From: utzoo!dciem!mmt Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: dowsing Article-I.D.: dciem.182 Posted: Sun Feb 20 12:06:17 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 13:45:04 1983 References: spanky.213 We had a next-door neighbour once who was a master plumber. On one occasion his gang had a job that required digging up an old drain in a building without plans; new concrete had been laid over the whole floor. They had no real means of telling where it went, except sampling trenches. As a joke, he tried dowsing for it with copper pipe as the indicator. He claims that he found the track zig-zagging across the concrete, and when they dug there, they found the drain. No extra mess in the new concrete. It's an anecdote, and probably embellished in the telling, but it changed this man's opinion of dowsing from thinking it idiocy to believing in it. Martin Taylor