Dowsing / Witching a well. Does it work? Thousands of $ later we find out. Definitively answered.
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- Old timers used a technique called dowsing or witching before they drilled wells. We spend thousands of $$$ and see if it works.
I use this when I’m mapping cave systems and used to use it when I was a Pipeliner to locate the main
My dad was a telephone lineman for Pacific Bell (later ATT) from the 80’s - early 2000’s and he and the other old engineers would use the metal rods version to find cables buried under ground that needed replacing or to map really old ones. Rods were Company issued!
Pacific bell also passed out to there workers “standardized plugs” that workers would take home and put in there wives asses since they were technically enough in length and girth to be butt plugs. But hey i guess that rod was probably an anal plug retriever if it gets too deep.
Still are for a lot of companies.
We still use them on occasion to find underground power lines before the locator comes out to mark them just to see how close we can get.
I dont believe you can dowse for water but i wave also seen ibew linemen dowse lines out of the ground with scary accuracy
Also a lineman here. Very common. Wish I could explain how it worked. Would be the key.
My Grandpa was a master plumber pipe fitter started when he was 16 and continued well into his 80s.. I remember watching him take two bent coat hangers and walk around until they cross.. wherever they would cross there would be water...
I even remember watching him find unmarked water lines..he would dig them up and they would be right there.....believe what you want to believe, but I've seen it with my own eyes
Can you be more specific? Copper hangers? How long?
Yeah, it's definitely one of those things that sounds insane but once you see it you just can't deny it
@@alyasfukename3355 It's not real. there is ground water everywhere. And if you could get a magnetic field from water in a pipe standing still, we would have free energy across the entire globe.
Two old timers dowsed the well at our house when I was a kid. The first came in dowsed, picked up a strong stream, and my dad marked it with a small pebble. The second guy came, dowsed, and he came to the exact same place as did the prior gentleman. The well was drilled, the drillers hit water at 103 feet, and they drilled down to 120 feet. The problem that we ever had was (years later in a very wet season), sand began to leak into the well, and it was starting to stop up our jet pump. We changed it to a submersible pump, and we decided to pump it clear to the bottom to clean out any sand in the bottom, and we could not pump it dry. We were pumping about 25 to 30 gallons per minute.
They found water because groundwater is everywhere and aquifers can be a mile wide.
There's water underground. The real test it drilling where they say there is no water.
lol yeah its total BS. drill anywhere you will hit water just a matter of how deep. buddy works for Arcadia drilling and they dont use witches at all and have never not hit water
I think a better 'real test' would be to have a dowser come in AFTER they find 'no water', dowse a spot, drill and find water.
It's a test that I have seen conducted...and passed. The dowser put the driller into water within 60' of the surface after the driller had drilled three other spots to as much as 200'; the driller didn't pass through water at 60' on the way down either.
:}} that's funny
drill two wells, one where they say it's the best spot and one where they say there is very little or no water.
both wells will produce the same amount of water because science :}
But considering wells were hand dug do you think there is something to the depth of the water to be had?
@@duroxkilo a total lack of understanding of underground geologic formations. Science does NOT back you up.
The mind is also a natural dowsing rod. Me grandfather, Pat Patterson, was a witcher aka dowser for water wells. He did that for free and located many wells for people. Even though he and me grandmother was raising four children in a one bedroom house. He constructed a barn/bedrooms to the house, he painted a 50 gallon barrel put it on the roof to heat water for the family one room bath tub. If you were the oldest child then you were 1st. to take a bath. The youngest child, well, let's just say that after three kids use to the same bath water it's not the hot or warm anymore and it's a little bit dirty as well.
He hunted and fished for food. I suspect that he mind dowsed for hunting, especially whenever he went fishing because he always knew where to cast the fishing rod for the best fish. He had me cast in three different areas and I always either had a very good hit or caught a nice size fish.
One thing I'd like to make very clear to those who've never used a branch to douse, and have used only the rods. The "feeling" is totally different. I've used both. The rods move but with little resistance since they are inside cylinders usually and you do not feel a downward strong force because they are designed to rotate horizontally to the ground, whereas when the branch begins to "pull" downward, it is as though a man has grabbed the end of your branch and is literally forcibly pulling it down in a STRONG way. It feels like someone or something, is physically pulling down on the branch you are holding. And pulling HARD. But there isn't anyone there! It is a crazy, unexplainable sensation.
It's also known as gravity
@@craigandrew6409 I would lean more toward magnetism of some sort. Gravity is theory that applies to heavy objects but leaves a butterfly to flutter...he's referring to a strong forceful pull..
