From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!ncsu!mauney
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: dowsing
Article-I.D.: ncsu.1107
Posted: Mon Feb 21 11:21:05 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 03:31:09 1983


Just to balance the anecdotal evidence on dowsing --

A few years ago I was visiting my parents
and woke up one marning 24 just in time to hear my sister tell my mother
that when she flushed the toilet, sewage came up the bathtub drain.
After some snaking around, we decided we had to deal directly
with the sewer pipe in the back yard.
Only problem: where is the pipe?
My father, being a man of science (and being unable to find the blueprints)
quickly ran to the closet and cut up a couple of coathangers.
Each of us dowsed the back yard, and found the pipe in a different location.
We were all wrong; the problem was solved when my brother decided he
remembered where the pipe was from when the house was built, dug a hole,
and found it.

Of course, it turned out that the pipe was composite, not metal,
so maybe that's why ...

                 Jon Mauney
                 NC State U.