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Dowsers in Iowa claim skills go beyond water finding
Retired MU physicist doubts dowsing science while practitioners Schlueter and Friis defend it as an art that can locate water, oil, animals, missing persons, and even buried silver. They describe maps and pendulums guiding their search and see dowsing as a belief system with potential future benefits.
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Drake
University of Missouri
Zabor Harvalik
Schlueter
Tom Friis
Louisa County
Friis
Columbus Junction
University of Iowa
Pooh-Pooh
Linn
Delaware