Yeah! So crazy! Almost fake it's so crazy! Stop guys a stick won't find water 160' deep in the ground. It's silly, it's preposterous. I know so many of you have completely and totally bought into it but the reality it ground water is everywhere. They don't know how much or how deep.... hmmm... so pretty much yeah you can just slap a spot anywhere and start drilling. You might hit water at 15' you might hit it at 2000' we don't know. But we definitely know there is at least 3 gallons of water right here in this spot. Lol I can't believe the crazy shit some of yall fall for!
@@craigandrew6409 if gravity all of a sudden started PULLING something down when it didn't just a secondary ago.....what would that mean?? Extra gravity lol
@@AngieCee1 A subtle twist of the wrist, gravity does the rest
Beautiful piece of property. Such a great view.
I have a neighbor who wants to take about 0.8 acres of our land through adverse possession. One of their tactics is to hide their plastic gutter downspout drain extensions which were buried 12 years go by their original house owner under their lawn and onto our property which was unoccupied at the time. I realized it after watching their pattern of behavior, always walking on my land and looking for something in the same places. Then one early morning we caught the lady escorting a contractor to the property line and him sneaking around in the woods on our land. I went out and found a dug out plastic pipe exiting into our stream from the direction of their house. Then I found another one of their buried pipes by focusing on other locations they spent a lot of time looking around and just poking in the ground with a trowel. It was easy -- I found it in about 30 minutes. But now I want to know if they have any more so they can't file a quiet tile claim against us for another buried pipe which they may not even know the location of -- because the courts are screwy and may just award them title for a pipe they don't even know about. So I got two wire coat hangers and dowsed my own yard near my house where I know the location of all my buried downspout pipes are my foundation tile drain pipe. It worked. I held two cut wire hangers -- one in each hand so they are at a right angle, and walked slowly and one of them jumped a little but the other one would go haywire just before I got to the buried plastic pipe that likely had little water in it because we have had a drought. I have no idea how or why it works but it does work using a wire hanger for me. Now I am going to go find the neighbor's other pipes -- if they have them. And I will videotape my actions so the court will know how I found them and that they were not otherwise visible and that it works -- so if I dont find one, I'll know with a great likelihood that there isnt one.
There's not a single state where adverse possession allows someone to claim a piece of your property just because of a buried pipe.
@@shawnsg That is not correct. No adverse possession law in any state gets into any specifics except for NY's modified law which does thankfully for the citizens of NY specifies that many specific activities are permissive in nature which makes them non-threatening. But for the rest of the states you have to read the case law to see how the circuit and appeals courts see certain actions and there have been cases in my state where title was determined by the placement and maintenance of a buried drain pipe. Jus google drainage pipe and adverse possession and you'll find articles and some case law that shows this.
I think they make an educated guess based upon experience, lie of the land and such.
According to "the sticks" there was ... no water ... no water ... no water ... no water ... WATER ! According to the Dowsing lore, does that mean that all those places where the sticks were pointing UP there was NO water there? If you dug a well where the sticks were pointing up -- 10 or 20 feet away from the successful well-head -- the well would strike no water??? If I see THAT, a dry well 20 feet from the wet well, maybe then I'll believe in Dowsing.
Also, I note that the dowsing point is near a small ditch. When it rains, the flow of water down a hill carves that ditch and that ground carries more water runoff than other parts of the hill that have no gullies or ditches. Some of that gathered/concentrated water in the ditch will sink into the ground and so it is likely more underground water will be found near (under) the ditch. For that you don't need a dowsing rod, you only need eyes.
My house is in a narrow valley with a year-round vigorous stream. Hundreds of springs create the stream. I'll bet I could dig a well anywhere in the valley and hit water. A dowsing rod would never point to the sky.
When I was taught how to Douse for Water I was AMAZED at the fact that I was holding that branch as tight as I possibly Could and there was a point in time that I could hear the Branch "Creaking" in my hand as it turned down to point at the ground. I COULD NOT stop it from turning. We have a Filled In Well in our yard. I cut a forked branch and Walked the Yard. Then I Taught my Wife and she got the Very Same Results walking the yard that I did and she was convinced that this Really Works. In the video I think that they were walking a bit fast for me.
Right!? I have the same experience you can't hold hard enough to stop it pointing down even when holding like that! So odd there is very few places with explanation on how this happens
What if it did it anyway even if you were standing still, because of the internal stress, like a spring for example
@@krzysztof6123 No idea if that could happen. I just know from my own experience that this is a real phenomenon of the twig twisting itself when walking over certain areas. I can't prove what causes it, if it is or isn't moving water I don't know.
I always heard to hold the rods LOOSELY in your hands.
