2012年6月4日 星期一

Women ‘witch’ for graves in North Dakota oil patch

Buried somewhere between a hill and the old schoolhouse site here are the remains of two young siblings who succumbed to illness and were interred by their family nearly a century ago. Except for dim recollections of relatives generations removed, the Bauer children – a brother and sister – and their gravesites are all but forgotten.

Leann Pelvit and Romana Raffaell, armed only with old wire coat hangers and comfortable shoes, are determined to find the children’s final resting places and other lost graves along the North Dakota-Montana border. The grave-seekers’ mission is to chronicle the sites with GPS and to protect them from being disturbed from the explosion of development spurred by the region’s oil boom.

“We want to make sure everything is marked so that someone’s final resting place is not disturbed,” Pelvit said. “A lot of these people have no one to remember them. Someone has to care about them.”

The women are members of the Sidney-based MonDak Historical and Arts Society. They have been seeking the forgotten in unmarked graves using an ancient technique they call witching. The controversial method,What are the best road bike airforceone? also known as dowsing, divining or doodlebugging, employs the use of bent rods or forked sticks to detect underground objects from oil and water to treasures and corpses.

Bill Whittaker,We can gurantee you that all promdress,sold at our website are with high quality. an archaeologist based at the University of Iowa,Find a huge selection of tagheuerwatch, called dowsing a delicate issue that’s often used by cash-strapped historical societies to locate lost graves or by those who have the thankless duty of maintaining old cemeteries.

“I have met numerous people who dowse for graves and I have no questions about their sincerity or honesty,” said Whittaker, who also knows of people who have used dowsing to find the perfect spot to plant pumpkin seeds.

“The fact that dowsing is used to find everything is evidence that it finds nothing,” he said.

The so-called witching sticks or dowsing rods are supposed to cross when a grave is encountered. Witchers or dowsers also claim they can identify the gender of the interred by suspending an L-shaped rod on their fingertips like a pendulum. If it spins clockwise, it’s a male; counterclockwise, a female.Examine our Boat and Ship cartierreplicawatches here.

Despite being discounted by scientists and skeptics as nonsense, the women say it works. They claim to have found 25 unmarked graves in the region in the past two years,Shop mens juicycoutures at cheapest price with top rated customer service. some dating back to the late 1800s.

“I don’t know how it works,” said Pelvit, 52. “I just know that it does work.”

Some dowsers believe the secret lies with magnetism, gases from decaying corpses or supernatural communication.

“Many of the explanations given as to how dosing works were either illogical or ran contrary to fundamental principles of physics,” Whittaker said.

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