"I never said his name was Dowser I said he was a dowser!"
The Adventures of Sam Spade, 1951 - "The Rowdy Dowser Caper"
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Ian
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- Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:59 am
- Forum: Fiction
- Topic: The Adventures of Sam Spade, 1951 - "The Rowdy Dowser Caper"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2384
- Tue Sep 07, 2021 2:54 pm
- Forum: Intimations
- Topic: Clive Thompson
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2070
Re: Clive Thompson
Very sad to hear this news. I met him at conference quite a few times. 
Ian

Ian
- Sun Jul 11, 2021 8:52 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Famous dowsers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11840
Re: Famous dowsers
I retrieved the page with the EInstein info from the Wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120809235 ... stein.html
Ian
https://web.archive.org/web/20120809235 ... stein.html
Ian
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:30 pm
- Forum: Dowsing in the News
- Topic: Dowsing for gold in Western Australia
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3263
Re: Dowsing for gold in Western Australia
Nice story.
Ian
Ian
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:56 am
- Forum: Dowsing on film
- Topic: British Pathe - vintage dowsing footage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14799
Re: British Pathe - vintage dowsing footage
This is the David Lloyd George clip again, this time with sound !!!
Ian
Ian
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:58 am
- Forum: Dowsing in the News
- Topic: Llangollen's Holy Grail legend - new research
- Replies: 96
- Views: 87488
Re: Llangollen's Holy Grail legend - new research
That's interesting!
Ian
Ian
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Mitchell's Fold (stone circle in Shropshire, England)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 47927
Re: Mitchell's Fold (stone circle in Shropshire, England)
Here's what I said on FB: No mention of Alexander Thom, who surveyed it and found it to be a good match for a "Type A flattened" circle (see Megalithic Rings, p24). So if it was "constructed in the 18th century by Druid Temple enthusiasts" how did the hoaxers know about Thom's ge...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Community in shock as Holy Thorn in Glastonbury desecrated
- Replies: 31
- Views: 33705
Re: Community in shock as Holy Thorn in Glastonbury desecrated
Good grief... this is beyond words.
Ian
Ian
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:47 am
- Forum: Non-Fiction
- Topic: THE DIVINING ROD: John Mullins book
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17683
Re: THE DIVINING ROD: John Mullins book
John Mullins book can be found on the "Wayback Machine" archive here, https://archive.org/web/ as can some other old divining books, others may be available to borrow. Alan The Wayback Machine is an archive of websites. The Mullins book may be found here: https://archive.org/details/b2488...
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:08 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Dowsing in "Herge's Adventures of Tintin"
- Replies: 77
- Views: 85297
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:10 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Dowsing in "Herge's Adventures of Tintin"
- Replies: 77
- Views: 85297
Re: Dowsing in "Herge's Adventures of Tintin"
With the 50th anniversary of the first real Moon Landing just around the corner, an exhibition in Spain will be celebrating the link with Tintin:
http://www.telemadrid.es/programas/tele ... 92928.html
Ian
http://www.telemadrid.es/programas/tele ... 92928.html
Ian
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 8:45 pm
- Forum: In other news...
- Topic: "Merlin was Scottish" say Scots (there's a shock)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 35030
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:10 pm
- Forum: Intimations
- Topic: Thanks Grahame
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11519
Re: WELCOME! Read this second.
Well done Grahame, I hope now that you have gone to the bother of resurecting the forum that dowsers will use it and dowsers will post on it.
Ian
Ian
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Dowsing in "Herge's Adventures of Tintin"
- Replies: 77
- Views: 85297
Re: Dowsing in "Herge's Adventures of Tintin"
Another letter of attestation from the Mertens book, from a Mme Barbier of Etterbeek. Dated 27 July 1940. (p.275, modern reprint) She has had news of her husband whom she has been to see in a hospital in Antwerp where he is being treated. She confirms that during the course of her consultation with ...
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:32 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Dowsing in "Herge's Adventures of Tintin"
- Replies: 77
- Views: 85297
Re: Dowsing in "Herge's Adventures of Tintin"
Was there any actual confirmation that the body exhumed was actually the husband? Did the widow positively identify it (a gruesome and traumatic task I guess), or was there some personal item that she recognised? Without something like that, this story is no better than hearsay. Of course nowadays ...