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Doodlebugs and Dowsers - A History of Unusual Ways to Search for Oil (Paperback)
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Doodlebugs and Dowsers - A History of Unusual Ways to Search for Oil (Paperback)
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What lies beneath the ground? Our poor eyesight cannot penetrate
even an inch into the soil, so for centuries, fortune-seekers have
tried every way imaginable to see below the surface. Whether
searching for mineral veins, groundwater, or buried treasure,
people have looked for ways to avoid the plodding and backbreaking
process of digging. They have followed dreams, seers, dowsing rods,
and advice from the spirit world. When petroleum became an item of
commerce, oil-hunters took to all these methods. Many built
homemade inventions called doodlebugs, which they said could detect
underground oil. It took a while, but science finally came up with
its own toolbox of oil-finding methods in the early twentieth
century. Finding oil is still expensive and risky, however. The old
ways? They are mostly gone, but a few oil-dowsers still stride
across fields with rod or pendulum, and no doubt people still
consult dreams and psychics. And don’t pretend that you yourself
haven’t wondered if that dowser might be onto something, or if
that famous psychic can really tell where there is oil, or if that
inventor stumbled onto a better way to detect underground oil. Of
course you have. History is written by the victors, and scientists
won over the oil industry—rightly so. But their accounts give
short shrift to the rich history of less traditional ways to find
oil. Although ignored, the records of nonscientific methods and
their contributions to the oil business are well worthy of study.
Lacking in science, they are rich in humanity. Return with us now
to those thrilling days of yesteryear . . . wait,
scratch that . . . these things are still going
on. Join us in a visit to a place where dreams, seers, and spooks
are taken seriously, where forked twigs dip toward oil pools and
homemade oil-finding gizmos blink or beep with the promise of
riches tucked just below the surface of the known world.
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