What is Dowsing?

            Dowsing is a profession/hobby that people do to find water or dead bodies underground without modern technologies. What a dowser would do is take two brass rods, a stick with a fork in it, or a pendulum and walk around until one of those object indicates something underground. When dowsers use the two brass rods, that are bent at 1/3 of the rod to make a 90 degree angle, and they hold the rods one foot apart and one foot from their chest they wait for the rods to cross. This indicates water or a body, depending on how large the area they are crossing. People have been dowsing for over 8,000 years. Ray Cook is the dowser that has taught us some great information. Albert Einstein,General Patton, Leonardo da Vinci, Otto Elder von Graeve, Uri Geller, A. Frank Glahn, Thomas Charles Lethbridge, Ludwig Straniak, Emmy Kitterman, and Jacques Aymar Vernay were dowsers, as Ray has informed us.

What do Dowsers find?

        Dowsers have been know to try and find minerals under the ground such as gold. People have also been notorious to try and find oil through dowsing; however there has been no evidence of anyone ever being able to find oil through dowsing. A long time ago dowsing used to be considered witchcraft. Water dowsing is the most common form that people do, however there are other forms of dowsing such as finding dead bodies. In a 1948 study, tests were done on 58 dowsers and none were any more reliable than chance. The rod used to dowse used to be called a vining rod because people would use the rod to find veins of water for digging wells. More recently people have used the term "witching" in place of dowsing.

           If you were dowsing with a pendulum to would walk around until the pendulum begins to swing around in a circular motion. If the pendulum swings around clockwise, then there is water. With a stick, you hold the two ends of the stick that go into one and walk around until the stick bows down toward the ground.