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Dowsing Experiment Held At Elizabethtown College
Fire Chief Gordon B. Ressler joined 25 participants in Lancaster County s first controlled dowsing test at Esbenshade Hall Elizabethtown College In front of officials volunteers used steel pliers coathanger wires brass rods and other tools to seek water under experimental conditions Officials tracked when tools crossed or moved and compiled results for study by physics professor Hubert M Custer The exercise aimed to gauge the water hunting phenomenon and its potential scientific basis.
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Elizabethtown
Gordon B. Ressler
Paradise
Elizabethtown College
Esbenshade Hall
Ressler
Lancaster County
Hubert M. Custer
Custer
Guy S. Edmiston
Lancaster
Edmiston
Donald Kretzing
Kretzing
Jere Greiner
Manheim