[@bottmar1]

@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.

[@TheSomnambule]

Definitely works for electrical utilities. I build powerline and guys can get it bang on with this method

[@Jumper15ful]

Gas lines too.

[@randygrider]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

works on moving water too..it creates electricity

[@zakattack4274]

I’m an assistant driller and I called bullshit on an old timer and he’s been right every time

[@Hey_Bros]

That's because there's water everywhere. It just depends how deep you drill.

[@zakattack4274]

It's worked on utilities too

[@WhompingWalrus]

@@zakattack4274 Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

[@doughouston5472]

@@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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@juniperburton7693]

@@WhompingWalrus You can't just say that. You have to actually debunk what he's saying.

[@fivexfiver]

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.

[@abacab87]

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.

[@jakiesenn8624]

Dude was a specialist. He knew where your tank is before he pulled out his magic rods.

[@jakiesenn8624]

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.

[@joselynagoncillo8744]

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.

[@declanp1]

Dousing is bullshit

[@christianheidt5733]

Thanks for the great explanation!!! 👍

[@mrkrazyeddydog1419]

Should hurry up and show it ended up changing it I just want to see it and he never does

[@gmasstudios]

Where is the wise gentleman in the thumbnail I don’t see it

[@tophercIaus]

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]

Maybe it is just some invisible fields around the Earth that rods can tap into like the same one birds or bees use.

[@tophercIaus]

@@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.

[@jasonk876]

@@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]

@@jasonk876 I have 2 statements for that. 1) Good luck claiming your $1m. 2) No you can't.

[@jasonk876]

@@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.

[@1966cambo]

I have used rods many times and I do not manipulate the rods in any way, walk forward and rods cross, back up and rods uncross. I have not drilled for water in any of these spots but I have no explanation why the rods do this.

[@1onekid]

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.

[@tommysanfilippo3165]

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.

[@jeffa.8976]

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]

They're supposed to point inward. So..........yeah... explain that, Einstein.

[@doughouston5472]

@@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.

[@doughouston5472]

@@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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@Imugi007]

@@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.

[@Unethical.FandubsGames]

@@doughouston5472 No. It's just NOT SCIENCE at all. You fucking potato.

[@liamliam5341]

Can you explain how they find utility lines with the sticks?

[@kweidnernc]

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.

[@KandiKlover]

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.

[@1onekid]

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.

[@mussessd6032]

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.

[@randygrider]

You are wrong. You have a closed mind. You never tried it.

[@doughouston5472]

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.

[@shaunb1414]

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.

[@WhompingWalrus]

A whole lot of things have been claimed for thousands of years, but ever since the camera was invented, seems a whole lot of them suddenly stopped.

[@frankiefernandez5252]

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.

[@PepePig-th6sy]

This is just an outright lie no it doesn't lol

[@Lindsey578]

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

[@ScotchLizardman]

Isn't bedrock like a thousand meters down? 325 feet doesn't seem shallow but if bedrock is actually that deep, that would be less than half the distance

[@zacharywing5764]

I am a well driller and have drilled dry holes then had them witched and sure enough 30 ft away there’s a vein of water

[@aswhiteassnow5087]

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!

[@gettingpast4391]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

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.

[@capt.taylor9376]

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]

Trevor Taylor oh so he wasn’t...magic?

[@rashadabdullah9769]

Put the leads of an ohm meter in each hand and squeeze them. Some ppl have more resistance than others. So yea this can be fact.

[@jasonk876]

@@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.

[@vinchetti_spaghetti]

They only work if you believe 🤣🤣

[@doughouston5472]

It has nothing to do with ability. It has something to do with how energy flows through the individual person.

[@mahalaleelforever4806]

It does work with water and gas pipes, I use to work in construction and we found our lines that way,

[@WhompingWalrus]

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

[@clay1883]

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.

[@TrevorDennis100]

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.

[@Shaggy_matt]

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]

Trickery.

[@jdearr1]

@@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

[@whackly]

@@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.

[@whackly]

@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.

[@jdearr1]

@@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?

[@I12Cewe]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@codybanks9944]

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.

[@Demigord]

It's caused by you having eyes and nerves in your legs

[@bassmatters1012]

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.

[@rexluminus9867]

Great idea. All the best to you. Please let us know. Thank you.

[@zile8869]

Any update on that yet?

