Dousing Rods and Pendulums
While I was growing up, my parents built a cabin in the Colorado mountains—in South Park to be exact (yes, that South Park). When it came time to have the well drilled, the contractor asked if we had witched the well yet? What? What magic is this, I wondered. The driller provided us with dousing rods and gave us instructions. The dousing rods were made out of clothes hangers, straightened into an “L” shape. We gripped the short end of the hangers, one hanger in each of my han
