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 ...

Bill Getz is a water dowser from Schoharie County who uses two types of divining rods to attempt to locate ground water. Bill Getz was four years old when he was first told he had a gift for ...

Some call it dowsing, water witching or divining. Others call it flaky. Whatever it's called, the ancient method of discovering water underground is finding new life in drought-ridden states such as ...

ST. HELENA, Calif. – 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.

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 ...

ST. HELENA, Calif. (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 ...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The family of a Brunswick County war hero wants to memorialize his grave site, but by law, they won't get any help from the U.S. government or the Department of Veterans' ...

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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?

Last week, we posted a small selection of snake-oil gadgets. It's resulted in a monster comments thread. One particularly strong contingent was that defending dowsing rods, the final item in the ...