[@bassmatters1012]

@@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.

[@5446isnotmynumber]

@@bassmatters1012 who paid you to write this BS?

[@bassmatters1012]

@@5446isnotmynumber sshhh their listening

[@TheRm65]

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.

[@TWINTURBO864]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@Dr.Stanny]

So you state it’s accurate ie it works but you’re still on the fence about it? Lol it works. Go do it

[@Justinsox39]

I use them all the time. Haven’t been wrong yet on finding sewer lines and water lines under ground

[@Silent33091]

ideomotor response

[@randombruh3033]

@@Silent33091 Lol not really. Ive seen people find water lines while not even having a clue where they are.

[@brandonboyd2500]

Found 5 in the last 2 days it works I don't know how but it do lol

[@BoPuska]

hate for you to get the two confused....😂

[@Zelousfear]

Thought they were voodoo BS. made a pair and found my water and sewer lines.

[@WizardOfWhoopee]

I can do it, it works fine for me. Any L-shaped rod or even wooden sticks.

[@geraldwegener8376]

I specialize in searching for oil in Kentucky with many years experience and available to search private land.

[@Dazzles10]

As one pro well digger said - 99% of the time anywhere you dig you're going to find water, it's only a question of how deep you gotta go to get it

[@michaelwalsh9145]

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.

[@Dazzles10]

@@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.

[@doughouston5472]

That's a copout from someone who has no clue. Watch the video and hose experiment at the end. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@JohnWVarner]

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.

[@aceggkspade958]

I’ve used them first time and was 27 for 27 on finding pipes.

[@jeadoretu]

Awesome. What kind of branches you use

[@hos-joubostokolos2488]

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.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

I'm pretty certain he's joking...

[@beautifulchaos7041]

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.

[@mikemeetstec]

Doing research, it has to do with magnetism and the copper rods being attracted to magnetic ores in the ground such as loadstone- apparently.

[@chris432t6]

Short and down to earth. Thank you!

[@doughouston5472]

Yeh, and also his video is BS. This one is better kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@V4RGIFY]

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.

[@ENGR-od7ft]

Civil engineer here - Yes indeed ! It works ! In cree communities they use this all the time to locate aqueduc pipes.

[@Bodragon]

*+ENGR2017* - Haha! What bullshit. Calls himself a civil engineer and he can't even spell aquaduct. All these morons giving themselves fancy titles.

[@deftmute]

@@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.

[@coloradomountainman8659]

@@Bodragon Yo Bodragon, you simple minded idiot. Engr2017 is a civil engineer. Not an English teacher. What are you, the internet spelling guru?

[@KandiKlover]

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.

[@robertyoung7642]

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.

[@appealtoreason7584]

So things that are very prevalent and don’t take long to find? Lmao

[@davidg4512]

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.

[@willcook4174]

Another opinion from someone who's never tried it. It's pretty simple and it works. I've found pipe and wires with them.

[@Demigord]

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

[@petyrkowalski9887]

This is known as a rhetorical question.

[@sinajakelic]

ok but why are they always spot on and it’s a tradition for hundreds of years

[@57fu]

Because we know there's water down there

[@sinajakelic]

@@57fu ah ok.. so they are basically scammers?

[@57fu]

@@sinajakelic I ll believe them when they find water in the desert bro

[@sinajakelic]

@@57fu i always suspected they fake it

[@backyardbuilttrucks1]

They work i used them to find a water line. First time and they work.

[@ridermacleod423]

I bet you don’t believe in Father Christmas either…..

[@rkoppie115]

Just try it. Worked for me though walking over an iron drainage lid. Maybe because I can see the lid as well and it influencing the brain and motorics somehow. But apparently there are enough people around having success with it over buried metal. Bit mystified still about why this would work but I believe it now.

[@realitycheckrealitycheck9008]

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.

[@KandiKlover]

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.

[@fxm5715]

I suspect it's closely related to the prevalence of superstition in professional sports. When there's a lot riding on your performance and the feedback you get is intermittent and unpredictable, the human mind finds patterns and reinforces belief. I think many people honestly believe in dowsing, though it is completely unfounded, and they are not bullshitting you. There certainly are others, however, who are more than happy to take advantage of other people's honest ignorance. That is total bullshit.

[@cameron3525]

superstition is different than spiritualism. Divining rods have been practiced for a long time with some crazy results. My father in law actually gets paid by the Canadian gov to do it...

