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Dowsing rods? Yay or Nay?

 
By Orbeater at January 27, 2006 - 1:02pm | Ghost Hunting Tips & Tricks

Just curious as to see how many of you use or have or know someone who uses dowsing rods and their accuracy? Someone told me you can make your own, coat hangers and the like, so I brought out some tools and made a pair. Also curious too know if homemade or blessed purchased rods would work better. Any opinions?

~Orby

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yea on dowsing rods

By teakeh on November 8, 2006 - 8:13pm

i was sceptical but an old gentleman from an east coast fishing town taught me how to make/use and explained how they work to me
He explained that anything left in one place long enough has it's atoms align themselves with the earths magnetic poles.
When the earth is disturbed by moving water or recent digging the N S magnetism of that material is different from the background material.
Similarly lost items would stand out against the magnetic orientation of where it was left.
His explaination was eons ago humans could sence this as a survival tool (some animals still do) but now we need the assistance of rods as antenia.
Teakeh

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History of Dowsing

By shanep on April 25, 2006 - 3:48pm

definition and history of dowsing:

dowsing Also known as “rhabdomancy,” “water-witching,” and “divining,” this notion is first described in print in the 1540 Latin folio of Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer, 1490/4?-1555) on mining, titled De re Metallica, published at Basel, Switzerland.
http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/dowsing.html

Here is a great book on it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312151195/sr=8-3/qid=1145997928/ref=sr_1_3/102-0706837-4696155?%5Fencoding=UTF8

http://www.randi.org/library/dowsing/

I hope you spend time to do a real review of double blind test regarding dowsing. In fact, there is a $1 million prize for anyone proving what they claim with dowsing. 100's from around the world have tried and all failed. Perhaps you could be the first.

Also, check out: http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/ideomotor%20effect.html

Happy HUnting.

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As with anything when

By hkolln on April 21, 2006 - 10:08pm

As with anything when investigating paranormal phenomena you should use more then 1 item. As a previous poster mentioned, dowsing rods were used to locate underwater sources. So, how are we to know that we aren't just picking up water underground? If we use another type of EMF detector along with other types of equipment then we can hopefully prove it's just not water. But for our team and for me personally, I don't rely on dowsing rods by themselves.

Helen
www.spiritinvestigations.net

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Paranormal phenomena and EMF.

By The Doctor on October 15, 2006 - 9:39pm

Has anyone tried using a frequency counter or spectrum analyser on a ghost-hunt? What about an RF scanner to look for non-random patterns in the RF spectrum?

--
The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
Antarctica Starts Here.

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Response.

By GarageSorcerer on March 1, 2006 - 3:45pm

Bless them yourself. That way it'll atleast be attuned to you if anything

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Yep yep yep

By Brenna on February 11, 2006 - 10:26am

I used some while walking through Glastonbury Abbey which apparently sits on ley lines. I was walking in a straight line like I had seen some other people doing and when they got to a certain spot the rods went crazy. So I tried it for myself and they did the same thing.
There's got to be something that makes them work.

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I have a pair

By nnyprs on February 26, 2006 - 1:00pm

I have a pair of rods that I use on occasion. I began experimenting with them after buying them, by trying to find lost objects in the house. After "tuning" with the rods I have been able to find objects such as a lost remo0te control to a lost $100 bill in my house with about an 80% accuracy rate.

For me, they point in a general direction. I can subconciously, or out loud ask yes or no questions. They are pretty amazing if you learn to use them.

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How do ya know?

By MissTeacher on February 11, 2006 - 7:39am

I had a couple of people in my hunting group that used the rods on occasion and it's discussed in a training class that IGT provides for its members. I've never used them... no particular reason why I haven't except maybe that I'm not the most graceful gal in the bunch and I would worry that the rods would be moving around crazily.

but I wonder...how do you know what you've really found if you are using the rods? I mean, M.A's family uses them to find water. How do ya know if you've spotted a great place for a well or if there is a family of ghosties standing on that spot? Is it really possible to know what you've found without others around to document, take pictures, dig, whatever???

