BELLE PLAINE — Cemeteries can take us places. Just ask Bob Terry, who on a pretty, first-of-autumn afternoon was hard at work here at the picturesque cemetery on a hill that overlooks passing freight ...

We are looking for a water dowser at the golf course where I work. I thought surely there would be one somewhere in Lancaster County. A search only brings up obituaries. Have all of Lancaster’s ...

Jack Coel's business card is Tahoe blue and 3-D, as if his name were floating in cool, clear water. Coel, 59, is a dowser who lives in Lake County and covers the Western states with his twin brass ...

The first thing you need to know about Dowser Dan is that his name isn’t Dowser. Or Dan. It’s Evan. But since 1996, Evan Kelley has been known to hundreds of thousands of kids as Dowser Dan, the guy ...

Leroy Bull was a boy who felt things other children did not. He sensed that there was something right on the edge of his reality, in rural Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, where he grew up in the 1940s and ...

NAPA (KPIX) -- With the drought rapidly drying up reservoirs, farmers are desperately searching for new sources of water and some of them are turning to a mysterious method, thousands of years old.

Isabella “Sissy” Hoblitzell, a homemaker and a dowser who family members said could find water anywhere, died Sunday of complications from dementia at her Owings Mills home. She was 81. The daughter ...

In my previous Baby Boomer Memories column, I shared how my quest to write about dowsing nearly 25 years ago led me down a rabbit hole. Back then I ended up with a story of the 5-ton male elephant ...

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