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The South West Monsoon Structural Anchor.

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It'll go on raining like this on and off for the next four weeks.

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The South West Monsoon Structural Anchor.

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It'll go on raining like this on and off for the next four weeks.

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Although that can cause chaos here, at least we're never short of water.

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But other places are desperately dry, and some people claim to solve that problem with a strange power.

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Can people really find water with a divine rod?

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This British colonel is convinced that dowsing works,

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with just a forked twig he found water for a town of 10,000 people.

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This American man is a very good man.

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This American prospector dowses for oil.

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This hat works right here.

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And I can show you the proof.

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It's good oil.

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His oil wells have brought him millions of dollars.

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What secret lies in the diviner's hands?

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Mistress from the files of Arthur C. Clarke,

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scientist, writer and visionary,

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the scientist who invented the communication satellite, the writer of 2010,

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and now in retreat in Sri Lanka, the visionary who ponders the riddles of this and other worlds.

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This is one part of Sri Lanka that the monsoon rains often miss,

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and that's the dry zone here in the southeast.

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So this is a sort of place where you'll meet water diviners or dowsers

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who claim to find underground water.

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And this is the place where you'll find water diviners or dowsers

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who claim to find underground water.

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This is a place where you'll meet water diviners or dowsers

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who claim to find underground water with nothing more than a bent twig.

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Around the world, some dowsers claim not only to find water,

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but also precious metals and even oil.

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Maiden McDowell is a professional oil dowser.

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In his Cadillac, he cruises the countryside of Illinois,

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prospecting from the driving seat.

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When the rod twitches, wife Marge has to steer.

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I have my wife most of the time to hold a wheel while I'm driving

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and give me a little scare once in a while.

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Just don't go too fast now.

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That's the way we do it.

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Yeah, it's working real good here.

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Clayton claims dowsing rods should work for anyone.

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Most people they'll work for.

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I got them from, said if they didn't work for you, you were dead.

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It still won't work for me.

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It certainly seems to work for Clayton.

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He claims 90% of the wells he dows is yield oil,

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far above the success rate of his more conventional rivals.

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The fields of Edwards County, Illinois are alive with his pumpjacks

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and oil companies clamor to hire him.

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I doused all these wells over here for maybe the oil company

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and staked their locations for them.

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One of Clayton's most spectacular finds was in the grounds of Edwards County High School.

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It's been running short of cash, Principal Bob Wallace.

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Money is very short this year.

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Programs have been cut.

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A lot of our equipment has been used for more years than it actually should.

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We used to depreciate our books in five years,

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and now then we're going on more like a seven or eight year program.

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Clayton offered to help out.

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He doused the school grounds and he soon struck Paydirt, right next to the playing fields.

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They decided we had oil and he drilled this well and we got one.

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The school well is producing 110 barrels a day,

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and the school will get one-eighth of the revenue.

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We imagine about three or four hundred dollars a day,

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and so you multiply that by 365, that's going to be a good piece of change.

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We love it.

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Dowsing is known locally as witching.

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Headmasters are usually skeptical of such things.

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As an academic, I feel it hard to believe that oil can be found by witching and all that.

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But it's been very successful, and with the money we're getting,

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it's going to make a hell of a difference in our school.

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Clayton's latest well is being brought in.

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The drilling mud has been cleared with acid,

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and the first oil is coming to the surface.

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Clayton sinks more than 30 holes a year, all discovered by dowsing.

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Almost all produce top quality oil.

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Clayton's success has amazed conventional geologists like Paul Mullinachs.

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The results speak for themselves.

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He has a better success ratio than almost anyone that I know of in this area.

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About 75% of all the wells he's drilled have been commercial producers.

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Clayton's dowsing rod, which she calls his bug,

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has brought him a stud full of fine trotting horses, a profitable sideline.

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I really make my money out of oil.

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And the reason I do is because I use this bug all the time to find the oil.

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In West Germany, the British Army of the Rhine has also benefited from a dowser's skills.

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It's commanded from JHQ Rindalen, a town of 10,000 people near Munchen Gladbach.

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Construction of the base began in 1952, in charge was Colonel Harry Gratton of the Royal Engineers.