Just some thoughts... *shrugs*

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Yay!

By MagnusApollo on February 1, 2006 - 8:57pm

I picked this little bit of skills from my father and his family. My father uses dowsing rods when looking for springs on his farm. My mother's uncle who built homes for a living would use them to find a perfect spot for wells.

Even my brother and myself use them, with relatively high levels of accuracy.

My father was walking around after he had built his house using dowsing rods and kept drifting towards one spot. He told everyone that if he could He would put a well at the corner of one of his barns. He instead put it about 5 feet over and he now has a 65 foot well that is about 10 feet from the surface with water during the rainy months or the dry season. Also, the neighbors ask him to do it for there houses. He had "witched" a well for one neighbor 5 years or so ago. told him the spot, when the well diggers got there they said it would be a bad spot. the dug 3 spots! down to about 75 feet in the ground... nothing. They called in another well company and he dug where my father had told them.... (right in the middle of the other three spots mind you) and they had flowing water year round.

I have met people that use dowsing rods to find artifacts and minerals, I have never tried this myself.

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Yay

By Ghostly Designs on February 11, 2006 - 10:02am

I've never used dowsing rods but have seen some amazing results. When my grandfather was alive he would sometimes use a water witch'n stick, as he called it, to find the best place for a well. He drilled water wells for a living so he wanted to know just the right spot for a well.

He would cut a Y shaped branch from a fruit tree and hold one branch of the fork in each hand. The grip was strange, his knuckles turned towards each other (thumbs point towards his body). As he walked around the free end of the stick would suddenly dip down and that was the best spot for a well.

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Dowsing Rods

By marc_leader on February 11, 2006 - 1:05pm

Doug, in one of my journal posts on the old site I spoke of these things and my own experience with them. The rods do tend to float freely and respond to your own movements, but the idea is to hold them as steady as possible without using force. Then the big secret in the successful use of dowsing rods is the coherence of your mental activity. You need to silence the random thoughts by focusing on a single thought or object, this being the force or item you are looking for with the rods. Next, focus on this thought and send it out from your midsection with a strong intent. Then use the rods.

Most of the time the rods will respond with what parapsychologists call idio-motor responses which are subconscious signals from the brain controlling your arm and hand muscles making them move the rods when your mind has detected the desired target. However, what you experienced is a rare and more intense action that did NOT originate from within but rather was a reaction to external forces in the lines of force of the Earth. With out going into to too much detail here, certain areas manifest subtle energy flows that are so powerful they can actually cause physical objects, like the dowsing rods, to move on their own! Interesting thing to note is that other entities, including ghosts, can manipulate this same subtle energy causing movement of not only the rods but also other physical objects.

Yes indeed is an amazing feeling when you suddenly "feel" a force like this right in your own hands! It really makes you sit up and take notice. I still use that tool and I recommend that you continue to experiment because you obviously have tapped into the source once and will do so again.

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Do they need contact?

By terrylar on February 24, 2006 - 4:24pm

So I've been wondering - do dowsing rods actually need to be in physical contact with a person to work? For instance, if a person was to devise an apparatus that always held the rods straight and level without impeding their ability to swing side-to-side, and eliminated the possibility of idiomotor movement and other subconsious influences, would the rods work the same way? Given that the rods are supposed to react to external energy forces, I'd expect that they would.

Any theories, ideas, or comments?

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Think of Dowsing Rods as Meters

By marc_leader on February 25, 2006 - 1:58am

Think of dowsing rods as an indicating meter. They do not pick up external energy, they react to ideomotor responses from the subconscious mind. It is the human subconscious that detect the external energy and send the signals to move the dowsing rods. This has been proven in the lab, however that does not mean that external energy cannot effect a rod, it has just never been documented.

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cool

By Orbeater on January 28, 2006 - 6:43pm

I remember an archive where you were telling the story of this happening. Thats pretty awesome. Maybe I should use mine more and the more we get used to eachother so to speak, the better results I might get. Thanks for the advice. : )

~Orby

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