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 ...

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 ...

can be used to identify the best locations to drill.

For centuries, dowsers have claimed the ability to find groundwater, precious metals, and other quarry using divining rods and an uncanny intuition. Is it the real deal or woo-woo? Dan Schwartz ...

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.

Dowsing rods can & do work in a very specific instance - it's an old plumber trick to use metal coat hangers, cut & bent into 90 degree shapes and held slightly between fingers to find iron pipes ...