My grandfather also helped people find wells around Northfield , Nanaimo B.C. on Vancouver Island. My dad told me the story one family friend named Art Brownlie who asked for my grandfathers help. My grandfather made a decision on which spot he considered the best place to dig. The men dug down a fair way and nothing, they stopped to eat lunch and when they returned the well was very full. The only retrieved the ladder, any tools left at the bottom were there for good. Ha Ha! My dad said grandfather Alfred could hold the dowsing switch as tight as could and he would end up with a blister. My dad isn't able to dowse but I am. I haven't done it for years though.
Luck. Just luck.
My father was the same way he could hold the stick so tight it would twist the bark off... He dug in an area where everyone else was drilling dry wells.. not only that he ran the well solid for 4 days straight to fill the swimming pool... He figured that if that didn't dry up the well nothing would.
dowsing is a scam dude.
@@michaelcohen9363 idk man, my coworker doused a 50gpm well at 140ft recently. I'm not fully convinced it's legit, but I'm also not convinced it's a scam. Some people just do weird shit consistently without any scientific evidence to back it up.
@@TrueBolt18 There's always tell-tale signs of underground water. Anywhere near a large tree, areas where there's lots of vegetation but not much else surrounding it, low-points in the ground, etc...
He would've found water if he spun around 3 times and pointed somewhere at the ground too...
There's a reason why every single scientific test debunks dousing/water witching... it's because it's a guessing game.
If you dig deep enough there's literally water under any ground lol
Some people just refuse to believe in the divine and I guess that’s ok. Most people can’t explain conciousness either.
So because consciousness can't be explained by science, that makes this pseudoscience of magic water sticks believable to you? How many Trump voters are on this thing? Jesus Christ! Humanity is doomed with this many idiots wandering around.
I think a better test to prove if this works or not would be to drill a well where the rod did not show water to be and see if they find water or not.
My dad did this, water witching, in East Orange county, Florida, about 50 years ago before having a 4-in well put down about 160 ft. He believed it was true and I tried it and tried it and never was able to get any feeling from it. Fifteen years later,I moved 13 mi away, to the east to build my home. I picked the spot and told the well driller to put it there. He hit fairly decent water several times on the way down. He went down 160 ft and said he found some good water but hit the limestone and decided to drill another 40 or 50 ft. I get lots of water. I have a hand dug well down 18 ft and I get lots of water. I live in Orange county Florida and we live over top of the Floridian aquifer. I think my Dad could have dug anywhere on his property and found water.
dowsing is a scam, that's why.
THis is exactly it. Aquifers are huge and basically everywhere. There are very few places where u won't find water by digging a reasonable depth. The depth u have to dig only changes by centimeters if you move a kilometer.
The only thing that gets me is some people call in a water witch to find leaks in pipes and they seem to be more accurate than not. I just can't explain that.
@@MagnificentXXBastardobviously your nether a well driller nor a geologist. On other hand I'm a third generation driller retired now. Geology changes greatly depending on the area your talking about. The area mentioned at top of this thread your statement would be correct. However that pretty much is isolated to the Florida peninsula. As it's limestone mostly covered with sand from ancient sea. Where I am in the mountains geology is as up and down as the mountains are with volcanic dykes and geothermal springs that have caused uplifting. Water can be very hit or miss and dowsing has proven to be a cheap asset to find water. Technology offers a solution that is more accurate but also expensive where underground radar can be used to find water. I been dowsing since a teenager I can count finger on one hand the times missed and that was only because they were very dry areas where water was hard to get. The land owners chose to take the risk .
Awesome video. Was the branch 2 sticks bundled into a y or one branch trimmed to leave the Y intact?
Had the experience when my supervisor was looking for electrical conduit in an area of field we had to dig at a school! He used #10 solid copper wire and he told us to dig where they crossed so we could know what direction the pipes were going. We dug and I became a believer that day!!
3 things - your supervisor may very well have installed that previously.
- any electrician can quickly identify where a conduit or conductors travel using a tracer
- I can look at most jobs I do and guess exactly where the conduit will run by looking at sources, fixtures, poles ... there are too many context clues.
Great video 😊
Thank you very much stay safe my friend
When I was 9. Yrs old we had a mam come to withh a well and it worked where we were building a house. We had a well dug where the stick pointed and hit water 30 ft down. Dad said this was how everyone found their wells. I remember I was amazed by it.
basically there's water everywhere and dowsers get lucky. you could have drilled 200 feet away and still got results.
@@coreymagin But how much would it have cost to Drill at that spot 200 Feet Away??
@@coreymagin Not true - as a hydrogeologist I can tell you it works and your explanation is untrue and wrong.
@@eielson1978 he is saying you can drill anywhere basically. The depth you have to drill won't change much in a few hundred foot distance because groundwater, like normal water, tends to level out.
There's a large aquifer under the entire area. You could probably drill anywhere and, as long as you go deep enough, you'll hit water.
