Dowsing is a technique for searching for invisible things (mainly underground water veins, mineral deposits, etc.) using ...

A man uses dowsing rods, which he believes are affected by the Earth's magnetic field, to locate unmarked graves. He believes that disturbed earth from a burial creates a different magnetic field, ...

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 ...

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There are numerous studies that show dowsing is no more effective at discovering water or whatever than pure chance or a guess. Sometimes dowsing is referred to as divining. In the US and elsewhere ...

BARNEY D. EMMART served in the Army Air Forres as a meteorologist during the war, was graduated from Harvard in 1947, and took his doctorate at the University of London. He is now living in Baltimore.