Dowser Does Iowa

[Starthinker]

Here's a story about a dowser trying to help locate a missing body. The man is known to be murdered but the body can't be found. The officer who took the tip says if they DON'T search the area the dowser (who used a map, not actually on location) says to look and then later on the body is discovered there then it would be a black eye for the department. As opposed to the black eye they'll get for taking the dowser seriously. But this whole article paints the dowser in a positive light, I thought, and the police seemed to take the dowser seriously. Is dowsing so accepted now? I know this must come up all the time but to see it in my local paper really hits close to home. It reads matter-of-factly like dowsing is just something that isn't challenged and is accepted.

The officer is quoted: “It’s a wild goose chase, but it has merit,”

Dowsing officially has merit for this police force now.

I also didn't know there was an American Association of Dowsers.

Heres the link. Globe Gazette Article

 

[Melendwyr]

The officer is quoted: “It’s a wild goose chase, but it has merit,”

Doesn't anyone understand what the phrase "wild goose chase" means, anymore?

 

[LTC8K6]

It's a red car, but it's blue.....

 

[Soapy Sam]

I misread this as "Iona".

I was going to ask him to explain the origin of the greenstones.

 

[PatKelley]

I was puzzled by this...

McGuire, a retired respiratory therapist, got out a map in his home in Iowa City and held a crystal over Waterloo. Then asked: Where is Jesse Patchin? Where is Jesse Patchin?

He was shown the way by a blue string dangling from the rock, held by a snip of tape. From Waterloo, the strand traveled south and then west on U.S. Highway 20. Past Dike to Fern.

So, the string had to take the highway? Does the other side have freeways as well? What if I miss my exit? I have so many questions!

 

[tsg]

And so far, his guess has been as good as anyone’s.

'Nuff said.

Seriously, though, I have a sneaking suspicion that the police take psychic tips semi-seriously in case the tipster is the one who did it.

 

[Major Billy]

Grundy County Sheriff Rick Penning learned McGuire thought he had located Patchin

Ye gods, to think this sort of thing can happen in the Grundy Center of Iowa!