Marcel Triau - dowsing for a buried elephant

[Grahame]

This would have been a challenge - college students call upon a local dowser to locate the remains of a buried elephant, but for various reasons it was never dug up.

...In December 1951 a group of Williams College students took the challenge. They were unable to find the location of the burial and contacted a well-known local dowser named Marcel Triau to assist them.

Marcel’s technique was to walk with a gold watch chain and with a “lodestone.” In this case he used a baby elephant skull from the school’s geology laboratory in place of a stone. Within six minutes he was able to “pick up vibrations” and identify the spot where poor Columbus was buried. He marked off a plot, 15 feet by 6 feet and pointed to where the head was located.

It's an interesting read, and the full story can be found here.