“My dowser then found a small shack on the map where a communicator to the ship would be.”
“Every dowsing organization, or dowser, that we have contacted, has ignored this offer.”
“Marks's history of the practice revolves around a dowser named Romie Nunn who was well known in Wyoming in the mid twentieth century.”
dowsing
The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power.