Divining. Dowsing. Witching. Switching. These strange words all refer to the same thing, an ancient method of finding ...

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 ...

There are numerous studies that show dowsing is no more effective at discovering water or whatever than pure chance or a guess. Sometimes dowsing is referred to as divining. In the US and elsewhere ...

It was the winter of some discontent. January began with news that the shallow 30-foot well had played itself out, which was an expense that we were ill-prepared for. There were signs beginning in ...

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 witches. Practitioners of ...

“I’m going to get comfortable here and hold this button above the water,” says Mike Gerhard as he sits on his lawn. “If there’s water underneath the ground here, the button will start moving. And ...

(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 witches. Practitioners ...