Not sure about the area you're referring to but in a lot of areas, especially in the hills where I live there can be great water in one spot and bone dry at twice the depth a few yards away. Know of a specific situation where they used a driller that always just went for the lowest spot on the property, in this case a substantial ravine. After about 400' they ended up with a trickle. A couple years later they decided to try again. Same driller with the same philosophy, just a 100 yards or so further up the ravine - same nearly dead result. They lived on that land for several years using holding tanks that they'd pump their trickle into until they finally got sick of that situation so they tried one more time. Different driller who strongly encouraged them to let them bring their dowser guy out and walk their entire 20 acres. He located a spot at the very highest point - a hill - on their property. They were very skeptical, but the guy felt very strongly about it. Whereas in the ravine - he got no readings. So they bit the bullet and drilled where he pin pointed on top of the hill. They hit nearly 20 gal/min at only about 200'. There definitely was not a large aquifer flowing underground all at the same level. They hit a vein thanks to their dowser. I've asked drilling crew members and they told me they've seen crazy spots where their dowser has pointed out that you'd never guess by looking at the terrain would hit, but they do.
@@admjlw Yup,
Same experience for me. My Uncle taught me how to do this plus tell how much water and how deep using wire. I had located my well and another for a co worker and hit depth and GPM on both. I did one for another friend and heard they didnt find any water. Years later I asked him about it and he said that they had in fact got water where I said. His first driller wouldn't drill where I said the water was so they got a dry hole, then he went to a different spot and got dry hole. He then hired a different driller and he made him drill where I said and Bingo! I dont believe its witch craft, just a gift from God to help mankind. Not claiming I have any special connection, Its just something thats there.
My great-grandfather used to do it for a living he says it has a lot to do with the souls that are on your shoes whether it works or not for you
When I was a kid my dad's friend, an old timer who was a plumber and well driller made a believer out of me. He did his own dowsing and swore he'd never dug an unsuccessful well. He did it with two L - shaped pieces of coat hanger...he marched around the yard and and they turned inward in certain spots. My dad tried it...nada. I tried it next and they moved in the same spots as for Mr. Burleson. Just like with this guy.
My great uncle showed me & he was really good. Every person I've shown can do it, but the severity of the pull changes with ppl.
This is the best one I've seen. The wood is best.
He was really good at holding a stick? wow. What an amazing idiot. What an amazing family of idiots.
Those crocs just about killed me..😁😁😭😭😭
My Great Grandfather was a dowser. I saw him do amazing things He was drowsing for years he could tell you how far down to drill by the pull of the branch.
No need for a branch, just look at the groundwater table map.
this is the dumbest shit ever, the groundwater level only changes by a couple centimeters over a hundred meter overland distance.
My grandpa witched for water is what we called it. He was born back in 1915. That is how they did it back then and the best way to do it today. He was very successful on many farm wells and house wells to and garden wells!!!
My grandpa did too! He was born in 1903.
that's because wherever you dig you'll definitely find it. its only a matter of time of how long and how deep it'll take before hitting it.
in our farm, we dug two wells already without the the help of any dowsers, we just dug randomly and we hit it.
Some folks are simply lucky, and some areas have water literally everywhere. But I promise you that your way won't work in lots of places.
@@alaskaeyes3571 I promise you that dowsing doesn't work any better than just guessing.
There are VERY few places in the world where there is no groundwater. If there is a groundwater table, it will be pretty even and digging 100ft left or right of a spot wont change much, because water always finds its level.
Plant Comfrey (about ten feet apart) around unwanted brambles, like blackberries and it kills them off.
Yes My dad when I was a boy had a man come out to our new site for our new home that my dad built. (Carpenter) The buy used a "Y" branch from some special kind of tree and he held it so that the two branches were touching one on each palm. He walked around the property and I watched him. That "Y" branch started to spin in a clockwise movement and he said right here it was spinning faster and faster until he stopped it. It was pulling on his hands. He tested that area twice and said at 150 ft. you will have 10 gallons of water per minute. Well turns out that man was right., and we had the best water because we were not in the city we were 10 miles out of the city limits. I was so amazed. Glad it worked out for you too. thanks for sharing this.
BEAUTIFUL dog!
Interesting. Can you tell me what is the dowsing made of
Good video. Thank you.
You are very correct it doesn’t work for everyone but it does work, I have been done it for a long time here in the USA and back home in Mexico I use the L shape rods, cheap way to find any water source
Brenda Klahn
How do you tell difference if it is just a buried water pipe, or a field line, or a septic tank or a deep underground water source?
I have used copper rods to find power and water lines. It works, I don't know how.
same; i dont believe it at all... yet couple copper rods bent; can find water, have done multiple times. I still dont believe it.
