By BECCY TANNER
The Wichita Eagle 

Kansas dowsers use folk tradition to find bodies, water

 

April 11, 2018



WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A cold north Kansas wind blew as strong as they come on the day Vince Marshall and Marvin Richards dowsed for graves in Wichita's Highland Cemetery.

Braided copper wires in their hands, the two men walked slowly across the century-old graves of the family of James Oakley Davidson, one of Wichita's wealthiest and earliest town boosters. Though some of the graves were marked, they were looking for others that might not be.

As Marshall and Richards came to a spot where a body was believed to be buried, the rods moved. In Marshall's case, they crossed. They went in opposi...



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