From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!harkins
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: dowsing
Article-I.D.: cires.1989
Posted: Mon Feb 21 13:27:31 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 05:48:13 1983

when i was a kid, i learned how to find buried water pipes with bent
coat hangers; a shovel proved the point! a dowser friend of mine and
i chose the same spot (given the general area of say, 100 x 100 ft sq.)
within five feet; i managed to dig a "well" by going down only three feet.
the funny thing is, i just used the shovel itself for that one while
she used the standard bent rods.  i suspect that someone someday will
figure out what sort of magnetic fields are involved and how they produce
the phenomenon (at least that's what i think it); btw, they call it
geomancy rather than dowsing these days.  ernie harkins