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 ...

THE QUEST: Bill Muerdter dowses his Asheville property using a pair of L-rods. While the practice is primarily known as a way to locate water prior to digging a well, dowsing also has a long, rich ...

Most Ozarkians have heard of dowsing, an ancient method of locating graves and underground flowing water. The technique has been used in this region since settlers arrived in the early 1800s, and it ...

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Our article reported results from two Soviet geologists who found dowsing “extremely useful in pinpointing several metal ore deposits”. It went on to describe other reports of success.… Roman ...

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 ...

Leland Keele said his wife, with whom he had four daughters, was annoyed when he’d tell her she was pregnant - before she even knew. The Blackfoot, Idaho native and resident of Plains for the last 11 ...

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, ...

DORRIS, Calif. — Some years Tamara Mitchel’s phone doesn’t ring much. But this year, living in a region where an unprecedented drought has already resulted in water cutoffs to irrigators, the phone ...

On a recent sunny Monday morning, 85-year-old Doug Brown pulled up to a breakfast joint in Willits in his white pickup. Bold white letters on the tinted camper shell window spelled out "Water Witcher, ...

ST. HELENA, Calif. (AP) – With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water ...