Is dowsing fact or fiction? 17 Articles

by GraMarie Walker

I know for a fact that dowsing works. Would you like to learn to dowse so you can test this yourself? Simple instructions and readily available tools make is a fairly easy skill to acquire! Dowsing was taken for grante...read more

by John McDevitt

When you see the word dowser, you probably have an image of a person walking back and forth through a field while holding a forked stick looking for underground water. When the stick suddenly bends groundward, it's suppose...read more

by Darian Peters

Dowsing or divining is a practice that some people believe can help to locate hidden useful resources such as water, precious stones, and metals. Dowsers typically attempt to achieve this by moving slowly and carefully aro...read more

by Michael Bettencourt

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FARM MUSEUM One day, many years ago, I spent a marvelous day at the New Hampshire Farm Museum in Milton, New Hampshire. I used the word "marvelous" in its more or less natural state, as a description ...read more

by Betsy Young

Dowsing is it fact or fiction? With at least 1500 known professional practitioners in the US and almost double that number in Europe many do believe. There have been no definitive scientific studies to set the story straig...read more

by M. J. Joachim

Dowsing the Mind Dowsing is based on a theory that has been practiced throughout history. People determine water sources in specific locations using primitive tools. The theory developed from the hypothesis that a per...read more

by Stanley Roberts

Answering the question of whether something is fact or fiction is very hard. The reason being, there are people who believe and then there are those that feel if mainstream science cannot prove it, it must be false. Speaki...read more

by Siobhan S

Is dowsing fact or fiction? The term dowsing refers to the practice of searching for hidden things, most usually water. The dowser uses various hand held tools, such as pendulums, rods or sticks, over a map or the grou...read more

by Mary Vance

Dowsing, has been used for thousands of years. Through the ages people have used dowsing to search for water, oil, metal ores, gemstones, and buried objects. Willow, and other wood branches have been carved into L-sha...read more

by Rex Trulove

Many people make fun of dowsers and outright ridicule them, and granted, there are many instances of phonies trying to make a buck off of gullible people. However, it would be a big mistake to dismiss all dowsing as a myt...read more

by Heidi Marie Fleetfoot

The ancient art of dowsing has come to be regarded by some people as a sixth sense and to others as a hoax. Experiments have been carried out to attempt to prove or disprove its existence in reality, but as there are not s...read more

by Madhusoodanan.K.P.

Dowsing is an area where the borders between fact and fiction starts diappearing into the realm of uncertainty.From certain facts to fictitious assumptions. Bordering on the grey area of superstition and mythological exp...read more

by Andy Cutler

I was a dowser for 12 years, but now? Now, I'm a non-believer. The first time I let the copper divining rods move and twitch, I was bewitched. I read books on the subject and looked upon dowsing as a fact. There was no ca...read more

by E.L. Miller

If you think dowsing is a hoax, just watch the Mayberry R.F.D. episode "The New Well" and become a believer. In it, Sam refuses an old man's offer to find water on his land, opting for the advice of geologists and other sc...read more

by getlois

Gary Skillen has been a successful and professional Dowser for over 12 years. He primarily searches for water and, although they don't like to admit it, is sometimes hired by mining companies to find large mineral and gem ...read more

by Todd Daigneault

Dowsing has centuries of historical precedent to it. People throughout the ages have been using it to find water, oil, precious minerals and the such. Although widely discounted by science as being a "pseudoscience", the...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

Dowsing is a particular practice claiming to be able to discover underground water, metals and objects y that don't show any trace of their presence on the surface. People practicing dowsing use wood sticks, pendulums o...read more