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 ...

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?

Richard Warburton takes a wire coat hanger, cuts the hook off, cuts and straightens the wires and bends the metal into two “L ...

Bill Getz is a water dowser from Schoharie County who uses two types of divining rods to attempt to locate ground water. Bill Getz was four years old when he was first told he had a gift for ...

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 ...

We put divining rods to the test to see if they can uncover the hidden stories beneath the earth. Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to ...

FAR WEST TEXAS—Before Jeff Boyd became the city of Marfa’s public-works director, he had a long career underwater. As a commercial saturation diver, one of the most specialized kinds of divers around, ...