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Colonel Gratton is now retired, but whenever he returns to the base he built,

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his first visit is to the scene of a personal triumph, the Army Water Works.

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Thank you.

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Hello, hello, hello, nice to meet you.

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Welcome in Rhindalen.

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Today the works provide all the headquarters needs,

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but water was a problem when Harry Gratton was planning the base.

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To supply Rhindalen's schools, offices, living quarters and barracks,

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he needed at least 700,000 gallons a day.

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Local German Water Works offered a supply,

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but Gratton knew that the water was not enough to supply the base.

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and it wasn't the water which we cared for, either for drinking or shaving,

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or boilerhouses or pipes or anything.

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So the Colonel cut a divining rod.

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He already knew there was one small well of good water on the headquarters site.

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Something's dragging it down.

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But could he really do that?

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He could do it.

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He could do it.

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But he knew there was one small well of good water on the headquarters site.

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Something's dragging it down.

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But could he really find enough for an army?

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Naturally I'd consulted with a German geologist,

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the land here, and what they thought about the prospect of water,

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and they were reasonably impressed by the first findings

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that we made on the headquarters site itself,

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but rather gloomy prognostication was that this was quite a small

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and insignificant find,

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and that the line of the Schwarm Stream, which is this,

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would be the western end of the water table.

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However, I wasn't satisfied, so I came out here

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and doused it through these woods,

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and I went across the field still finding water until it suddenly stopped.

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By now, Colonel Gratton was in the shadow of the German waterworks at Valteneer,

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so close that his dreams of an independent supply seemed impossible.

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But he still hoped there was a division between the two fields of water.

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To his gratification, he found there was.

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He pinpointed it by dousing from the German side.

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There's a strong indication here which is from the field of water

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which supplies the Valteneer waterworks.

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For a long time I couldn't find the division,

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so I went on like this,

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and as you see now it's still going down on the...

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This is the Valteneer side, and...

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Yeah, it's not going down.

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Slack, quite slack.

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For a few paces here, there's absolutely no pull on the rod.

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It's quite slack.

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There's nothing here.

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And then if I go on, there it is.

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Very strong pull.

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Now that's the beginning of the water bearing area which I had discovered.

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They did miss our patch.

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That's the extraordinary thing.

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They missed it by so little.

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As you see, their waterworks are right on the very edge of our area.

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Thirty years on, the vast Rheindalen Bay still relies on the secure and independent supply found by Harry Grappin.

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The savings on German water rates run into millions of pounds.

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There's enough for 10,000 people with plenty to spare.

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For Colonel Grappin, dousing has a simple explanation.

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It's called water divining, and there is in it an element of the divine.

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If you'd like to think of it like that, you are asking to find something,

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and some power gives you the power to find it.

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And that's how I prefer to believe it.

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There are more things in heaven and earth ratio than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

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Wait a minute, don't run, please. Come back. You know where we're going?

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Danville, Vermont.

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In this small American town, everyone learns the mysteries of divining from an early age.

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In the place that calls itself the dousing capital of the world, it's on the school curriculum.

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Everybody sit down.

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Okay, now, all you're doing with dousing rods is tuning in like a radio,

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and you're making yourself into a radio. It's very, very simple.

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When you are dousing, you're trying to tune your antenna to something that you don't know the answer to.

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Patrick is very good at finding water.

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Good. Very good.

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Danville's annual dousing convention brings people thousands of miles to brush up techniques

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and to check out the latest equipment.

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With this instrument, we can measure someone's aura.

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By coming in on a victim, where the aura comes out, it bends out.

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She's putting out about eight inches of energy from her head at a time.

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The douses believe the village green is riddled with underground streams waiting to be detected.

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Oops. Now, we're over one right here. Now, let's restrain them out again.

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All right. You're over another one. Actually, those are beginning to work by.

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Thank you.

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Whether they use pendulums or rods, convention delegates believe they can find almost anything.

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I was laying flooring boards in the attic of our house.

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I had driven probably a couple of thousand nails, put much flooring down,

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and suddenly the phone lines were not working,

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and we guessed that we had driven a nail through the phone.

