People with an unsatisfied will-to-believe have been getting solace from Novelist Kenneth Roberts’ Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod. It tells with plenty of “evidence” how a good old state of Maine ...

Richard Warburton takes a wire coat hanger, cuts the hook off, cuts and straightens the wires and bends the metal into two “L” shaped rods, also known as dowsing rods. He walks with one rod in each ...

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 ...