Dowsing is an unexplained process in which people use a forked twig or wire to find missing and hidden objects. Dowsing, also known as divining and doodlebugging, is often used to search for water or ...

WATER WITCHING: Have you heard of dowsing? Maybe you've heard it called water witching, divining, or doodlebugging? Whatever the term, this practice is the ancient "gift" of finding water, metal, or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two L-shaped metal rods slowly spin in Greg Storozuk’s clenched fists as he gently steps through the grass near Sloan’s Lake. “The answer is already known,” ...

For the past decade, Faye Elder has helped to decode the secrets of the Earth. The Arlington resident teaches dowsing, an ancient technique that she says can detect unmarked graves, to groups as well ...

Last of the water witches? At 33 years young, Scott Hemmer walks Nebraska farmland, waiting on the soft twitch of brass rods held in his hands. “Right here,” he says, pointing to the ground. “About a ...

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 ...

In these times, most of the old superstitions have fallen by the wayside, but dowsing’s many believers robustly defend this ancient practice. I am acquainted with scientists and engineers who have ...

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.