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 ...

He's also, as Lodl says, "the expert" when it comes to divining rods. Allen, whose beard is speckled gray atop weathered features,acknowledges being one of the "better witchers around." But working ...

Users: 10 regional water and sewer utilities in Great Britain What were they thinking? When British scientist Sally LePage’s parents told her that a technician from the local water company used ...

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 ...

Laugh if you like, but my father wanted to drill a well in our suburban California yard, for irrigation back around 1970-ish. Hired an old codger with a pair of sticks, who walked the yard, pointing ...