Studies on that technique showed that you can have slightly lower chances of finding water compared to someone who would pick at random
80% of all statistics are made up
I found water for a guy and the driller he hired missed on two holes cause he wouldn't drill where I said, he hired another driller and not only found the water but the depth and GPM I predicted. Certainly not scientific but in my experience Im 3 for 3, and a random driller was 0 for 2.
@@bryanturner683 by expérience or by magic tho
I've used witching sticks to locate water lines when digging holes to set new powerline poles. An old Mexican dude taught me when I was a groundhand, and it's never failed in the 7 years I've been doing it.
My grandfather found all our wells using this method. I've always wondered if I could do it as well.
What kind of wooden stick you used for dowsing
My husband has witched for allot of people & always gives his best guess at depth & gallons per minute its amazing how close his guesses are when well is drilled = it don’t work for me but I’m scared cuz i don’t want to feel a ghost thing = are daughter has never tried to witch BUT all threw school her brain just sees the math answers from first grade all the way threw to collage = she’s really bad at showing her math work & says it’s dumb cuz once you know the right answer that’s all that’s needed NOW from your video I’m wondering if this is a genetic skill cuz my husband can’t just see math answers but he’s real good at how deep & how much water before paying a drilling company 🤔
Beautiful!!!
I did it at school finding main pipes on the property. And at break time, what school bag on the ground had drinks in them. And I plotted the water main to the house after it split as a child.
No you didn't. Shut up.
It has been proven to be substantially more than 50% accurate when drilling water holes. You obviously don't come from the countryside.
The thing is drill a hole 20m further and you will find water at the same dept but the 2 sticks pointed that specific place out.
Can I find deep water over 90 feet.The shallow water is easy,but the deep one I'm not sure that the rods may help in such case.
When i was a kid (in the 80's) I used these sticks to find water and farm drainage tile. They worked 99% of the time for me. I knew where the tile was after we found it. Everytime I walked over it the rods spread apart.
Could some tell me how this gentleman made the tree Branch get to the way it was that he was using it
Let me tell you the easiest way to find water underground. Go to any base of a mountain and they'll be water. In my Village there are Borehole taps every 1KM because it's located in a topology where mountains north and south of it collectively guide water down.
My Dad was a chemical engineer. Very rational, did not believe in dowsing. But he could do it.
I can understand metal working on this,but a wood stick??? Amazing
Sua empresa é onde amigo, sou driller aqui no Brasil.
How much did the well cost if you don’t mind me asking? Also, which state are you in?
More than $20.
Is it possible that there's just a high water table in the area where these folks happen to work? Idk, I'm just spitballing. I'm still going to try and see if it works to locate the septic drain field at my new place. Worst thing that could happen is I end up using the rods to poke into the ground and find it that way. Fun experiment, either way.
Lisa Kukla no. The well is on the highest ridgeline.
How do you know the water is in streams and not a lake.
Sooooo where just casually using magic and we not gone talk about it 👁 👄 👁 love to see it love to see it
Theres a huge difference in the water table and a flowing aquafir or an undergroung flowing creek . This does work well and if you can find a spot where two of these cross each other all the better
That probability can be quite high. Geology is consistent over wide areas.
Not as much in hilly areas
I dowse for many things... water is just one! I have found keys, glasses, cords... you name it. It largely has to do with connecting with a vibration / item... picturing it... and then having the faith that you can and will find whatever it is you seek. Not everyone can do this... but I think with practice... anything is possible! Great Video ty!
How do you manage to successfully breathe when you are this dumb?
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As a kid growing up in rural Oregon in the 60s, I can remember our Nieghbors helping folks find water. It was only Grand Ma Martella, who was the expert. We had two viens of water in our valley. The one around 135 feet was okay. But the deeper one at around 175 foot depth was better. It was only 78 yr old Grand Mother Martella whom could distinguish between the two. Later her granddaughter Found She had the Gift too. The Martella family had immigrated to America from Finland. It was part of their Finish belief that certain Woman had the best abilities to water witch. Anyone know more about this ?
superstitious nonsense. Why do you need a witch if you literally know the different aquifer depths? Just drill to the required distance...
What happens when you put it over a lake?
My dad was a non believer and the willow branch almost pulled him over. Too bad your driller did not show the flow test and slotted pipe.
Very nice
Watch the heels of these folk. Ask them to work over a firm surface. One could also compare their results with values of softness/hardness with a cone penetrometer.
I've accurately discovered and determined the path of water lines underneath concrete floors. With no prior knowledge or guidance, I've marked a path and then had a plumber come in to confirm that my marks were consistent with where he had installed the line.
Are those just regular tree sticks?
sir, why do you run down to the left after the first swing of your rod and drill there ???
