The practice of using a branched wooden stick (a dowsing rod) to locate underground water or buried minerals is known as dowsing or divining. In some areas of the United States, this practice may be ...

“Further testing of dowsing…would be a misuse of public funds.” — U.S. Geological Survey report, 1917 Somehow or other, that decades-old admonition has fallen on deaf ears at the U.S. Department of ...

Dowsing is an unexplained process in which people use a forked twig or wire to find missing and hidden objects. Dowsing, also known as divining and doodlebugging, is often used to search for water or ...

In these times, most of the old superstitions have fallen by the wayside, but dowsing’s many believers robustly defend this ancient practice. I am acquainted with scientists and engineers who have ...

“I’m going to get comfortable here and hold this button above the water,” says Mike Gerhard as he sits on his lawn. “If there’s water underneath the ground here, the button will start moving. And ...

Pumpkins, goblins, ghosts, spooks, scarecrows, skeleton images, and haunted houses are appearing across the Wabash Valley this October. Don’t forget to be on the lookout for flying witches on ...

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.