The Rods Cross for Me
First Experience of Dowsing Rods In the early 1970s I worked for GPO Telephones as a cable test engineer and was often in the position of having to ask a gang to excavate a hole in a road to get to an underground cable fault. It was before electronic services locators were readily available and judging where the duct line containing the cable was positioned was often difficult. One of the old gang leaders, an ex Royal Signals WWII soldier, got two copper rods out of the truck and bent them into L shapes announcing that he could locate the line by dowsing. He proceeded to walk across the section of road surface repeatedly with the rods held out in front of him and, to everyone's great amusement, showing them crossing. Among the hilarity and ridicule, he convinced a couple of us to have a go. Of those of us who tried, two had nothing happen and two of us had other experiences. The first time the rods crossed for me was almost frightening and certainly unsettling. I repeated the...