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 ...

"It's a tool . a poor man's metal detector." Allen has used radar and excavations to verify dozens of his dowsing discoveries. But like the legion of Internet speculators, he can only offer theories ...

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 ...

I needed to do some digging in my yard, so I called the local “1-800-DIG-SAFE” in my area (Midwest USA) I watched out my window while the person marking the water lines used dowsing rods to mark the ...