HE FINDS WITHOUT LOOKING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

HE FINDS WITHOUT LOOKING

"I am a water diviner, and I’m one of the very few people who can do it as a full-time job,” said Mr Holden, in a broadcast talk in Britain recently. “I always use a whalebone, as I find this is more responsive than hazel wood. The rod is simply a fork, which is held in the hands, and when I am over a spring of water I first of all feel a tingling sensation all over my body—a sort of electrical vibration set up by moving water, and then the rod nioves downwards. It is by the intensity with which it is attracted towards the earth that I feel the depth and quantity of the water. I concentrate specially on water divining, but it is possible to divine other things as well. For example, if you hide a sovereign anywhere in this room, my divining rod would take me to it. I’ve discovered all sorts of minerals at one time or another, and the rod has even led me to skeletons! I could also tell you whether there were any cellars or secret passages beneath this building.”