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 ...

CEDAR FALLS -- The question in “Call the Courier” recently about the effectiveness of divining rods over electronic sensors reminded me of my days as a ditch-digger for a Princeton, Ill., gas company ...

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, ...

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 ...