[@fxm5715]

@@cameron3525 Sadly, the fact that the government pays for something does not at all mean it's legitimate or credible. :) I'm speaking as someone who has worked on many federal, state, and local government contracts.

[@cameron3525]

@@fxm5715 you are definitely right--but I'm just saying that you should see it firsthand. There arent many examples on youtube that do it justice.

[@doughouston5472]

Nope, just related to basic physics and kinetic energy kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@steadyflow3790]

You should get a couple of wire clothes hangers and try it for yourself. An easy place for it to work is in a cemetery. Walk over a grave and it’ll work. Works great for finding water lines and gas lines in yards.

[@ryananthony4840]

It works dude, my dad showed me how to find the gas line and water line yrs ago, he worked for the local utility company for over 40 years and learned from the old-timers..... I didn't believe it until it happened in my hands lol.... and I mean I went to several neighbors yards since I already knew where ours was

[@charlielamb4606]

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

[@firefox2364]

They do work however the water has to be running, we have found many wells using this technique, it wont work with still water

[@highbread5439]

Care to explain why it works? Or are you just going to talk bullshit without proof?

[@CanyonF]

@@highbread5439 the only thing i could possibly guess is that water may carry some sort of magnetic dust in it as it runs underwater, and that metal rods would be effective. but obviously scientific equipment with sensors and shit would be much more accurate and useful...but of course more epxensive. i dont think these things work at all lol

[@doughouston5472]

@@highbread5439 This was two years ago, Hopefully you found your answer. I got on here just now because I was trying to find other research on this. It is actually simple science. Why are power plants always next to water? The energy creates electricity. Flowing water itself - kinetic energy. Electromagnetic currents are formed. Your body is also a medium of electricity. It has been two years. Have you gotten two coat hangers and made your a device and test it yet? It works. You literally can feel the magnetic pull.

[@doughouston5472]

@@highbread5439 Go spread your water hose out. Use your coat hangers and walk over it when the water is off. Nothing. Now turn on the hose. Do it again. The wires will cross.

[@OriginalGamerPr0]

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

[@Rendezvous70]

Iv herd that dousing rods are really good at finding magnets

[@dannyhightower5531]

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.

[@doughouston5472]

exactly. Electromagnetic fields is science. People don't understand science.

[@jleedw]

I witch with a saw. I not only tell you where but how deep to drill. My mom did this and my sister has gift too. My paternal grandmother did it with a Cherry wood switch but that doesn’t tell you how deep. The only way to prove it to someone is to have them put arms around you and try to hold the saw still. It is impossible. Sometimes it jumps right out of my hands.

[@lunarrn]

Do you have a KZbin channel of you doing this? Sounds exciting to see

[@strangevideos3048]

This method always work,my father and grandpa uses this method for years.I tried several time and it work !!!!

[@7Maleficus]

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.

[@awesome7732]

it doesnt work at all. its been scientifically disproven. look up the ideomotor effect

[@maddogmaz1576]

If it doesnt work explain how I found my buried well at my house that I just bought.

[@leroyjohnson156]

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.

[@MrJonnyq3]

@TheGuyMain I can confirm this works, saw some old timer doing it on KZbin, 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.

[@TheHealingHandsDuo]

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!

[@daveweaver61427]

I worked for a small town over 25 years ago and we used them to locate water lines for repair or mark for digging... they really do work. Not sure why because I didn't believe it but they work.

[@bring6not12]

our bodies or brain have an subconscious sense of electromagnetic fields the rods are just an indicator of what our bodies tell us. i use dowsing to find platinum and diamond deposits in california, you try finding 20 gem qual diamonds in one boil hole using only a sense of low pressure zones 😂

[@noodlepancak783]

@@bring6not12 do you make money selling these diamonds?

[@doughouston5472]

@@bring6not12 Nothing to do with your mind. It is simple physics. The running water creates electricity.

[@allenstyer2690]

@@doughouston5472 explain the simple physics of running water creating electricity and how its enough force to turn rods in your hands

[@tomriley1413]

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

[@aaronbunyan2237]

How is it even a question that crosses peoples minds

[@WysteriaGuitar]

My wife found our remote controller with it. I kid you not it worked...

[@jasonk876]

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!

