Speaker 1: X ray eyes. In the year nineteen hundred, Guy Finlay
was a fourth grader in Zelva County. Not an average
fourth grader, though, for Guy had discovered that he had
a unique psychic ability. He was able to locate underground
sources of water in that dry ranch country where new
water wells were always needed to sustain life. This was
a valuable skill. Indeed, Guy first mentioned the strange gift
to his father, Joel Finley. I can always use a
new well, was the man's smiling response when Guy told
him that he had already marked the location for an
excellent one on their property. Joel decided to take chance.
He paid some well drillers to bore a hole into
the ground that Guy had marked. He even told the
men that he had chosen the spot based upon nothing
more than a sun's hunch. If the drillers had thought
Joel Finley was wasting his money, they didn't think that
for long. They had barely sunk into the ground when
a cool stream of water came gushing forth. It was
one of the best wells the drillers had ever brought in,
and word of Young Guy's find quickly got around. Before long,
Guy Finley was known as the Boy with the X
ray vision. Ranchers came far and wide to ask the
psychic ten year old to find water on their properties.
Guy was willing to do it, and his father was
willing to let him do it for a price. Before long,
the cost of a well located by Guy's X ray
eyes was as high as five hundred dollars. The Finmilies
probably thought that Guy was set to enjoy a lucrative
life long career as a seer. It didn't quite work
out that way. Many decades later, an elderly Guy Finley
was quoted as saying, the power lasted until my family
started to commercialize on it. Then it vanished. One can
suppose that the talent was like a well that simply
dried up.