Galbreath Mound

One day, while walking at the Metro Park just a few miles from where I live, I overheard a Park Ranger and some visitors discussing an Indian mound located at the park.  It occurred to me that this might be a good place to test for an alignment. A few days later, when the park wasn't very busy, I dowsed around the mound and found several lines in perfect radial symmetry with the peak of the mound. I was surprised because everywhere I had dowsed previously always displayed a more random pattern.  This reinforced my suspicion that the alignment was an element of the design and not a mere coincidence, but I decided further investigation was necessary and began looking for other Indian mounds in the local area to see if they might reveal similar alignments.

On March 3, 2000, I returned to the Galbreath Mound to capture a more precise record of my dowsing responses. The image above was created with involuntary muscle movements in response to the telluric pattern I located at the mound.

It is similar to a simple experiment I learned in school, where a piece of paper is placed over a magnet and iron shavings are sprinkled over it to visually display the magnetic field surrounding the magnet.

I built a dowsing rod out of two flexible 24" lavatory supply tubes taped together at one end with duct tape. Then I taped a felt-tipped marker to the end of the dowsing rod to act as a recording instrument. A flat king-sized bedsheet served as my recording medium.

My procedure was as follows:

1. Dowse around the mound to locate a line following a North-South orientation and verify this with a compass.
2. Stretch a rope along the line running North-South.
3. Dowse for a line running East-West and stretch a rope along that line to determine a center point where the two lines intersect.
4. Fold the sheet into quarters and place it in the North-West quadrant, then remove the ropes.
5. Unfold the sheet so that the center of the sheet is aligned with the center of the mound.
6. Dowse around the edges of the sheet, and mark each straight line running toward the center with a felt-tipped marker.
7. Dowse between the straight lines and mark each curved line on the sheet with a felt-tipped marker.
8. Fold up the sheet and return home to study the patterns.

By the time I finished, it was dark out and I couldn't tell if the curved lines surrounding the center were concentric circles or one large spiral. When I returned home and spread the sheet out on my living room floor, I discovered there were not one but two spirals winding clockwise toward the center.

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