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But I started to check out each nail using a voltmeter,

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and I found that there were an awful lot of nails there,

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so I went and got the dousing rods instead,

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and I narrowed it down to an area probably three foot square.

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So without telling my wife, I asked her to do it,

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and she confirmed that it was in the same three foot area,

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but she used a pendulum to go over all the nails in there,

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and she picked the nail, and we circled it with a pencil.

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I went and got the voltmeter, and touching the nail and ground,

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we had 60 volts on there.

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We pulled the nail and the phone system went back to normal.

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In the general store, shopping is made simple.

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You hold it, I'll do it.

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That looks good.

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OK.

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And the vets, of course, diagnosis by dosing.

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A lot of arthritis and of course, the C.

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We've got a spot right back here.

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I start to get a bounce in the rod.

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Still, it's not strong enough to be concerned about.

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The methods and the instruments may vary,

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but dousing is an ancient art.

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In the 16th century, German Wunschelrutengangers,

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wishing rod walkers, hunted for underground minerals.

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Abbe Lombeer found water for the Cannes Country Club in the 1930s.

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In Oklahoma City, where oil flows from a well underneath the capital building itself,

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they still remember the name of wild-catter Ace Kutowski.

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In 1943, using a pendulum,

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Ace found Oklahoma's largest oil field at West Edmund.

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In Europe, Dr. Peter Treadwell helped find sites for Hoffman-La Roche pharmaceutical factories,

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like this one at Cicelm, Switzerland.

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Retired engineer Dennis Briggs doused church ruins at Ponteeland, Northumberland,

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for archaeologists, and pinpointed Saxon remains.

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At Camp Pendleton, California, US Marines were given dousing detail during the Vietnam War.

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Their instructors claimed the rods would lead them to hidden Viet Cong guerrillas.

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Douses are so confident of their powers that they seldom bother to ask the fundamental question.

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Are they just lucky, or is there a scientific explanation?

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My friend the magician, James Randy, tried to find the answer.

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In 1980, he went to Australia to challenge the diviners of the Outback.

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$50,000 were on offer to anyone who could unfailingly find water in the water.

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The Dazas were certain they'd scoop the prize.

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It would be the easiest days divining I've ever had if the money comes forward.

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First they looked for metal.

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Lumps of gold and brass were hidden in one of ten boxes.

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The Dazas' task was to say which box contained the metal,

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but in 61 tries, they found it only four times.

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The Dazas' task was to say which box contained the metal,

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but they found it only four times.

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When the metal tests were over, the water was turned on.

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11 Dazas paced the field.

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Hidden in the ground below were ten pipes.

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The Dazas had to detect which one the water was flowing through.

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By chance alone, they had to be right ten percent of the time,

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and by chance, the Dazas boasted they'd score at least 80% success.

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At the end of the day, the diviners gathered to hear the water results

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from scrutiny at the Reverend Ted Knoffs.

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In the total of 50 tries, there were only 11 successful attempts,

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which was 22%.

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The total of everything, that is to say the brass, the gold,

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and the water, meant 111 tries were undertaken.

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There were a total of 15 successful,

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and that makes approximately a percentage of 12%.

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So the result was just a little over the 10%.

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It would seem to indicate that dousing as a force simply does not exist,

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except in the imagination and in wishful thinking of the people who tried.

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What do we to make of Randy's test for dousing?

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The experiment was well designed, but I don't quite agree with his conclusions.

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The test for water and the test for metal were entirely separate experiments.

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He shouldn't have combined the results.

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The Dazas were hopeless at finding metals.

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They'd have done much better if they'd merely guessed.

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But the results for water are rather impressive.

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By chance alone, the Dazas should have been right 10% of the time.

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Their actual score was 22%.

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The odds are 100 to 1 against that happening by chance.

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So the Dazas were quite good at locating water.

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They weren't as infallible as they claimed to be,

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but they were distinctly better than Randy admits.

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I'd be able to find only one experiment that suggests how dousing may actually work.

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On the campus of Utah State University at Logan,

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Professor Dwayne Chadwick is preparing the ground for the latest in a series of dousing tests.

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He hopes to establish a connection between dousing reactions in the Earth's magnetic field,

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using student volunteers hijacked on their way to classes.

