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 ...

Josh is a staff writer covering Europe, including politics, policy, immigration and more. Americans are always being told that their view of Britain is wrong. The U.K. is, we hear, not a quaint little ...

I am a huge fan of the divinatory arts. Tarot and oracle cards, runes, flame gazing, you name it. I've even dabbled with Ouija boards (although I can't in good faith recommend you mess with those ...

Two L-shaped metal rods slowly spin in Greg Storozuk’s clenched fists as he gently steps through the grass near Sloan’s Lake. “The answer is already known,” he says. The rods rotate into a wide Y.

I am no fan of pseudoscience, as you may have guessed. Dowsing is a practice that falls squarely in that field. It’s the idea that you can detect an object – usually water, but sometimes gold, or ...

The women walked slowly across the backyard, holding small, Y-shaped rods at the ends of their extended arms. When they reached a certain point, their rods pointed downward and the women stopped.

The Big Sky Dowsers Association will gather for its 38th annual meeting at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, at Edgerton Park in the Heights. The public is invited to see dowsing demonstrated and learn the ...