Carl Huntley uses brass welding rods like these to locate underground water sources. He holds the short end in his hand and the long end parallel to the ground. When he walks over a water source, the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Well driller Randy Gebke usually uses a geology database and other high-tech tools to figure out where to sink new water wells for clients. But if asked, he’ll grab two wires, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Well driller Randy Gebke usually uses a geology database and other high-tech tools to figure out where to sink new water wells for clients. But if asked, he'll grab two wires, walk ...

On a sunny spring morning in 1955, our physical science teacher at Centralia High School told us he had a surprise for us. We were all going outside to watch a young woman demonstrate the phenomenon ...

What Mondavi was concentrating on is the ancient practice used for finding groundwater known as water witching, or dowsing. Witching is believed to have been in use for centuries, and involves using ...

Locating underground water by use of a forked stick is a practice that has been known and used for centuries. Indeed, a European scholar named Georgius Agrocola published a treatise on the subject as ...

Dowsers do more than find water. Dowsing, also called water witching or divining, is an ancient art used to find the unknown, including the location of water or minerals, or unresolved health ...