Dowsing Rods & Phone Finding

I went fishing with one of my work partners the other day. She recently started enjoying fishing. She was my medic partner for a couple years and since she had to move to another shift we try to hang out when we are both off. We had a day off together and since it is spring time we went white perch fishing. We tried a couple other places with no luck so we went to one of my childhood spots that was always good for spring time perch fishing. We moved around to a bunch of different spots on the creek until we found a spot where they were biting. When we were done she couldn't find her phone.

I'm going to keep this short because I'm going to include a screen shot of what she wrote. I did want to talk about how I learned the art of dowsing though. Some people think it's some kind of witchcraft or something but back in the day it was how people found water. One day around 1983 or '84 I was in my side yard with my step father. A town utility truck pulled up out front of our house. A man got out of the truck and had two "L" shaped rods in his hands. He held each rod out in front of him with one in his left hand and the other in his right hand. He walked along the street for a short distance when the rods in his hands crossed each other and made an "X" shape. At that spot he made a mark on the road with spray paint. I asked my step father "what are they doing?" He told me that is how they find water pipes. They use dowsing rods. A backhoe pulled up and started to dig. They found the water pipe that the worker had dowsed for and continued with their work. 

My step father went into the house grabbed some wire clothes hangers and cut them and bent them into two "L" shaped rods. He held them the way the town worker did and walked along the side walk until they went into the "X" shape that the worker had. He said "that's it." "Now you do it." I did it and walked along different areas of the sidewalk and road finding water pipes. I never forgot that and I have practiced a few times. Recently I started to read about dowsing. I read that you can find anything you can think of. I thought it was only water since people who dowse used to be called a water witch. The book I was reading said if you think about oil or coins or what ever, you can find it. So The day I went fishing and Anna lost her phone I grabbed my rods, went to where we were fishing, cleared my mind and thought about her phone. Almost instantly the rod in my left hand pointed over to my left and a little behind me toward the water. I looked in the water and didn't see anything at first but then I looked behind a tree on the edge of the water that had a large amount of vines grown up around it and into the water. There about three feet down in the water I could see a pink rectangle. I was her phone. I would have never found it if that rod didn't point back there.

I bought the rods I use on Amazon. They are just copper rods with a sleeve as handles on the short part of the "L" shape. It makes them spin very easily, maybe too easily. I have to put my thumbs on the angle of the rods to keep them under control. That type of grip keeps movement from just walking to a minimum and the movement I do get is more from the positive results from dowsing. You don't need anything special to do it. As I mentioned earlier, I learned with wire from clothes hangers. Some people use a "Y" shaped stick. I've never tried that because I was taught with the rods and it works for me. I remember as a kid when I lived with my grandparents I saw an episode of 60 minutes I think it was. The episode was about a guy out west who used a "Y" shaped stick to find water. He looked like an old cowboy walking in the fields finding water. It was so fascinating to me then and still is.