Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday 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 ...

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 ...

George Kachadorian's non-fiction debut film, "Divining Mom," connects with auds in a different way than was originally envisioned. Conceived as a look at dowsing, the ancient practice of using ...

Richard Warburton takes a wire coat hanger, cuts the hook off, cuts and straightens the wires and bends the metal into two “L” shaped rods, also known as dowsing rods. He walks with one rod in each ...

Dowsing, also known as witching, has a history spanning over 500 years. It involves using copper rods or sticks to locate water, minerals, or utility lines underground. In the 1500s, the Catholic ...

R. L. WEBER, professor of physics in the University of Kiel, has published in the Journal für Gasbeleucht ung und Verwandte Beleuchtungsarten sowie für Wasser-versorgung a copy of an address on the ...

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?

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.