About 25 years ago, I moved to a small community in the southern Colorado mountains. I bought a home, moved in, and immediately had a septic tank problem. And, of course, no one had any idea at all where the septic tank was.
So the septic service guy gets on the phone and calls Ralph, a local "water witch". I'm highly skeptical about anything supernatural anyhow, so by this time I'm freaking out, imagining myself digging holes all over the property, spending hours of back-breaking work or thousands of dollars just to find the tank.
And it doesn't help when Ralph shows up - he's got to be in his 80's and he looks like we just woke him from a long hibernation in a cave. As I'm standing there watching him and the septic guy talk, he looks at me and says "You don't believe this, do you?". I say "Not really", and he says "Watch this, then".
Ralph goes to his truck, graps a couple of copper welding bars with small 90° bends, and starts walking the property. In his hands, the bars are swinging all over the place. It takes him about 10 minutes to start zeroing in and 5 minutes later, he announces the location. 15 minutes after that, the truck is pumping and I'm still not believing what I just saw.
So then Ralph walks over to me and says, "That will be $20. You still don't believe it, do you? Well, I can teach you how to do it." He walks me over to where the buried line is, places me over it, stands in front of me, puts the rods in my hands and grabs my hands with his. Then he gives me this very intense wild stare right into my eyes and I feel the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up.
"OK, that's it. You can do it now - try it", he says. And he was right. And that's how I became a water witch.
And if you don't believe me, I'll come over to your house and locate your septic tank or sprinkler lines. I do it all the time for clients. Really.
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