BDD.... First off before I go any further PLEASE do not think I am "attacking" YOU and/or your beliefs, or your postings at all. This IS NOT my intent what-so-ever guy. I seek to understand your thinking, thought process and experience on what I am inquiring. And/or I am asking for examples of support of them.
Obviously from your postings Tim you rely some upon "remote sensors" & "dowsers". Again... I'm NOT attacking but seeking to understand guy as I admit I am native upon the "remote sensor" route. I did watch my grandfather dowse as a child and again a guy from the power company (last year) trying to help me locate something for me. Last year I wanted to know which side of a power pole my water and power line laid. Both were in the same ditch as I did it myself but couldn't remember. He followed the "lines" but couldn't tell me which side of the pole they laid.
1. In laymen's terms (short version) what is a "remote sensor"? 2. Why do you use/rely/trust them? 3. Do YOU have any evidence that ANYONE has found ANYTHING solely from their (remote sensor's) knowledge alone? 4. Have you any first hand knowledge of anyone finding anything of wealth from dowsing? If you do decide to address 1-4 separately I would be highly interested and intrigued to hear.
I guess I'm just curious in your learned/trained though of exploring and what example's you draw from Tim. Believe me guy.... I WISH YOU AND ALL the best in any means you use to find a cache no matter where it's at or how you find it. With that said we need not (none of us) to say anything remotely that diminishes somebody's found cache unless it's obvious that it is ill gotten.
Later, Brad
1. I use the term remote sensor for lack of a better term. Some people can use psychic powers to come up with information that exists within mental world of thought. I have worked with and tested map dowsers and what I saw convinced me of their ability. This did not happen overnight. I am presently working with an individual that is using a method that I do not know the details about and am not going to ask. The point is that so far I still believe in him and that is all that matters to me. I really don't feel like I need to convince anybody else as I have learned that this is usually a futile effort.
I am posting about all this on the World Wide Web as I am willing to put myself out on a limb to eventually perhaps be in front of the whole world so that there will be no doubt what the truth is. I was under contract to star in a treasure hunting reality show and I had plans to prove dowsing, remote sensing and other things actually work. The production company was going to require me to fake things which I am not interested in.
In 1987 at the age of 32 I became involved in the quest to recover the buried treasure from the German U-Boat U-853. A childhood friends father had acquired the treasure from the sub. It was buried next to the parking lot by the Montauk Point Lighthouse. It is a very long story and I wrote a book about it. At the time I was at the lighthouse in 1987 I knew nothing about dowsing other than I had heard you could find water with a forked stick. While doing some research at the Montauk library I found out about someone else trying to dig up the sub treasure at the parking lot and it turned out to be Ovid Arnold. Someone he knew had talked to one of the survivors in Germany that had actually buried the treasure. I ended up spending a lot of time with Ovid and went on many trips with him over a five year period.
I had been a Combat Engineer in the Army, became a paratrooper and went to Jungle Warfare School in Panama. We spent a lot of time with maps and compasses. This was in 1975-79 and was long before GPS and computers. I had an open mind when I first ventured out with Ovid and when he told me he would lead us to locations using only a pendulum I was very skeptical but kept an open mind. There was (and still is) a part of my mind that thinks the whole concept is somewhat crazy but when you see enough things you can become a believer. That is part of the problem here on TNET because there is no way to convince anybody of anything by just talking about it. It has taken me 28 years to get to this point.
Ovid was put to the test by some skeptics back around 1990. I was right in the middle of this testing and he passed with flying colors. The skeptics became believers. In fact one of them is now building an electronic gold finding device that we are waiting to test.
2. I trust them because of what I have seen with my own eyes.
3. Remote sensing will only get you close. GPR and other methods all seem to agree with the remote sensors info. It is a work in progress. Ovid's testing seemed to confirm his ability. I would be lying if I said I had found treasure. There are other people involved in all this that claim the remote sensors has been right on target. There is only just so much information that I am going to put on this public forum. There is no reason for me to say too much. We gain nothing.
4. I honestly believe that Ovid found many things. He told me about them in great detail. It was first-hand knowledge from him to me. I did not see him do it. I don't expect you or anyone to believe this. He found gold, wallets, silver, dead bodies, and more. Talking about this on this forum in no way compares to spending hundreds of hours with him over a period of five years.
The fact that I have not dug up any treasure that Ovid may have led me to or treasure that the current guy I am working with, is entirely my fault, not theirs. I am not a stupid person. I have a college degree and have spent almost 35 years in the construction business. The fact that I still believe in all this after 28 years ought to tell you something. Either I am just crazy or I may be on to something fantastic. I am not on drugs, I don't drink and I have a kind of "show me" attitude when it comes to everything. I do not rely on anybody to tell me what to think.
For reasons of my own I have been holding back from going full-force to dig up treasure. If it is meant to be and the time is right, the truth will come out.
Before I joined TNET I was working on a book so that I could have everything in writing. It was thru research that I ended up joining this site. I have had over a dozen TNET members come to my house and have met a couple dozen more thru the treasure hunter's yearly barbecue. Ask ANYONE that has met me in person if I seem to be someone that is full of baloney. I have invited vor and ECS to my home to meet me in person and be taken to some of the sites. They have continued to decline my offers. I invited ECS to ride along with me to the yearly barbecue but he has declined my offers.
Everything is still a work in progress. If I succeed at what I am trying to do, you all may be the first to know.