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Before the test begins, Chadwick measures the magnetic field every foot along the path.

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Then he buries a piece of wire coat hanger in the snow,

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which will cause a distinct change,

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a distortion in the Earth's magnetic field.

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Really hard.

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The tests are designed to discover whether Dazas can detect changes in the Earth's magnetic field,

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like the one caused by the coat hanger.

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Any movement of the rods, a dousing reaction,

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is carefully recorded.

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Chadwick got the idea from a local newspaper story.

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I saw something that made me really wonder.

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Two boys fell through the ice on the Snake River and were drowned.

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The search party couldn't find them,

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and a douser came along and located them after the search party had given up.

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That got me thinking, there must be some scientific basis on which that might work,

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because here's a whole river of water, obviously it wasn't the water.

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And I postulated that the skates would distort the Earth's magnetic field.

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Underground water also causes such distortions.

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Perhaps dousers can tune into them.

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This might explain the basis of dousing, but why should the rods twitch?

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I postulated again that here we have the human body,

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which is really a conductor of electricity.

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And as you cut the magnetic field, this causes micro-voltages to be induced into the tissues, the muscles.

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That shortens the muscle, it causes a slight misalignment of the hands,

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subconsciously, not consciously, then causes a dousing response.

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In a previous test, students doused a 60-foot-long path.

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Unknown to them, Chadwick had buried a piece of wire coat hanger to spot 26 feet along it.

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The dousing reactions were grouped in bunches, especially over the wire.

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23 out of 25 people got a reaction within three feet of that spot.

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And statistically, of course, you could break the bank at Monte Carlo with those kind of odds.

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And we did show that they tended to get reactions where the magnetic field is changing.

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The magnetic field is changing most where the graph is steepest,

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and that's where the dousing reactions are bunched.

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Based on our statistical evidence, I think there is a possibility that this is the mechanism by which the dousing reaction occurs.

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In Carmel Valley, California, the telephone company has a douser on call.

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Just turned off Highway 1, I'm eastbound on Carmel Valley Road.

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WIC show up the other side of the road.

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Highway 1, I'm eastbound on Carmel Valley Road.

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We got control of the old Dunnaway Ranch, a buried service wire and an interground wire, seems to go bad.

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Is that that one right by mid-valley?

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That's the one. Can you go out there and locate the interground facilities?

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Engineer Tom Harmon had trouble convincing his boss.

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When I first heard that Tom could find lines using copper rods, I just sort of laughed and chuckled him and said,

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I'm not sure until he had me do it and taught me how to do it, and then you just have to believe it.

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We encourage all of our employees to either learn it and not laugh about it, but try to use it.

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Tom's job is to find and fix faulty telephone lines.

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He's sure that this one will present no problems.

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Right here. I think we'll take right here. Looks like it.

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Don't refuse to choose yourself.

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But several hours later, there's no sign of the cable despite energetic excavations and the insistent swing of the dowsing rods.

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That shows right where it should be.

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He tries another spot, but they're still in a real hole.

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Kind of embarrassing, you know, to not find it.

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As the shadows lengthen over Carmel Valley, he still can't find the wire.

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Next morning, Pacific Bell sent in high technology help.

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It does the job in minutes.

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Well, I found what I was digging for.

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Yeah.

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Is it out there?

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It's out here, Tommy.

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Well, I must have picked up this water line and this sewer line.

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What do you think, Mike?

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Yeah, it's right there.

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Well, let's dig it up there.

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I found it.

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There it is.

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Boy, that sure was deep.

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He was been wrong before and it won't be this last time probably, but most of the time we'll find the wire with the dowsing.

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I still believe that dowsing works and I've been doing it a lot of years and I'm going to keep it up.

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I believe that dowsers, like racing tipsters, remember their successes and conveniently forget their failures.

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All the same, I think that there may be something to dowsing.

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Biologists know that some animals can detect water even when there's no visible trace of it.

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Perhaps a few people share this ability as a primitive survival from a time when it could have been a matter of life and death.

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So I'd like to see Randy's experiment repeated on a larger scale.

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It could be important to learn whether dowsing is superstition or genuine science.

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H modulus

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skateboard

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Next week,

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Walking on fire.