THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS

AUGUST '26 NEWSLETTER FEATURED ARTICLE

DOWSER PETER HARMON – IN THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER– AUGUST 19, 1975

DOWSER Peter Harmon with one of his Y-Rods

PARCHED TOWN SPENDS $180,000 TRYING TO FIND WATER –

THEN DOWSER DOES THE TRICK FOR $500

BY JOHN BLACKBURN

After pouring $180,000 down the drain to find water, a parched Maine community finally turned the tide for $500 by shipping in an old-fashioned water dowser. 

"I can smell water," boasted the water dowser, 33-year-old Peter Harmon, " I can feel it tugging at me like a bobber on a fishing pole."

"Harmon saved us from becoming a dry town," beamed a grateful Arland Fitz, director of the New Sharon, Me., water district.

"To conserve what water we had, we banned lawn sprinkling and car washing," Fitz continued. " We even restricted people to one bath a week and encouraged families to take their weekly baths together."

To save its problem, New Sharon – population 725 – twice hired engineering firms and spent $180,00 in federal loans over a 5-year period to find water.

"All they did was dig holes all over town," Fitz explained.

"We kept hoping but nothing happened – except the town got to looking like the surface of the moon with so many holes in the ground.

"We're patient folk – but not that patient. So we called Harmon. And for a $500 fee he found water at five different cites in one day. Now we can take all the baths we want."

Harmon told the ENQUIRER he dowses with a "Y-rod– a long piece of plastic."

Then he confided: "But I only do that when people are watching me. If nobody's watching, I just use my hand to find the water."

"Some people think that it's just a barroom trick but it really isn't. I can actually smell and feel the water."