On a sunny spring morning in 1955, our physical science teacher at Centralia High School told us he had a surprise for us. We were all going outside to watch a young woman demonstrate the phenomenon ...

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 ...

Sandi Isgro, of Stratton, is president of the American Society of Dowsers and recently taught a beginner class on the ...

Jim Barbour runs a vineyard in Napa. He recently had Marc Mondavi help locate a spot to drill a well. "This guy's walking down the road and he's trying to find water and he's talking to his rods, OK ...

People with an unsatisfied will-to-believe have been getting solace from Novelist Kenneth Roberts’ Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod. It tells with plenty of “evidence” how a good old state of Maine ...

Thames Water and Severn Trent Water are still use dowsing rods to detect leaks despite scientific studies showing that the method is ineffective. A 2017 investigation found that 10 out of 12 water ...

Elderly William Jacob Bodenhamer must have been quite a sight more than a century ago hobbling across fields of Ontario and Upland, carrying “instruments of wire and gobs of metal alloys,” recalled ...

It was the winter of some discontent. January began with news that the shallow 30-foot well had played itself out, which was an expense that we were ill-prepared for. There were signs beginning in ...

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