The practice of using a branched wooden stick (a dowsing rod) to locate underground water or buried minerals is known as dowsing or divining. In some areas of the United States, this practice may be ...

ST. HELENA, Calif. – With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.

A house a couple doors down was recently sold, and for whatever reason the underground utility folks were called and marked up the area with the water/gas/electrical lines, etc. As I was watching from ...

BARNEY D. EMMART served in the Army Air Forres as a meteorologist during the war, was graduated from Harvard in 1947, and took his doctorate at the University of London. He is now living in Baltimore.

DEAR BONNIE: Recently, I came across a woman on YouTube using dowsing rods to get a yes-or-no question answered from spirit. Can you tell me how this works and if it’s a good tool to work with or not?

Leroy Bull was about 12 the first time he dowsed. He and his cousins were at a family reunion in Watertown, NY, and his grandfather, a dairy farmer and water dowser, took them all outside, handed them ...

If you have real problems hopping on to a Wifi network while you’re out and about, your worries are over. You can now slip this Wifi dowsing rod into your pocket to help you find those elusive Wifi ...

How a Thoroughly Debunked Idea Refuses to Die, and Why 400 People Paid €150 to Eat Dinner With It in Porto Hal had been dowsing for thirty-one years and he was not about to apologize for it. The rod ...

Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an Oxford Ph.D. student and science ...

The practice of dowsing, long associated with finding water or mineral deposits, has other applications in the modern age. Todays dowsers, who say they have a heightened sensitivity to the forces of ...