dave costello
18th October 2011, 14:27
:cool:In 1933 a six-year old boy vanished from his home in Miege in the Swiss Alps. After an unsuccessful search for the boy,the town!s mayor wrote to Abbe Mermet,who had often assisted police in locating missing people. The Abbe needed an article used by the missing person,a description of the last place he or she was seen,and a map of the surrounding area to do his work. He used a pendulum and a form of dowsing to find the missing person. After the Abbe applied his pendulum to the problem of the missing boy,he reported that the child had been carried away into the mountains by a large bird of prey probably an eagle. He also said that the bird-although enormous-had dropped its load twice to rest and regain its strength. There was no trace of the boy at the first placethe Abbe indicated. A recent heavy snowfall prevented a thorough search at the second place,but the conclusion was that Abbe Mermet had made a mistake. When the snow melted two weeks later,however,a gang of woodcutters found the torn and mangled body of a small boy. It was the missing child. The bird had apparently been prevented from completely savaging the child!s body by the sudden heavy storm that had also hidden the forensic evidence. Scientific investigation established that the boys shoes and clothes had not come into contact with the ground where the body was found. He could only have reached the remote spot by air -the pitiful victim of the bird of prey. Later the boys father apologised to the Abbe for having doubted him.