Spirit Detector Dowsing Rods

I realise this is all about haunted artefacts, and I assure you, that even though I created my Spirit Detector Dowsing Rods, they do fit into this category.

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The L-Rod Dowsing Rods, as pictured above, have two compartments that may be loaded with anything. For instance, it you were looking for gold, to place some gold in the chamber. Or water, or oil, whatever you are looking for, you place a sample in the compartment.

Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher, believed in “life after death and the existence of ghosts, spirits, and 'stay behinds'”. Ghosts were, according to him, imprints left in the environment which could be "picked up" by sensitive people. Spirits were intelligent beings who could interact with the living, while "stay behinds" were those who found themselves earth-bound after death.”

I work under the assumption that if a person is not sensitive in such a way as Mr. Holzer is, that, perhaps, there are ways to compensate. Thus, the “invention” of Spirit Detector Dowsing Rods.

Last November (2016), I lead a ghost walk around a famous and well-documented haunted site. I wanted the walkers to have a great experience (and I realised that they might not have the “sensitivity”). My wife and I drove out to the site extra early. Early enough to make a short detour. A detour to Multnomah County Pioneer Cemetery...

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There we found a very recent excavation with a pile of loose dirt (see the far right of the above picture) and we grabbed a handful of dirt, shown in the pictures above, in the small plastic bag. Working under the assumption that if we fill the chambers of the dowsing rods with graveyard dirt, it will help the walkers find a spirit of the dead. I had two of the ghost walkers scoop in a bit of the graveyard dirt into the two chambers. Instant ghost detector!

The Horseless Carriage Tail Lamp

I found this horseless carriage kerosene tail lamp when I was about 10 years old. It was my first haunted artefact and I still am proud to have found it. Near where I lived as a boy, there was this informal dump which included, among other things, an old hand crank wringer washing “machine”, parts of a broken gas stove, several sets of springs from a horse drawn carriage, the twisted frame of the model T, and many lumps of unidentifiable rusted metal. One summer whilst admiring the junk, a green glint caught my eye; something I had never seen before had emerged from the dirt and sand. It was this horseless carriage kerosene tail lamp.

I am not sure if I was drawn to it, or it was drawn to me, but when I first caught the green glint from the green lens, I knew it was something very, very special. As I grew up, I tried to mentally understand this strange attraction, and without realising, began to develop my mystic insights well beyond my age. Years later, my wife and I were cleaning out some old boxes we have never unpacked from our last move (which had been over ten years ago!), when she turned to me, holding up the lamp, and said, “What is this? It is really cool! There is something really interesting about it.” That evening after dinner, I pulled out the lamp and showed her the green glint. Thereafter she understood why I had kept it all these years.

To this day I am still uncertain about the nature of this strong attraction to, what most people would consider, a bit of junk. When you see the green glint, you too will agree it is not junk, but just as I, you may not understand why.

 

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