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 ...

The women walked slowly across the backyard, holding small, Y-shaped rods at the ends of their extended arms. When they reached a certain point, their rods pointed downward and the women stopped.

Discover the alarming truth behind dowsing techniques for bomb detection used by the Iraqi military and their proven ineffectiveness. Checking cars with dogs, however, is a slow process, whereas the ...

Experts explain how we can save and purify the world's water supply. Usually, the boundary between science and science fiction is as distinct as the difference between the 6 o'clock news and "The ...

South West Water has admitted that it uses 'magical' water dowsing techniques to detect water pipes and potential leaks. Described as a 'historic pseudoscience', water dowsing or divination involves a ...

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, ...

A depiction of a divining rod in use in Britain during the late 18th century, from a volume by Thomas Pennant (Courtesy the National Library of Wales) Almost all of the UK’s water companies have ...

The Big Sky Dowsers Association will gather for its 38th annual meeting at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, at Edgerton Park in the Heights. The public is invited to see dowsing demonstrated and learn the ...

Spiritual dowsing is an ancient art based on the belief that everything in the universe emits a unique energy, and we humans have the ability to sense and work with this energy using the right tools ...

I am no fan of pseudoscience, as you may have guessed. Dowsing is a practice that falls squarely in that field. It’s the idea that you can detect an object – usually water, but sometimes gold, or ...