[@WhompingWalrus]

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

[@Erin-bd6jg]

Okay they work. Now tell me how. All of humanity is waiting on your answer.

[@jasonk876]

@@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.

[@jasonk876]

@@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 ...

[@doughouston5472]

@@WhompingWalrus kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U literal proof of it working 100% of the time on water hoses. Just stop with your fake responses.

[@maythemysticmuse4071]

trust and open mindedness helps for accuracy and effectiveness of using dowsing for divining. Close mindedness and disbelief will cause interference and inconsistency.

[@emmonsracing3470]

I cant speak for trying to located ground water for wells but I locate water and sewer lines for my city. Its within feet every time.

[@MihovilCota]

Dowsing rods and other equipment moves because you move them? YES. Its the hole point. The key is for the person using them to understand why he moves them in that location. Something like this would satisfy a rational explenation: even tough you can feel every muscle and tone of every muscle in your body doesent meen you do without practice. Even tough you can hear meny sonds in the background doesent mean you listen to them. Our brains filter a lot of information because we find them irrelevant. I takes a lot of practice for an athlete to control the tonus of every single muscle involved in a movement as does a musician to hear only the notes he is playing. It takes time, a lot of time... The same is with dowsing, it takes time to understand why your body moves (in this case tiny movements of rods). The question for you is: Can you move your toes individualy? Yes. How? Try stepping on a crocked surface (rock) barefoot; every finger will move in its direction and have a different tonus, if it doesent you will likely be out of balance and fall. The same ability of toe movement and tonization can be aquiered volountarily after a lot of practice. So the question is: what did that dousers body find , why did it move those rods? Water, void, something else...? Dishonesty maybe - there is always a chance. To wrap this up: dowsing rods and other equipment moving is unvolontarily MUSCLE CONTROLED movement induced by a disturbance that our nervous system feels. The key to good dowsing is to answer what type of that disturbance is. Highly trained water finders don´t even your dowsing rods because they can feel tiny muscle tonization and movement without seeing the dowsing rods move and know to a certain degree of certanty why thy moved at that spot. Unlucikly there is no way of testing their claims until a hole is dug or until we understand the underlaying mechanism of this phenomena and make a computer. I would say that it is similar to people who can do complex mathematical equations "in their head". We, regular people, don´t know if they are right until we chek on paper, that takes a lot of time. They have that ability due to number of factors plus practice. Until we made calculators same conclusions were made about them. I hope that all who do water finding are ethical in their aproach and have clear intentions.

[@robertshrewsbury2891]

Dowsing, Divining? I have been doing this for a good share of my life as did my Uncle's before me. I have now done over 300 blind tests and am doing well with this. Usually I dowse a photo (first) from Google Earth to find the target. I dowse for precious metals, water, gems, tunnels & Archaeological places and etc. Sometimes when I run into someone that is cynical about Dowsing or my detection work I offer to pull up their (with their permission of course) house on Google Earth and find & tell them where they hid their values, then I email the marked photo to them and then listen to them express their now broken apart disbelief. It has been fun shaking up "Doubting Thomas's" However it is ultimately good for them to see. Cordially, Robert

[@MasterTiccu]

You're completely insane my guy

[@robertshrewsbury2891]

@@MasterTiccu "So was Jesus"?

[@doughouston5472]

No, that's not how it even works. You can't possibly find electromagnetic fields in the manner you are speaking.

[@omaroliblish]

@@doughouston5472 Ewe sound like a glib, pedantic, sesquipedalian, dilettante, Millennial opening your oral-cavity and spewing out labial-dental-guttural-verbiage from your lower orifice/sphincter. Don’t get any on yourself! “It is not what goes in a person that defiles them, but what comes out of them” I think that Ewe are the South end of a North traveling Jack, and so you bray’s and gas’s a lot! Ewe can start by finding out who Ewe really are and come to terms with it, then at least Ewe will have some truth, however diminutive your “truth” may be. So then get over your Entitlement-Complex, Get off of your Drug-habits and get off of your bum and get out of the house and go to work. Politicians will entertain Ewe (with general offers that they do not keep and so Ewe can daydream temporally & temporarily) Politicians do not come through with their promising s, so don’t be conned by these “Snake oil Salesmen” any longer. Reality may be startling to Ewe at first, but then Ewe will find it worth the effort in time, weight & measure. When Ewe do finally find out who and what Ewe really are then you will stop being a Ewe and become a Real YOU and be part of the civilized world in the Human Race! I think that the Biden-Far-Left followers have become Sycophant Toady’s. They are behaving obsequiously towards someone they think is important, without checking facts or the/re directions or the results. Further, the media capitulates pretty much to the big corporations, who vicariously fund them legally, but not lawfully, using legal technicalities and serpentine maneuvers. In earlier days (when we were less politically correct and oriented), we truthfully called this phenomena “bribery”, “graft”, “Shell Corporations” and “501-C Charity”, used to create and hide immorality, etc. I love the word “EMeT”. It is a Hebrew word, that means, “Gods Truth from the beginning to the middle and then all the way to the end”. Sincerely, Robert

