He hands them a forked stick or two L-shaped rods and teaches long lines of curious onlookers just how to go about finding underground water. Schaffer is a water witch, a diviner, a dowser. He ...

The practice of using a branched wooden stick (a dowsing rod) to locate underground water or buried minerals is known as dowsing or divining. In some areas of the United States, this practice may be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two L-shaped metal rods slowly spin in Greg Storozuk’s clenched fists as he gently steps through the grass near Sloan’s Lake. “The answer is already known,” ...

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 ...

PORTSMOUTH — Glen Johnson said he once used his dowsing rod to communicate with a lost cat. The cat came back the very next day, he said. Welcome to dowsing in the 21st century. The 73-year-old North ...

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.

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 ...

Dear John: The phone line was busy every time I tried to call in today in regards to divining rods. I am the child of a scientist and the father of two doctors and not one inclined to believe ...

A British biologist has discovered that 10 out of 12 of the biggest water companies in the United Kingdom still use divining rods to locate water underground. Sally Le Page's investigation was ...

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?