I was doing some experiments on dowsing last year and wondered what people thought about this?.
I used two "L" shaped coat hanger wires held lightly in my hands with the long part facing forward and the wires about 12" apart. In fact the wires did cross for me whenever I passed over a know water, electrical or gas line. However we could attribute this to some kind of cognitive bias on my part having had prior knowledge of the lines location.
However that's not the strange part. On my acreage the dowsing wires clearly crossed in my back yard showing a line running South to North. I considered this an error however a month later I found an old 1" iron gas line buried in that exact location while landscaping. I also detected random points which later turned out to be places where someone buried the contents of burning barrels with old cans, nails, hinges and such.
The notion of supposedly sensing buried objects or lines with two pieces of wire sounds completely absurd however I cannot dispute my own experiments. I would expect random hits and an error rate well beyond 50% but this was not the case. In fact the error rate was very low near 10% which makes no sense.
I have little interest in all the online hearsay and was wondering if anyone had a rational explanation?.
Regards
Bondo
I used two "L" shaped coat hanger wires held lightly in my hands with the long part facing forward and the wires about 12" apart. In fact the wires did cross for me whenever I passed over a know water, electrical or gas line. However we could attribute this to some kind of cognitive bias on my part having had prior knowledge of the lines location.
However that's not the strange part. On my acreage the dowsing wires clearly crossed in my back yard showing a line running South to North. I considered this an error however a month later I found an old 1" iron gas line buried in that exact location while landscaping. I also detected random points which later turned out to be places where someone buried the contents of burning barrels with old cans, nails, hinges and such.
The notion of supposedly sensing buried objects or lines with two pieces of wire sounds completely absurd however I cannot dispute my own experiments. I would expect random hits and an error rate well beyond 50% but this was not the case. In fact the error rate was very low near 10% which makes no sense.
I have little interest in all the online hearsay and was wondering if anyone had a rational explanation?.
Regards
Bondo