Water Witching 101

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Published 2012-06-05
Riana Mondavi explains the mysterious art of water witching, a craft her father Marc Mondavi uses to locate water for vineyards for The Divining Rod wines.

All Comments (21)
  • @staceybock8257
    My grandfather witched wells for farmers for years. He always found water and could estimate the depth of the water by the curve of the forked willow--which he cut 3 days prior to the "walk". Farmers came to him time and time again because of his accuracy. I witnessed it several times--I'm a Ph.D. that knows experimental design but I can't explain this one. It is certainly a lost art.
  • @copkhan007
    Believe it or not we tried this during a plmbing class I was taking and the instructor gave us the rods to walk with and find water. We all just laughed until the rods pointed in the direction of a well which none of the students knew about but instructor did because that is the well for the building where we are taking the course. Great stuff.
  • @luckyluke6472
    Thank You, very informative! I got to try it when the excavating company I was working for hired a diviner, he showed me how, and the wire just moves in your hands, I didn't believe it until I tried it, and then I dug with an excavator, and there was water, it works!
  • @robbass7611
    I installed irrigation, and my boss taught me to do it to find waterlines, it's definitely real, but I don't think it's supernatural, I expect it's more electromagnetism
  • @herbhartman7528
    It works!! I was a skeptic but now we use it a lot to find water cavities around houses, we fix leaking basements, very helpful tool!
  • @svenlundergard1
    Well done video. I don't care who says this isn't real, there's no scientific proof etc. I was shown 20 years ago, how to find water with coat hangers. Just like the gentleman in the video, it was so amazing how the hangers crossed right over where the man later showed me there were pipes right under where they crossed! I tried it again just in my neighborhood. I was blindfolded, my friend was leading me by my shoulder. The hangers crossed EVERY time I walked over a sewer pipe, sprinkler system and fire hydrant. I am a 100% believer in this and I was a skeptic before I saw it with my own two eyes. 
  • @Danman1974
    Nice video. I love Riana's presentation
  • @303430
    I was blowing the minds of the local Japanese doing this! so much fun :-)
  • @RayzorFilms
    I just did this at work today for the first time. Interesting stuff.
  • @jwyeager2261
    has the locating of water been verified through a well driller? I would like to see the location of the water source followed up by the video of the well driller finding it....
  • @BigDish101
    Can I ask the rods to point to next week's lotto numbers?
  • Will work this tecnique to find buried metals in coin form? Thanks, for the video
  • rather than getting into the science I tried it out myself on my farm and was pleasantly happy that the borewell at the point I had selected has almost 2 inches water..important to note that many neighbors who have attempted borewell had no success what so ever so yeah it works for sure✌
  • @joeestes8114
    I watched a neighbor of mine growing up find many wells! In fact he was so good he was recommended by a well drilling company!
  • @areeskinwar7274
    Can this be used as a Lecher Antenna .....i dont wanna buy it so wire is free
  • i found groundwater using an apple tree limb cut down to make a "Y" shape walked along with the straight end outward while streching the other end out somewhat gripping tightly, came to a spot where the limb turned sharply downward and marked the spot, had a well driller come out and after drilling through heavy clay and bedrock hit water at approx. 50 feet and was pumping over 30 gallons per minute out of it, became the new well for the house i lived in.
  • @1456Sassy
    I always remembered wells being witched here where I live with a peach limb.