He could have been a complete nut, or... I have tried dowsing for water and found it very accurate. We had a problem with the water supply to a house. There w

He could have been a complete nut, or... I have tried dowsing for water and found it very accurate. We had a problem with the water supply to a house. There was a spring that fed a collection tank through some pipes under agricultural land, we guessed that a tractor had squashed the pipes somewhere along their length. A backhoe was booked for the following day so it didn't really matter whether we got any results or not but we decided to try dowsing to see if we could work out the path of the pipes, just for a bit of fun more than expecting it to really work. We used some bent aluminium rods and walked about a bit in the field sticking twigs into the ground wherever the rods moved. This worked for some family members, not for others. The next day the backhoe dug out the old wooden pipes and they were exactly underneath where we had placed the twigs on the surface but several feet down.