Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus. Dowsing is also known as divining, doodlebugging, water witching or water dowsing.
A Y-shaped twig or rod, or two L-shaped ones—individually called a dowsing rod, divining rod, or witching rod—are sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all.
Dowsing is a pseudoscience, and the scientific evidence is that it is no more effective than random chance. Dowsers often achieve good results because random chance has a high probability of finding water in favorable terrain. The motion of dowsing rods is now generally attributed to the ideomotor response. The ideomotor phenomenon is a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. In less complex terms, dowsing rods only move due to accidental or involuntary movements of the user. (Stolen from the web)
In another web article it states: “dowsing does not work!”
Well, I did it and it was extremely interesting. When I found the next water line, the engineer painted a line at my feet in the direction of the line and then took the rods and completed the length of the parking lot.