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You're listening to episode 246 of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World.

We'll be looking at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about dousing.

I'm Dom Betanelli and join me today as Jimmy Aiken.

Hey Jimmy, howdy, Dom.

The practice of dousing goes by many names and it's been used for hundreds of years, at least.

Dousers use a variety of techniques to find water, gold, oil, and other things.

Today we begin looking at the practice of dousing and we speak with an expert

on the topic. What is dousing?

What do we know about it?

And how does it work?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

Jimmy, what do we need to say to begin today's mystery?

Today will be the first part of a two-part discussion of dousing.

This week we'll be giving you the background on the practice itself.

And next week we'll go into analysis mode and look at it from the faith and reason perspectives.

I'm pleased to say that we will be discussing the subject with an expert dowser.

His name is Dr. Paul Smith and he's been on the program before.

We interviewed him in episode 156 and again in episode 157 where he talked with us about his

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