[@leonelburciaga3050]

Great video, loved the joke at the end and the cautious reasoning throughout.

[@doughouston5472]

Then watch this and you can see this video is a joke kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4jCqXeOedl3o8U

[@NOMADdaf]

I live in indiana and there is virtually no place where you won't hit water.

[@ironhorse3497]

I (just like you) was very skeptical as well, until someone let me use their rods on my father's property. I was able to unbelievably accurately locate both a buried water line and a septic line that I did not know the location of. After hand digging, I was right on top of them both. I was within literally about 8 inches of them both - I had marked my locations with flags. I was able to do it over and over again and mark the course of both lines. The divining rods did converge in my hands, and I sure didn't consciously make them do it. I think that if I had known the location of the lines prior to dowsing, one could argue that I subconsciously moved or somehow affected the movement of the rods - but I honestly did not know where the lines were. Anyways, I have no idea HOW they work - but they sure worked for me even though I didn't "believe". Not a sermon, just a thought. :)

[@makim-k5850]

You guessed correctly. That's literally all that happened.

[@TheTyyohe]

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.

[@thomasisking]

One can either divine or not. Those who cannot mostly brush it off as bs and those who can know they can. Those who can, often vary in that it can work better on certain materials, eg I can divine metal but not water. I am an earth scientist by profession with many years experience and believe the phenomenon is related to the earth's potential fields and our ability to connect to them. I have not researched it, because it is not something that I use. However, I do have a passing interest in it because it certainly works for me with metals and metal rods.

[@thomasisking]

@@oscarj0231 Several decades ago, when I was a little kid, my father used to take me divining. It worked really well with him. I remember a farmer asking my father to divine in a westerly part of an open fallow field to look for water courses. Father found some odd signals with various crossings. I knew nothing more until years later when the farmer's son told that a Roman villa had subsequently been found there. Make sure you check any local farmers out, if you find you can divine. BTW, you'll know straight away if you can. Try going under a telephone line coming into the house, to check if it works for you. If you pick up metal, it'll line straight up and you'll immediately know.

[@erinnfitzgerald6257]

Dowsing rods & pendulums do work but there's wrong & right ways of using them including how we hold them, how the questions are worded, how they shouldn't be used if we're emotional &/or if think we may know the answer & are biased re what we're wanting to know etc. We also need to do a lot of regualr practice for quite a long time, it can take years for some people before they're 100% accurate each time they dowse. Re practise, a good tip is to get 3 paper cups & put a mark in the bottom of one of them, then using one rod, ask it to point to the cup with the mark. Another practise tip using both rods is to ask them to give a yes response when they're in front of the marked cup then moving slowly, hold the rods in front of each cup one at a time & see what response the rods give... I learnt to dowse approx 15 years ago, I had been using a pendulum for years but it wasn't always correct. The man who taught me, Pat, was 90 years old & he'd been dowsing professionally for over 60 years. I scored 100% in each experiment & test Pat set for me & others who did his dowsing course- I was the only one who had 100% results so I felt pretty chuffed about that, lol... I'm a Reiki Master, meditation & spiritual development teacher & more & I often use dowsing rods & pendulums in my healings. For healings I use my favourite pendulum (an "Ask Bob" pendulum & it's amazing) for chakra work & my copper rods to show problem areas in the physical body & more. I also use my rods to find things I've lost, when I do that I only use 1 rod & I ask it to point to the area where the lost item is- it's been accurate every time!

[@messierthirtyone777]

Ultimate test is to leave the "expert" in a desert with no water bottle and ask him/her to find water to survive. The rods better swing 🤣