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 ...

There was a mysterious wet area in our farmyard leading my husband, Tom, to suspect a leak in an underground pipe leading to an unused hydrant. He has a backhoe ...

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 ...

So how did I end up with a city employee traipsing across my front yard with divining rods on a recent evening, searching for underground water? The answer begins with a boneheaded blunder on my part.

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 ...

Local woman helps purge bad energy through dowsing Darcy Neumann was thrilled at the prospect of opening a fitness studio, Soulista, at the new Riverside Market and Lofts in Moorhead. There was only ...

There are numerous studies that show dowsing is no more effective at discovering water or whatever than pure chance or a guess. Sometimes dowsing is referred to as divining. In the US and elsewhere ...

From the “Planet” section of the July, 1980 issue of High Times comes an interesting take on the practice of dowsing. Dowsing—the art of locating underground water—has been vindicated as an applied ...