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 o ...

Craig MacDonald carried a Y-shaped stick through Truro’s Victoria Park. With one branch clasped tight in each hand, the free end jiggled in front of him as he walked. Then the free end turned down.

In May 1967, a group of six Williams College students read about Columbus the elephant, who was buried in Lenox, and enlisted the help of a well-known dowser to help ...