The practice of dowsing has been used for hundreds of years, at least, to find water, gold, oil, and more. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk to an expert on dowsing to ask what it is, what we know about it, and how it works.AI-powered
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Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)
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Using Dowsing to Find Hostages
Lebanese hostage crisis was a big thing in the 1980s. "We could have pinpointed these hostages, but there's no way we would have got a seal team or somebody in there to get them because of the setting" The Dividing Hand by Christopher Bird is an overview of what Dowsing is and has been done with it.
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