5 SILVER DAY!!! DOWSING IS REAL?

[thewoodboys]

Hello friends! Well two days ago, my dad told me about dowsing. I had never really heard about it, just about people finding water with sticks. So I started looking into it. I seen people dowsing photos of areas, and it really intrigued me. I believed! Which I believe is very important. So today, before we went out on our M' Ding hunt at a early 1900's football field, I said, let me try this. My dad had already pulled two silver out of this field the last time we were there, and was hoping for more this time. So I went on Google earth, got a picture of the area, and printed it out. Now I don't have any fancy dowsing tools or anything like that, so i took a necklace, and put a silver ring on it. After I printed out the map, I took my crafty dowsing tool, and began. I asked it to show me where the silver was at. I moved it back and forth the picture slowly, and felt it pull at some spots, and circle others. I marked them on my pic, with X's. I didn't really know what to think, but had an open mind. If it worked, cool! If not, Oh well. Here is the map I came up with, the yellow X's are where I marked silver, and the red is where we found silver. The top right X's and the top left X, we didnt get to spend any time on. I started at the lower left. Found a 1941 silver Washington, within 10 feet of this X. Between this and the next X to the right, my dad found two silver dimes, one Merc, and one Rosie, nothing around the next X tho. So we went out on the football field, those two X's stacked on top of each other, were dead on!!! The bottom one I got my 1898 barber dime, and while i started checking the X on top of it, I told my dad to while I checked the other two X's in the top right corner. Our time ran out, but as I was walking back to my dad, he had that look! I asked him " Did you find it?" He said yep, and I could tell he was a little shocked at the accuracy, we walked out where he dug it, and we looked at the map! Wow! Dowsing works!! Oh yeah, it was another Merc. I know spending time at the few remaining X's, is probably going to bring forth another silver or two. The crazy thing was that this was my first time doing it. I will be trying to master this, and will continue believing! Happy Hunting, TheWoodBoys

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

digger-deeper, I would answer your "it works [sometimes]" objection in this way, by this example:

I know guys that are SO skilled a gold nuggets, that they can look at a given field, mountain-side, or stream-bed, and tell you where the "most-likely place" is to find the gold. And then sure enough, when they turn on their nugget hunter metal detectors to start hunting, presto: they were right. Why? Because they've been doing it for so long, and are skilled enough, that they already know the most-likely spots to find gold, in any given land terrain.

Same for metal detecting: Anyone who has been at this awhile, can go to a given field, where they perhaps were told "this used to be a picnic site in the 1800s". The skilled/experienced md'r looks at the field, and subconsciously walks out to the "most likely" areas to start hunting, right? Eg.: the prominent trees where certainly people went for shade, etc...

So your examples of times when it [sometimes] worked, I would ascribe to just the same phenomenom: subtle subconsious clues. The rod has nothing to do with it. Same for those vietnam vets who found tunnels. Same thing. Dowsing had nothing to do with it.

I mean, think of it: history is FILLED with examples of people accidentally stumbling upon buried goodies, right? You know, stories of like a gardener or const. worker digging a ditch, and finding a jar of coins or whatever. So HOW MUCH MORE-SO is a guy going to find goodies, when he specifically start out WITH THAT VERY INTENTION (whether or not he has a dowsing rod). You know, like if you hear a tip that "so & so buried his jar of gold coins in such & such a field". Well gee, wave your rod around at the very field your already-researched-tip led you to, and sure, it points to the most-likely spot you tilt the rods to. The ruins, or a cave, or .... wherever was the spot that is most likely spot for someone to have buried something, to begin with. We all do that, when we're searching for something we already had a lead to suspect something is there, to start with.

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

I think I'm going to invent a new dowsing device. It will be an alternative to pendulums and rods, for anyone who wishes to give it a try: You coat an old tennis shoe with peanut butter, sprinkle it with bird-seed, and throw it up in the air. Wherever the shoe points to, when it hits the ground, is the direction of treasure!! Walk 20 paces in that direction, and repeat the process. Each time pull out your detector to "pinpoint", and I gaurantee you: you will eventually find something metal. Heck, maybe even a good item! Why? Because the peanut butter tennis shoe worked! If you call this nonsense and rubbish, then why? Simply apply the talking-points you see here from the advocates of dowsing, and you will see that my tennis shoe idea is un-assailable. You simply have to "believe".

 

[Beans]

What works for one person may not work for the other. If it work for woodboys, great why dog them out for it. Let them pass on thier experience and enjoy the forum.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

What works for one person may not work for the other. If it work for woodboys, great why dog them out for it. Let them pass on thier experience and enjoy the forum.

Which is exactly why I will now employ my peanut-butter tennis-shoe idea, and ...... no one dare "dog me out" and call it snake oil silliness. Why? because I'm only "passing on my experience", and "works for me", and I'm "enjoying the forum".

 

[diggerdeeper]

Tom,
Your examples are apples to my oranges.
My personal experiences in locating known samples in a controlled experiment is completely different.
But I will agree the rods and pendulums aren't the "metal detectors"; they are merely a visual amplifier for the subconscious clues you speak of.
How or why these "clues" manifest themselves, I won't get into.
I don't understand it.I'm just satisfied if it gets results.

You seem like a fellow who might also denounce mediums who help solve murder cases.
I can't explain that either. But if they get results, who am I to disparage what they do.

