Just saying I am a smart guy and I have personally witnessed it many times.
It's just another tool to my dad. He does not find property corners, but he could find your sewer pipe or your sprinkler line without any problem. It has helped me out more than once. I guess you can say it's luck or I'm a liar, but digging in the middle of a pasture and finding an elbow will make you believe. The scope is the same thing, just a dowsing rod. They wanted you to believe they figured it out, but it was just a fancy witching rod. Those who could not dowse called it a scam.
Yes there is not anything fancy in the box. I know that, have always. My dad was a metal detector dealer and was able to obtain one for pennies. However it does work as a fancy dowsing rod. It has a bearing and adjustable rod lengths. It is much more sensitive than simple brass rods, it also has a farther range. If you believe a guy can find a water line with wire rods, you have to agree something is going on we do not understand. Some people need a "machine with buttons to believe, someone else took advantage of that fact. The brass rods only work if you walk over the object. The scope works from a distance. I think it simply has to do with friction and control.
I could take the scope out to an old cabin site and box in a signal that would turn out to be a cast iron stove top and you would say it was luck and that anywhere I dug I may have hit iron junk. however After you find a target at your search location over and over, you start to figure out there is something to it. Now I have boxed in signals very clearly and not found anything. I cannot explain that any better than i can explain how it works.
Just as a note, your tests have pretty much no bearing on actual dowsing. Especially once you magnetize the rods.
I think it's pretty tough to believe this stuff actually works unless you do it yourself. Even then, it can be hard to believe.
With my first experience with dowsing, I used it to find lines in an open field, with absolutely no sign of where the lines were. However, it was also in a field, which was virtually undisturbed, except for the buried lines. That makes it ideal circumstances for dowsing. As I walked, the rods would go from pointing out ahead of me, to pointing toward each other, to pointing back behind me. I could stop, walk back and forth, and they would move back and forth, always becoming parallel with each other (pointing at each other) at the same spot. I tried as hard as possible to make sure that I was not influencing the movement of the rods by the way I was holding my hands. Sometimes, the rods would move away from each other, and point exactly away from each other over the line, instead of toward each other. But they would always go parallel with each other over the same spot. We located several lines this way, and the potholing proved the results very accurate.
Archaeologists know that magnetic fields vary over disturbed earth. They use it to detect buried structures. Of course, they use instruments to measure the changes, and then produce images that display the results - much fancier than walking about with some rods. But any sort of waterline or duct running through a site will jump right out in the images, especially if the ground has a history of being undisturbed, except for the line. However, even more disturbed areas can show up well. I've seen images created over ground that was used as farmland in the 1800's and has been undisturbed field since then, and the images show the furrows that the former farmer plowed, even though there's no sign of the furrows to the naked eye.
Dowsing doesn't work anywhere near as well in areas that have had lots of development. If you use the archaeologists' instruments in such an area, you see blobs of varying fields that merge into indistinguishable blobs.
Just as a note, your tests have pretty much no bearing on actual dowsing. Especially once you magnetize the rods.
well, yes, I suppose the sarcasm font wasn't working. I was able to easily make the rods do what I wanted without any discernible movement of my hands. And that was after 30 seconds of playing around.
But I will say your post carries some weight, given that you are talking about something actually measurable in fields. I don't think we humans have "everything" figured out by a long shot.
