British Dowsing Forum

Just discovered that there is a Spanish translation of the Victor Mertens dowsing book. So it was available in at least three different languages.! http://www.worldcat.org/title/radiestesia-y-telerradiestesia/oclc/432634280 The Spanish translation of the Victor Mertens book contains the following t...

P.S. Just noticed that the book has a stamp on the inside. It appear that it came from the Geology library at the Facutly of Sciences at the University of Rennes! As an aside, when the book arrived the pages had not been cut. In other words the book had been sitting on the shelves at the University...

from the BBC...

Beagle 2, the failed British mission to Mars in 2003, came "excruciatingly close" to succeeding, a study shows.

A new analysis of pictures of the Beagle 2 spacecraft shows that it did not crash-land on the Martian surface.

CLICK HERE to read the article.

Ian

Quote from Wikipedia: The story [Land of Black Gold] was commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, in which it was initially serialised from September 1939 until the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, at which the ne...

Ignore. Random bump.

For some strange reason I can still bump posts, but I can't even delete my own!

Ian

The associate in question was Georges Discry, who refers to his: "Recherches d'Or et de Diamants au Congo Belge, en Australie, pour compte de différentes Sociétés." which may be translated as: "Dowsing of Gold and Diamonds in the Belgian Congo, Australia, on behalf of various companie...

Here is the Wikipedia page on Leopold II of Belgium - not a very nice man at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium There is a possible link with Herge here, because the identity of Herge's grandfather was unknown. There was a rumour that Herge had an aristocratic ancestor and this...

Just discovered that there is a Spanish translation of the Victor Mertens dowsing book. So it was available in at least three different languages.! http://www.worldcat.org/title/radiestesia-y-telerradiestesia/oclc/432634280 The Spanish translation of the Victor Mertens book contains the following te...

I found a review of the book which accompanied the "Psychic Investigator" series in the Journal of the Society for Psychic Research (Jan. 1992, Vol 58, No. 826). The reviewer (Tom Ruffles) says that the experiments "were not scientifically conducted". The successful map-dowsing t...

TV series from the Mid 1980s: "The Strange Affair of..." presented by this white-whiskered fellow called Robert Symes. One episode concerned Ley Lines and featured some dowsers (and an unsuccessful test if my memory serves me rightly). http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a9b238f76d7e41b29919b5cc760...

The Nanteos Cup now has a new home, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

Press release from NLW: CLICK HERE

Report from BBC Wales: CLICK HERE

Ian

I've uploaded a version 3 of my "Tintin's Dowser" article, with a little bit more background on
Mertens, and more on the Dutch version of his book.

Link to PDF file HERE

Ian

(mod - link now working - GG)

IMDB entry for the next big Hollywood Tintin movie: Prisoners of the Sun to be directed by Peter Jackson. IMDB link HERE Ian According to one source, apparently quoting Anthony Horowitz, the whole project has "vanished". "Tintin has vanished, I don’t know if it’s being made or not, b...

IMDB entry for the next big Hollywood Tintin movie: Prisoners of the Sun to be directed by Peter Jackson.

IMDB link HERE

Ian

O.M.G... from p.433:

"Successful men diviners outnumbered women by ten to one in tests"

Ian