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 ...

Most Ozarkians have heard of dowsing, an ancient method of locating graves and underground flowing water. The technique has been used in this region since settlers arrived in the early 1800s, and it ...

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 ...

Indeed, the dowsing rod's movement has been attributed to everything from electromagnetic forces to extra-sensory perception. William Carpenter, the famed 19th-century physiologist and naturalist, ...

Low turnout for the "Wizards School of Dowsing" program didn't douse the confidence of Terry and Steve Klunk, who presented their program Saturday to a small group at the Kirk-Bear Canyon Library, ...

CALISTOGA, Calif. -- In a vineyard flanked by scorched hills and charcoal trees, Rob Thompson gripped two stainless steel rods, began rotating in a circle and counted under his breath. Then he said he ...

IPSWICH — When Elizabeth Green found herself in dire need of a new well-water source to sustain her 5-acre hillside plot this summer, the 40-year-old farmer did not turn to scientists or surveyors.