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?

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 ...

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 ...

Laugh if you like, but my father wanted to drill a well in our suburban California yard, for irrigation back around 1970-ish. Hired an old codger with a pair of sticks, who walked the yard, pointing ...

ROCK ISLAND — Amy Frye, of Clinton, uses dowsing to help find unmarked graves and cemeteries. “I have been dowsing for over 10 years, since I first learned the practice at an open house at the ...