KERRY KENNEDY, Drill-Thrill Speculator

[KRAMER]

I am willing to accept your challenge, not only because it is exciting but it's what I do every day. I would like to set out parameters that can be well accepted by both parties. I will have investors purchase a piece of property or properties with which they are willing to put up their money not opnly to buy, but to improve (water wells, pumping systems, and tanks) for sale either as a developable piece of property due to availability of water, or a water property solely for the sale of water. In doing so I will have no money invested but will require a precentage of either royalties on water sales, or a percentage of the real estate sale. I have been involved in this type of circumstance all my life and have no fear of embarrassment due to inability to perform.

I would like your people to be with me while I set the initial location for the well. I would enjoy their involvement in the move-in of the equipment with which to drill the well. Bear in mind, my investors will pay for all costs incurred for drilling this location, pumping this location, tanking this location. Your participation in this well will be merely from the standpoint of a voyeur. Let me assure you that there are no water wells within the location of this property, nor are there adjacent or contiguous. This is what you would call wild cat drilling.

I have set hundreds of wells. I cannot determine the flavor (as far as TDS volume or depth) butn one thing I will tell you, we will spend fifty to a hundred thousand dollars plus, to ensure that the well comes in. When we speak of a well lets start with the parameters that Riverside County California sets forth, which are if I'm not mistaken, a minimum of 3 gallons per minute per home site. Let me assure you that 3 gallons per minute is not what I would spend my time for. I would much rather see from ten to three hundred gallons per minute, but depending on the formation whether it is permeable or not, will regulate the GPM. I would think a well, that I would accept, would produce at least ten gallons per minute.

If you are willing to watch, I'm willing to produce.

Sincerely,

Kerry Kennedy

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Dear Mr. Kennedy,

Thank you for your interest in the JREF One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. We regret to inform you that drilling for water is not a paranormal phenomenon. Regretfully, this fact strongly supports our decision to reject your claim.

We appreciate your generous offer to allow us to watch you drill, but frankly, we'd rather play cards. Maybe next time.

Good luck with the drilling, and with your investments. Break a leg.

-Kramer, JREF Paranormal Claims Dept.

 

[KRAMER]

Decision Reversed - Application Accepted

I just had a wonderful telephone conversation with Mr. Kennedy, who took my "...frankly, we'd rather play cards" joke in precisely the spirit it was intended. He also agreed that his initial claim could easily have been confused with one that had nothing whatsoever to do with the paranormal.

Mr. Kennedy claims that so long as the water is moving/flowing (and NOT "standing"), he can locate it with a dowsing rod apparatus of his own design, made of organic materials (in this case; wood). Although he would prefer to demonstrate his claim as he had proposed (by successfully dowsing for water in an area where water has never been found before), he has agreed in principle to a variation of the test Randi previously conducted in Germany, wherein PVC pipes are buried and water is either moving through it, or NOT moving through it.

Based upon this preliminary agreement, I have reversed my decision and accepted Mr. Kennedy's application. He is also willing and anxious to travel to LA for testing, so I have put him in contact with Jim Underdown and our comrades at CFI-West. It is my hope that together they can agree to a protocol, and that we will soon see a proper test of dowsing for the JREF Paranormal Challenge.

The applicant claims a 100% success rate, and says that he has never once drilled and found nothing. He says that he has profited substantially from his abilities, and regularly stuns onlookers by finding water in locations where there was thought to be none.

Also notable in my conversation with Mr. Kennedy was his abject disdain for other dowsers, all of whom he considers to be either deluded or fraudulent. He claims that the only authentic dowser he has ever seen is his own father.

 

[KRAMER]

From Jim Underdown at CFI-West

Dear Kramer,

I just wanted to let everyone know that Kerry Kennedy called our office yesterday to inquire about being tested for alleged dowsing abilities.

I told him that we would need to set up a controlled demonstration where he would pre-screen an area to make sure there was no underground water, then we would plant water in certain locations unknown to him. We prefer to use hidden cups or buckets as they are inexpensive and easy to set in place.

Mr. Kennedy said he was used to dealing with larger quantities of water underground, but that he would try dowsing over some cups or buckets to see if he was able to detect the water in them.

We'll wait to hear from him after his self-test.

Best regards,

James Underdown
Executive Director
Center for Inquiry-West

 

[KRAMER]

Hello Jim,

When we last corresponded about Mr. Kennedy and his claim, you told me that he was planning to do a self-test before proceeding with the JREF Challenge? Has that occured? Have you heard back from him yet regarding his claim? Just curious.

 

[KRAMER]

Jim Underdown @CFI-West tells me that he had a brief conversation with Mr. Kennedy, and hasn't heard a peep from him since.