Slimbridge Dowsing Group: Some interesting requests

SLIMBRIDGE Dowsing Group has had a busy year.

In addition to our usual programme of meetings with speakers twice a month, we have been receiving more than our usual share of requests for help by dowsing.

A lady in Frampton-on-Severn asked for help in finding some lost jewellery.

Two of us went along, and I became quite excited when my rods directed me upstairs to the master bedroom, round the bed, and ended up pointing at the third door in a long run of fitted wardrobes.

The lady opened the doors and drawers within and searched thoroughly.

We found lots of nice jewellery in the top drawer, and she said that is where she had kept the missing pieces as well.

A salutary lesson in asking the correct question!

I had been asking, “Where is the missing jewellery?”

Regular readers will know I should have asked, “Where is the missing jewellery NOW?”

Another fascinating request came from a couple living in Wotton-under-Edge for help with a possible resident spirit and geopathic stress in their 14th century cottage.

Our Chairman, Peter Golding, went along and removed the geopathic stress, and they felt the benefit straight away.

While there Peter was able to tell them other things about the history of the property, and with its cellar, attics and abundant beams, it was a privilege to dowse.

However, you shouldn’t dowse for too long at a time, so Peter agreed to return, and bring reinforcements.

So I went along too, and because Peter’s back does not permit stairs very easily, I had a splendid time down in the cellar, up in the attics, and getting lost in between. There was history a-plenty, beams galore, and yes, there had been a death in the sitting room many years ago, but it was not a violent death, probably from a heart attack.

Other requests are more mundane: a farmer with a leaking pipe in Berkeley; a lady with underground springs in her fields that don’t always stay underground!

That was a wellies job that day.

Such people are always grateful and delighted when we are able to help, and keen to pay a fee, but we don’t always get it right.

If we’ve done OK, we will accept a donation to Group funds, but if we don’t get it right, we decline payment.