pull, i guess, on the end of a stick? is that what that is? because there s water in the ground? if that s, in fact, what s going on? yes. there are a number of explanations for dousing, and electromagnetic pipe of connections between the douser and the source is one explanation. where it gets really strange is when you talk to dousers who do off-site dousing. in that case, what you re dealing with is a dowser can be any distance from a target and he or she is using a map and a pendulum to allegedly find the source of water. they re not even there at the site. so if that information is reliable, and i m not saying it necessarily is, but if we take that into consideration, we re no longer in the realm of things like electromagnetism, we re more in the realm of psychic phenomenon. and at the end of the day, what is your explanation of the appetite for the paranormal, for the open space in the minds of people, in this case, they say, 75% of americans, but i think it s beyond our own c