Because that's where he wanted to drill the well before he decided to make a shit stupid dowsing video.
Do some of you not realize that especially in hilly areas, aquifers and geology can vary vastly within small distances? Me and 2 workers tried this for the first time this morning at my shop and we all had the same result
Anyone know of a good Witcher in the Columbus Ohio area?
Back in the 1970's , with all that hippie metaphysical ESP chit, I was little kid, and I tried dousing with both a Y-stick and two L-bent coat hangers. The coat hangers really worked . The Y's were a little more "iffy"
50 years later, I do have a underground spring in my yard(I estimate about 5-10 feet underground), but I have yet to put a well(handpump) in. My land sits on top of a 130' clay hill. I will try to dowse to locate the closest spot , If I get around to it. Been meaning to for years , but I got disabled from a car crash, so I haven't been able to do things I meant to do years ago.
Hope you get to do it! Bon courage!😊
After seeing how the stick is held im not convinced. Its like when you see a pretty good magic trick but you're like "Why do his hands look so awkward?"
Isn't water like everywhere in the ground.
That first 5 mins reproduced my experience as a young boy exactly. One of the neighborhood kids had a thin forked branched and was demonstrating this in his front yard to a whole gaggle of kids. I'd say maybe half of us could do it and the other half, not. It worked for me. No idea why, but I recall the strangest sensation as the stick began to point down. It felt like it was being pulled down by an attachment to some spot on the ground, as though a string was tied to the tip of the twig and was being pulled down to a spot on the ground. Then, as you'd back up a step slowly, the force pulling the tip of the twig downward would relent, and it would elevate again. Forward, pull down, backward up. I could stand in position and rock forward and backward and watch the tip of the branch pull down and come up, pull down and come up. That is how precise and sensitive this was for me as a 10 year old. There was a very definite, palpable force pulling on the forked branch (very thin). NO WAY was I subconsciously moving the branch. The force was not weak! It was substantial. I think using the two metal rods may be much easier to introduce artifact by accidentally subconsciously moving your wrist ever so slightly, since those types of rods seem much more sensitive to wrist position and movement, but a full-sized cut wooden forked twig is far more resistant to movement by tiny inadvertent movements of the wrist. I would postulate that metal rods sitting inside very slippery sleeves would be the easiest to accidentally move.
dowsing is a scam.
@@michaelcohen9363 Might be for sure. I wonder if anyone has ever done a really good, well-controlled experiment to see if water is found more frequently than by simple chance? Some people say the rod or the branch moves for them and other people say it doesn’t do a thing in their hands. Two science degrees later and I haven’t the foggiest idea how a wooden twig produced a force against my hand but it did. Whether it was moving over something deposited in the ground or water, or some kind of other field, is a whole different question but I have no idea on that either because we were kids and dig anything. Just walked around the yard amazed that the stick was curling down on its own sometimes. But no doubt there have been people who used it to scam others.
@@centerice It's psychosomatic. There is no force produced, or otherwise it would be incredibly simple to measure.
@@centerice I have no idea why it works other than we do have metals in our body and there is a thing such as grounding when we walk barefoot on the ground so I could see there being some magnetics working there. But anyways my friend during a major drought here in South Carolina had their well dry up everyone's well was drying up this was probably about 14 years ago maybe. Anyway they had some Amish people come out that do the water dosing. They walked all over the yard I believe they were using a metal rods and they found a spot right next to the well almost that had dried up and said this is the main area of water. You're well just needed to be moved over a little bit from where it was placed. They dug that well that day hit water and it's never dried up in these 14 years whereas the other one has remained dry. It's no wonder that things work for some people and not others we are different chemical compositions a little more of this a little more of that for each person. That's why some things are toxic to some people and not to others
I use L-rods I made from spring steel. No copper handles. I’ve not only found water for wells but found lost septic systems. I set 3-5 flags in a row, not just one. That way I find running water. I personally believe it is electromagnetic fields where water passes through the earth through the channels of water.
I don't doubt they work, I've seen it used finding water lines. However here in my area, pretty much anywhere you drill you will hit water, but an old timer used to use this, he always found water in the shade in summer, and in the sun in winter. As I said I believe it works for some, and is needed in some areas
There are no water lines. Water collects in aquifers, not lines.
no one has magic water detecting powers using magic wands.
@@MagnificentXXBastard I think he means he believes they find water pipes. Either way, it seems like bull to me.
@@markp8295 obviously its bullshit lol but i think he means water lines, not pipes. an old superstition that groundwater exists in subterranean streams or lines.
@@MagnificentXXBastard I've never heard about that theory before.
They must not have played with sand at the beach growing up.
They call it a water table. If you are paying the guy just ask him if he could do it blind folded. Should have no problem getting a hit on the same location twice.
