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 ...

Divining. Dowsing. Witching. Switching. These strange words all refer to the same thing, an ancient method of finding ...

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 ...

Thames Water and Severn Trent Water are still use dowsing rods to detect leaks despite scientific studies showing that the method is ineffective. A 2017 investigation found that 10 out of 12 water ...

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?

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 ...