dowsing

Hi there guy's and gal's i have dowsing for twenty year's now i do it for fun locating lost items' and finding old bottle's in the ground from the 1860 through 1900. I have to dig them out and can ask the rod's for unbroken bottle's i just dig them only. I was taught by my uncle to locate water...

I've been looking at the British Pathe archive online, and if anyone is still labouring under the misapprehension that irrationality is anything new in the modern era, take a look at these; Dowsing for a missing child - including the horrific claim by one dowser that he'd found the ashes of...

Whilst perusing the current edition of the [British] National Trust magazine, I found a credulous article about dowsing, containing lines like "dowsing, it seems, has many practical, if seldom publicly credited, uses." and "the National Trust ... has, unofficially, been putting it to use for...

Ok I am not getting answers in the MDC + my new thread was merged with the old thread that was moderated. It is taking to long to actually talk in there and there are no new responses to my queries. So I’ll put it in here since they think it is a phenomenon. In My opinion I believe it’s not, I...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUQ4j5Vq03s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edebunkingskeptics%2Ecom%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic%2Ephp%3Ff%3D7%26t%3D175%26st%3D0%26sk%3Dt%26sd%3Da&feature=player_embedded Was brought up in a thread on Scepcop. Michael Cook map dowser. Seems a long time ago but wondered if there...

I have heard that Connie Sonne is now accusing Banachek of cheating while handling the cards at the MDC. Is this true? I cannot find a link to her actual interview saying this. Thanks

A note to all who are attending TAM 7 - you will want to be around on Sunday 12 July 2009 at 1pm for the Live Challenge Test of Connie Sonne. Assuming Ms. Sonne appears (and we have no reason to believe she won't) it's going to be a heck of a test with a huge audience and all kinds of...

Found a thread on the Mythbusters forums talking about the H3Tec Treasure detector. Apaprently, it can detect atoms from up to 2 miles away through "Nano-Ionic Resonance" Enter in what you're looking for, and it will key in on those atoms. Looking about the archives, I can't find mention of...

This would have been a great humourous story if it weren't for the last couple of paragraphs. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24961392-13762,00.html This is a respected news site. Why do they have to include that kind of rubbish? It reminds me of a very interesting show I watched on...

Woo, I think this is the first applicant The Challenge has had from Denmark! This seems like a pretty standard claim for a dowser, so I'm pretty sure all the bases regarding protecting the pieces of cardboard from manipulation. And yes, Connie Sonne does have writings in news papers about her...

Connie Sonne has applied for the Challenge with the claim that she is able to dowse for certain numbers when they are written on one side of a piece of cardboard and the other side is blank, and the cardboard is shuffled and placed on a table numbers-down. Ms. Sonne has had interviews regarding...

Just came across this reference to the subject of the OP; http://www.sciencemusings.com/blog/2004/07/dowsing-part-1.html The article in question is the BBC popular science mag (rag?) Focus. Has anyone read it? It seems to involve Vincent Reddish, an astronomer also taken (taken in?) by...

Some of you will remember the challenge Randi sent out to Cumberland Industries regarding the ADE 651 a couple of weeks or so back. Of course, as Randi predicted (is the man psychic or what?) they are refusing to take the test due to it being "rigged so they will fail"!!! Since then we have...

Save your pennies, boys and girls; the next must-have item for any ghostbuster worth his salt: The Ovilus I. Better yet, plonk down your hard-earned cash for The Puck, and A bargain at twice the price.

Is the expense from the red boxes? If so, could a wharehouse with empty shipping containers be used instead?

Natal'ya Vorotnikova has applied for the Challenge with all required documents and the claim that she will be able to identify a box containing a male who speaks Russian in a warehouse type setting. According to Ms. Vorotnikova's Challenge claim, she will be able to identify a box (I am...

On Sunday, August 31st at 5:30pm at Dragon*Con, Mr. Randi, Mr. Wagg, and myself will be giving a talk about the Million Dollar Challenge. As part of this talk, we will also be holding an impromptu dowsing Challenge in which we will ask for volunteers from the audience to participate. We are...

I work as a call center operator for my states' "one-call" service. That is, when homeowners or contractors wish to excavate for a construction project, they are required to call us to arrange to have their buried utility lines marked before they start working. In the two years I've worked for...

Mr. Price originally contacted the JREF some time ago regarding his ability to dowse circular paths that he (or others) had recently walked on. Mr. Price's application had been held at the JREF as incomplete and illegible. He has since sent the full application. Since his original application...

I am willing to bet that this chap has never actually tried this. If he had I suspect he would be a shoo in for a Darwin award. The fact that he suggests that others might like to try it is particularly scary.

So I'm watching Holmes on Homes episode 66, 'For Anne', original air date 02-09-06 (Season 5), and they've got some guy from a place called SANITECH who finds buried pipes by DOWSING. Mike Holmes is normally a pretty hard-headed guy. I'm surprised that he could buy into the myth of dowsing...

I found this site while looking on youtube for Randi videos. http://www.learndowsing.com/videos.cfm Here is an example HYwn0c-euYE Wow, slick eh? Methinks they should try for the $1,000,000

I have a quartz crystal that is hooked up to a 6" chain. It looks similar to this picture. Dowsing is supposed to be a way for people to identify the flow and status of a persons chakra's. These chakras are supposed to be energy centers, along the middle of your body. I had read this in a...

Talk about spending other people's money on scam services. Check out the following: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-gravemystery_24met.ART.State.Edition1.421fee6.html In a nutshell, a stretch of property turns out to have once been part of the graveyard...

"Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind" by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD. From the inside flap: "In 1991, when her daughter's rare , handcarved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer's familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down...

In the MDC thread, edge stated that he had contacted the IIG about their paranormal challenge. I called the guy who heads the group today and he confirmed that edge had contacted him. Since from this point on, this has nothing to do with the Randi challenge so I thought I'd start a new thread so...

James Dawson has applied for the Challenge with the claim that he can tell, with certain information, whether a person is alive or dead and what position they were in when they died. If Mr. Dawson is presented with photographs, full names, and birth dates of any individual (though he has...

Mike is no stranger to the JREF. A year ago, he was tested for the Challenge and failed, but now he's back again to give it another shot! Guska claims to be able to tell whether a cannister contains gold, silver, or nothing through dowsing. His protocol, however, has changed since the last time...

Hello all, The "Observatoire Zététique", a non-profit organization made up of french skeptics, just released the english version of their new publication about dowsing. It took nearly 6 months, from initial contact to final protocol, for this experiment to reach fruition. This randomized...

A few minutes ago, I watched a "consultant" from a construction company locating test holes outside my building, the College of Engineering here at Wayne State University. He was using a dowsing rod, i.e., a piece of car aerial bent 90 degrees and swivelling in a metal handle. He worked...