Ahahahaha right. This day and age, this much internet access, and we have a comment section like this.....
Google limestone karst.
Waw great.
Well, I guess it was a bit of silly fun but you proved nothing due to the experiment design. Specifically you haven't shown that it wasn't just luck and more importantly (and likely) Drilling anywhere along that downward slop would have gotten water in spite of what the dowsing predicted.
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.
Amazing, I also had my doubts...
if you know where an underground pipe is you could try doing it yourself i remember distinctly my grand father doing showing me how to do it when he was trying to find an underground sprinkler line
You HAD doubts? So you're saying you believe in magic bullshit where before you did not? That makes me sad.
Hi and congratulations on your new well. I know it will sound weird but is it something to do with your blood group? I've watched a video about dowsing with fork stick and was saying that the technique only works with people who have 0 Rh blood group. I found it stupid and decided to proof he is wrong. However, it didn't work with Me or my dad. We have drilled two wells but no success and getting ready for the 3rd one.
So you weren't the people with 0 Rh blood group?
No we aren't and still don't think it's something to do with the blood group though.
Lmfao hire a real expert not these quacks.
@@gahbah274 some real experts with diploma are actually worse than a man in the street LOL. I find it really funny when people constantly say "Pay the experts". they only believe what they want to believe ,and that is why they are always ripped off. Why dont you try this for yourself and test it?. Do the things by yourself and think for yourself, there are so many untalented people with so called "REAL EXPERT" name on it.
Any experts could charge you a lot of money to find the water and if they don't find it, you might as well as just say that it was technical problem or bad luck LOL.
@@gahbah274 I see them using L-rods around here to find water lines. A city water employee friend of mine is always using them. They have high tech tools but he says the L-rods work just as good.
Thank you, God bless you, I always wanted to know about water finding and your video was very informative
Easiest way to prove it is to have him wander a limited area and see if the sticks do the same thing at the same place when he has a blindfold. This video, from a viewer perspective leaves way too many variables that we are supposed to take on faith.
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There's water everywhere it's just a matter of how deep you gotta go. I would just pick the lowest elevation on my lot and drill there.
In terrain like that there’s gonna be water underground everywhere. Try doing it in the desert where there isn’t water all over the place.
In Nevada a downer found an underground river. There is a video on it.
You would need to drill holes nearby to show that there is no water everywhere
I totally agree with you, indeed it does work with some people not with others, it doesn't work with me either but I had an old uncle who can point exactly at the point he can tell how deep you need to drill and can tell if the water is sweet or salt, I witnessed him doing this tens of times and he was all the time right.
I have no explanation but as you know science does explain very few things on earth, many many things we still witness and we don't know the "how or why".
Well said. I love science. I love mystery. Both can be true.
I have a questions... can your wife wear an electric watch or does the watch battery die quickly. I can do it and can't wear electric watches! I wonder if other "witches" are the same....
Long ago comment, my father could dowse and was one of those people whose body just screwed electric watches repeatedly until he gave up on them
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My grandfatter was a good dowser ! He couldn't wear a watch either!
Been here, done this. It works!
No it doesn't. You're just a gullible fool.
Great video! I heard Monroe county- are yall in GA? Looking to put another well on our property, would love a referral to the gentleman you worked with. God bless!
In NC I've seen ppl use L-rods to find water lines numerous times. City workers as well, they do it on a daily basis. I can't believe this is a questionable thing when folks use it on the job, yes, it works.
Static electricity very simple science project done in junior high school
True Dowsing follows the rules of metaphysics, physics & quantum physics combined in Synergy/coupled. The biggest difficulty for Dowsers is POLARITY. I was fortunate enough to be a Metallurgist and understand the nuclear spin and polarity of the elements. For example Silver is South polarity whereas Gold is North polarity and all of the 80 plus elements have a magnetic polarity and send out a vibration/signal even without stimulation. What often happens is that a gold treasure signal gets warped and travels away from the actual target and fooling the dowser. So you have a gold target and gold is North polarity and nearby is a large deposit of clay (which is usually South polarity) and opposites attract, so the clay pulls the gold signal into itself even hundreds of feet away at times. On the other hand Silver is South polarity and so is clay (usually) and Same/Polarity repels each other, so the clay pushes the silver signal off of the actual target anywhere from 20 feet to hundreds of feet, again fooling the dowser.
Water at 50 degrees F is South polarity and the water/fluid in your body at a much higher temperature is North polarity and voluminous. So then when dowsing for water works really good because their is a natural attraction there. Cordially, Robert
Thats a very interesting and insightful explanation that actually makes a lot of sense to me......Ive been dowsing and drilling for over 35 years...see my "water bore drilling tutorial" on my channel......I can dowse water in my sleep but gold lol thats why I'm still drilling after 35 years
@@waterboredrillerswaterbore505 My Uncle Wayne was a water-well-driller and always dowsed his water.
