Richard Warburton takes a wire coat hanger, cuts the hook off, cuts and straightens the wires and bends the metal into two “L ...

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 ...

THIS is a very ambitious book: its aim is to provide a much-needed physical explanation of dowsing and to improve its technique on scientific lines and, at the same time, to present a coherent ...

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CEDAR FALLS -- The question in “Call the Courier” recently about the effectiveness of divining rods over electronic sensors reminded me of my days as a ditch-digger for a Princeton, Ill., gas company ...

Divining Rod's points standing puts him just outside the cutoff for the Kentucky Derby that goes off three weeks from now at Churchill Downs. Being part of the field will require some reshuffling ...