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Henry Gross (1895–1979) was an American game warden and dowser. Gross worked as a game warden in Biddeford, Maine. He was most well known for his search of objects and underground water by dowsing with a Y-shaped stick. It was alleged by Kenneth Roberts who wrote the book Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod (1951) that Gross located water all ...
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Details of Henry Gross’s early life and dowsing activity are given by journalist and historical novelist Kenneth Roberts in three books.1Gross was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA; his family moved to North Salem, New Hampshire, when he was three. At the age of twelve, he befriended an elderly stonemason, John Dustin, and observed him dowsing, ...
Familiar with the Caribbean island of Bermuda from frequently writing his novels there, Roberts was aware that the island was thought to have no fresh groundwater for drinking, only brackish water; the only sources were rainwater, gathered mainly from the roofs of buildings, and bottled imports. Roberts confirmed this notion and its official status...
Gross participated in tests of psychic ability supervised by parapsychologist Gardner Murphy and others on behalf of Life magazine. He was asked to try to discern between hidden jars containing sand or water and envelopes that were either empty or contained a 25-cent coin. He did not succeed, and the study was not published. Gross was one of two do...
Roberts was ridiculed for his claims regarding Gross in newspapers, magazines, books and even by his own friends. He was said to believe that Gross had ‘rhabdomantic powers which, if only recognized and utilized, would flood the earth with life-giving waters and cause the deserts to blossom like the rose’.9 One Thomas Riddick opined that his ‘illog...
Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod(1951). Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday. The Seventh Sense(1953). Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday. Water Unlimited(1957, published posthumously). Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday.
Gross may be seen dowsing in Tikal, Guatemala in 1957 here(colour, no sound), from the start to 3:06. He appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth on 22 October 1961. The episode can be seen hereand his appearance begins at 15:04. It includes a dowsing demonstration with Gross holding one arm of the rod and a member of the panel grasping it tight...
Kenneth Roberts’s papers, including many concerning dowsing and Henry Gross, may be found in a collection held by Dartmouth University.14 KM Wehrstein
Bales, J. (n.d.). Dartmouth College Library Bulletin: ‘At the nadir of discouragement’: The story of Dartmouth’s Kenneth Roberts Collection. [Web Page.] Dartmouth University (n.d.). Guide to the papers of Kenneth Roberts, 1890-1972. [Web Page.] Gardner, M. (1957) Facts and Fallacies in the Name of Science. New York: Dover. Hansen, G.P. (1981–1982)....
Engineer Riddick wastes little time on Henry’s theory that water rises from great depths underground and distributes itself in veins (it actually comes from rain, streams, etc.), but he hopes...
Feb 27, 2009 · Reading about dowsers, I learned that Mansfield Bleachery Co., needing a well, paid a Maine diviner named Henry Gross $2,000 to find water. Nice work, if you can get it. Gross had a theory that...
- Harry Chase
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), [1] gravesites, [2] malign "earth vibrations" [3] and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus.
Feb 14, 2020 · Henry Gross, one of the best-known American dowsers, was at a reception in the state of Maine, when a dinner conversation about drought-stricken Bermuda led him to try to locate water there with his map.
Toward the end of his life, Kenneth Roberts became acquainted with a Maine game warden, Henry Gross, who claimed to be able to find water with only his hands, mind and a piece of wood. Encountering some skepticism from others, but undaunted, Roberts went on a crusade, writing three books on dowsing; this one, "The Seventh Sense," and "Water ...
- Kenneth Roberts