The richest family around here(oil company) drilled all his by witching. Seen him do it with pliers back in the 90s before he died
Water is priceless! Way to go, great video sir, thank you.
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I worked in the scientific world all my working life as a scientist in Silicon Valley. I'm now retired, on 5 acres where we built a house. I became curious about dowsing, discarding all the weird stuff about magic crystals and zeroed in on copper dowsing rods with a copper handle. So my local hardware store had 3/16" copper grounding rod and 3/8" copper tube and that's what I made my experiment with. I bent the rod so I had 6" handles and 18" horizontal bits.
Then, without any expectation of any result I walked over my land and I was astonished to find that the rods swept outwards when I walked over where I had water lines, propane lines and septic lines. I got a set of flags which irrigation guys use to set out a line of pipe from Home Depot. Then as I walked the lines I planted a flag about every 10'. They were more or less in a straight line following the underground pipe.
I experimented with and without gloves, I got no result with gloves and did get a result without gloves on the same place.
I also placed a very strong magnet on the ground where I had got a deflection and it had no effect on the rods. I used one of those magnets on a rod that people use to pick up nails and similar large metal bits.
I conclude that this phenomena is not electromagnetic nor is it due to the earths natural magnetic fields.
I found that it does not need water in the pipe.
I also concluded that the phenomena is from the human body, the rods are simply indicators.
How and why does it work? I'm working on it...!!!
Hi Doc, I was a a drain cleaner for 20 years then plumber. I liked cleaning drains. Professionally when you have the proper tools its really not bad. I've cleaned over 40,000. Had a farmer call me out to the boonies one day. He met me at the edge of what looked like Lake Erie,
I was located in central Ohio. He told me, looking out over this never ending body of water, that a group of trees every bit a mile out had 6 feet of water under them. Then we drove down the road about a half mile and pulled into a farm house driveway. He had a track hoe and a hole 15 to 20 feet deep. He said, "if you run your cable about 50 feet up that pipe you should hit something and get that water moving."
Well I'm thinking I can run a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet up the 6 inch field tile but it was 3 thousand feet to the water.
Okay, lets give it a try. I set up some 2" pvc pipes to run the cable thru and started up the tile. 50 feet I hit a spot and before long water started flowing. "Damn," a few more minutes and the stoppage was cleaned up. (Probably roots)
The guy was so happy as he slapped me on the back and said the water should be gone by next week.
I thought maybe 6 months but kept my opinion to myself.
Anyway, he had said he and his Dad put the drain in 35 years ago so he knew where it the tile was.
Well I wondered for years how he knew where the stoppage was and only dug one hole in a mile long drain 50 feet below the clog.
He witched it. My old boss, I remembered, showed me years earlier using welding sticks with the flux knocked off how to locate
pipes that DO NOT have fluid in them. The bigger the pipe the deeper it works.
Freaking amazing.
I told another story of mine at apple drains video. Look down about 25 comments to read it if you don't have anything better to do. Yea, right. th-cam.com/video/q3bR3UU6UGA/w-d-xo.html Good luck........I think it is just some help from upstairs.
It works from witch craft bout 1500 to 2000 years ago you can watch sam and colby if u want if u dont like scary stuff dont watch them or u could watch TFIL
Glad to see I'm not the only one. You can walk over ground where the rods don't move and then trow pvc pipe down on top of same ground and walk back over and they will move. Also I've found if you hold hands close together they push apart from each other and if you hold your hands shoulder width apart they pull to center.
You’re an embarrassment to the scientific community.
@@Moz29 that's uncalled for wtf?
Midevilone, you did a really amazing job.., I hope the youth will learned something and followed the steps 🚶♂️in their hands.
Dowsing works because where ever you poke a hole in the ground you will find water.
Works for me, not my brother. It still blows my mind. I have no idea why it works. The stick comes to life. You can't stop it from moving once it animates.
Dowsing is so common in countryside in Afghanistan and it works
I have found 3 streams.
This is incredible. Can anybody explain how this is possible?
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It'S not, it's pure nonsense.
Short answer is, in most areas you will just find water when you dig enough and doing it 100ft left or right of a spot doesn't change the groundwater table more than a few inches.
@@MagnificentXXBastard if you watched the video i linked, then you would see your point is easily dismissed
@@notafortnitegamer I don't see any video linked, probably got marked as spam.
What i said is 100% correct. You can look up groundwater table depths for areas online. This depth doesn't change much over short distances...
@@MagnificentXXBastard so the object he is holding is moving on his own?