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 ...

Thames Water is still using the ancient dowsing method to hunt for leaks, despite scientists saying it doesn’t work. The company, which services nearly 15million homes, has admitted some of their ...

Dowsing, also known as witching, has a history spanning over 500 years. It involves using copper rods or sticks to locate water, minerals, or utility lines underground. In the 1500s, the Catholic ...

UK water companies are using divining rods to locate underground pipes despite there being no scientific evidence that the centuries-old tools work, an Oxford University scientist has found. Sally Le ...

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?

Low turnout for the "Wizards School of Dowsing" program didn't douse the confidence of Terry and Steve Klunk, who presented their program Saturday to a small group at the Kirk-Bear Canyon Library, ...

FAR WEST TEXAS—Before Jeff Boyd became the city of Marfa’s public-works director, he had a long career underwater. As a commercial saturation diver, one of the most specialized kinds of divers around, ...

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, ...