Water Dowsing

[winjim]

How does it work then? By what mechanism?

 

[Bazzer]

No personal direct experience of dowsers but there is something in the back of my mind about James Randi being sceptical about their "powers".

 

[MossCommuter]

World's biggest cynic calling...

...I have dowsed for water (clay drain pipes in a field). It has worked for me when I have known that there is something to find but was just not quite sure of the precise location.

 

[welsh dragon]

No personal direct experience of dowsers but there is something in the back of my mind about James Randi being sceptical about their "powers".

Now there is a name from the dim and distant past.

 

[Piemaster]

It works! I've just walked around the ship I'm on and there is water everywhere!

 

[User482]

Just tried it. Led me directly to the cupboard where I keep the beer.

 

[Dave 123]

I've been using it for years, it works too.
I cannot get results from wooden sticks, but I can find water with two bent bits of wire.

 

[Threevok]

I've tried it, but it never worked for me

That's not to say it doesn't work though

I've tried being tolerant of idiots too, but it works for Jesus

 

[SteveF]

Just tried it. Led me directly to the cupboard where I keep the beer.

You need stronger beer

 

[Tin Pot]

On BBC Radio 4 , John Humphrys spoke about using Water Dowsing to locate water on his farm.


View: https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/933651369537437697?


Has anyone used Water Dowsing?

Does it find water?

I listened to that in the car.

The “senior” people in that guys team have been having him on and are laughing their socks of right now.

Used it 18yrs works 100% of the time... :

 

[glasgowcyclist]

This is no different to the fraudster who rebadged a novelty golf ball finder as a bomb detector and fooled gullible government and military officials into paying tens of millions of dollars for a plastic toy. It's horseshit.

 

[winjim]

Water's pretty incredible stuff though. If homeopathy can work then I'm prepared to believe in the efficacy of dowsing.

 

[Tim Hall]

I tried it once, looking for a buried cable rather than water and using two L shaped bits of welding rod which crossed when I walked over where the cable was. Trouble is, I'd been told where the cable was buried, so it wasn't a useful test.

I ran it as an event for my Scouts once. "How does it work?" asked one lad. "I don't know. You just have to have faith." Said lad was a vicar's son, so faith should have been an easy thing for him.

Edit: Of course it's nonsense.

 

[jefmcg]

No personal direct experience of dowsers but there is something in the back of my mind about James Randi being sceptical about their "powers".

That's whom I was thinking of with my "double blind test"

Randi offered $1 million to anyone who could prove they had paranormal ability. The way it worked it is they would come to him, and agree a test and then they'd do the test. As I recall, the dowsing test involved 3 buried pipes, with water running through one at any time. They agreed a criterium - how many attempts and how many of them had to be successful to prove dowsing. No one took the money.

It was a feature of Randi's tests that the applicants would protest the conditions were unfair after the test, even though they freely agreed to them before hand.

I notice that dowsing is more popular in countries with high rainfall, like the UK, where you are more likely to find water wherever you dig.

Anyone play with ouija boards as kids?

 

[FishFright]

I don't believe in water dowsing and consider it total woowoo , unfortunately it fails to bare this in mind and keeps working anyway.