Maria Duval says it’s very easy for her and anyone could do it, with a little training.

I’ve chalked up many successes, and a few failures, of course, but I can prove it, and I’ve got some very interesting testimonies on that subject. For example, once I set off in a helicopter, to try to find a person who had been missing for 5 days. Ten minutes after take-off, although nobody would believe me, we had found the missing person. It was a pilot who had come down in his single-seater airplane,
and all the search parties, over a four-day period, using sniffer dogs, all the crowds of people, had come up with nothing.

His daughter came to see me, and in fifteen minutes I had identified the latitude and the longitude, of the place where he was, and there they found him, half dead, but alive. I have found many people, some of them famous, others less so, for example, the great businessman Schiller, Mr Bitand who had been murdered and left in a suitcase. I was also involved in one of the biggest criminal cases the world has ever known, the family came to see, to ask whether he was still a prisoner of the Russians, or if he had managed to escape, I had to tell the Wallenberg family that he had died of a heart attack, as a result of being tortured.

I have sometimes searched desperately for children, Some of them I’ve found, others not, and that was a terrible thing for me, it caused me a lot of grief and pain, and that pain was a lot worse when I had to tell the parents that the child wouldn’t be found, that the missing child was definitely either dead of gone forever. That was a truly terrible thing. So I stopped looking for missing children, although the police still often came to me, requesting my help, and I put all my heart and soul into assisting them, to help people in immense pain.

Well, there it is. I’ve also looking for treasure, I have to admit. That’s how I found the treasure of Saint-Tropez, jars full of gold!!!! And I can tell, in confidence, that no-one gave me a single coin in thanks! But that doesn’t matter! I successfully located a dog belonging to Brigitte Bardot, I’ve found not less famous cats, and I’ve even found a donkey that had got lost…

You see, there are no limits on what you can find using the pendulum pas.