Some folks don't believe in spirits or "ghosts" either; because they can't be explained by current wisdom.
But yet there they are, in one form or another showing up on all sorts of electronic gear.
I've never had a paranormal experience, but I don't discount the possibility that there's something to it.

Speaking of peanut butter sneakers, my old boss bragged he could find water with a pliers.
I said - show me. So he grabs a pair of pliers holding them open with both hands, walks outside and throws them in puddle of water in the driveway !! he was pretty proud of himself.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

digger-deeper, great, then you will lend full respect and credibility to my peanut-butter sneakers treasure-finder. Right?

Actually NOTHING (no matter how seemingly insane) can be challenged with healthy skepticism or cross-scrutiny. No one can label anything (no matter how crazy to the casual reader) "silly" and/or "non-sensical". Just making sure this is correct. If so, then yes, we're on the same page.

 

[wheatfinder13]

Nice silvers

 

[diggerdeeper]

Tom,
I think we need to consider "intent" here.
The starter of this thread was serious about what he perceived as an authentic experience; your sneaker invention seems a bit cynical.
But what the heck, put a pair on ebay and see who buy's 'em !
I just hope the kid that started this doesn't quit sharing his ideas and experiences.

 

[thewoodboys]

Thank you Beans, my thoughts exactly, I think this guy had bad expierience with dowsing!

 

[thewoodboys]

Tom, thanks alot for some good laughs with my dad. You are a funny man! I was just posting an expierience, the silver was cool, and our best day yet, this went far enough though. No hard feelings.

 

[wheatfinder13]

Tom, thanks alot for some good laughs with my dad. You are a funny man! I was just posting an expierience, the silver was cool, and our best day yet, this went far enough though. No hard feelings.

That is a very gentlemanly thing to do and let bygones be bygones

 

[Beercanman]

I'd douse that entire field with my shovel. HH

 

[chkn]

I'm gonna have to try some of that. Keep us posted!

 

[g-olden years]

I'm glad this worked for you and that you shared the method as well as your excitement in the finds! Hope the three X's at top of your map yield some nice silver also. We're all tuned into our surroundings in varied ways, some ways we're aware of and some maybe we're not; and it varies from person to person. Which is part of what makes life so interesting! HH Andi

 

[Jeff H]

I think I'm going to invent a new dowsing device. It will be an alternative to pendulums and rods, for anyone who wishes to give it a try: You coat an old tennis shoe with peanut butter, sprinkle it with bird-seed, and throw it up in the air. Wherever the shoe points to, when it hits the ground, is the direction of treasure!! Walk 20 paces in that direction, and repeat the process. Each time pull out your detector to "pinpoint", and I gaurantee you: you will eventually find something metal. Heck, maybe even a good item! Why? Because the peanut butter tennis shoe worked! If you call this nonsense and rubbish, then why? Simply apply the talking-points you see here from the advocates of dowsing, and you will see that my tennis shoe idea is un-assailable. You simply have to "believe".

Tom in CA, you can get much better accuracy to your tennis shoe/peanut butter/bird seed method if you wait until a bird eats the bird seed, then you shoot the bird, slice it open and read the entrails. As you know, reading entrails is a commonly accepted method of divination in many cultures.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

.... reading entrails is a commonly accepted method of divination in many cultures.

Come to think of it Jeff, you're right. I've heard that one too , as something perhaps in cultures steeped with voodoo superstitions, etc.... And I suppose it has to be lent full respect as simply "someone's experience". In fact, I bet if you polled enough of those who believe the entrails thing works, that you eventually find ones who will swear to you that they subsequently found water, or an abducted child, or a winning lottery ticket #, or gold, or .... whatever. And then what do you do? Argue with success? haha.

About 15 yrs. ago, I was getting ready to head to Mexico, with one of my employees, to chase some cache stories. He was a first generation immigrant, with broken english, who was to be our guide. In the week that preceded our trip, we were packing our supplies, making our plans, etc... The fellow brought to me a treasure mag. advertisement, and some kellyco ads, for dowsing devices, saying we needed to "buy these" with our combined budget. And some of those LRL's weren't CHEAP!! At the time, I really didn't know how to answer. I'd simply assumed they were all hocus pocus. But my host was intent that we really needed to get them. He was spell-bound by the claims of "gold from a mile away" and all sorts of printed claims. And .... heck ... how can you argue with a picture of someone posed next to their jar of coins or treasure?? Pictures don't lie afterall? I had a hard time answering such objections, and set about to do my own research, at that time, to try to answer his objections.

So if anyone is wondering why I am "passionate" about it, that experience of trying to NOT have our mutual pool of money spent on such things, and the research at that time into the pro's and cons', is the genesis of that.

 

[jewelerguy]

fantastic silvers!

 

[Michiganne]

Sweet silvers. Good luck on the rest of the area.

HH

 

[Tnmountains]

To each his own I say.

 

[thewoodboys]

Ok, so finally got to get back to that field and checked the other X's! And well, there was no more silver, at those spots. Ha, but like I said it just happened to work that day, but at another spot, not at one of these X's, I did find silver! My first seated, and this has to be the most worn coin I have found yet! So as far as dowsing, who knows why it worked that day. For now on though, I'll just be checking places with my metal detector. Happy Hunting to all, and stay blessed over the holidays! TheWoodBoys