Reese Burnett, Author at The Ring Finders | Page 3 of 6

Andrea was walking on a snowy and icy sidewalk at her college in Minneapolis when she slipped and fell. She got up and shook the snow off her hands and the ring slipped off her finger and into the snow.

Andrea looked long and hard for the ring, but couldn’t find it. And, to make things worse, the snow on the sidewalk was shoveled a couple days later giving Andrea a much larger area to search. After a few unsuccessful attempts to find the ring, Andrea gave me a call.

We met at the location and, after about 45 minutes, I found the ring just barely under the snow in a snow pile next to the sidewalk where Andrea fell. It’s a beautiful ring and it looked even more beautiful sitting where it belonged: on Andrea’s finger.

 

 

Amanda spent the day in a local park with her two kids and husband hanging out in the grass for a while and then swimming at the man-made pond. While swimming, Amanda noticed that her wedding was missing!

Amanda emailed me and we both hurried to the park to find the ring. The ring was a big one and we were both concerned that someone might spot it and take it home with them. Amanda showed me the grass area where they spent a little time and the area in the water where she swam. Because Amanda had her baby with her, she left after a while as I was going over the grass area. I didn’t find it in the grass so I put on my dry suit and hit the water. I hunted the water for a little over 3 hours making sure I covered it thoroughly but didn’t find the ring.

I let Amanda know the bad news and she agreed to meet me back at the park that same evening to make sure I had covered the areas discussed. I ended searching the grass again and the path they took to to beach, but still no ring.

So we decided to meet one last time two days later just to make absolutely sure I covered everything. This time Amanda’s husband met me and he remembered that they stopped off first in a grass strip by the parking lot to put on sunscreen. We searched the 50 foot long area and, after about 30 minutes, we found the ring shining in the grass!

Amanda sent me a big thank you via text and her husband was absolutely thrilled to bring her ring back home to her.

 

Will was sledding down a little hill in front of his In Law’s house when his ring flew off his finger.  The little hill wasn’t fast enough for him, so he was pushing against the ground to gain speed.

Will’s wife happened to be videoing him as he went down the hill and she showed me a video of the ring flying off Will’s finger and high into the air!

The ring landed quite ways farther than all of us expected, so it took about a half hour to find it. It was great to see it back on Will’s hand.

 

Dana and her husband were playing with their dog in a school yard. On the way home, Dana noticed that she wasn’t wearing the ring that she had made from the gold from her mother’s engagement ring.

Dana emailed me a couple of days later and, because the area was large, I took a buddy along to maximize the chances of finder her ring. We searched for about 2 hours in all the areas they remembered visiting that day in the field and, after not finding it in any of the areas, we started the search over.

The second pass was successful. The ring was just under a clump of grass near the swing set where they were playing. Dana wasn’t able to to come to the search, but I got a picture of her husband and the ring. He was thrilled to be able to give Dana the good news.

 

I didn’t get her name, but she was very unhappy about losing her ring in the lake while landing her kayak. She watched intently and was so hopeful that I knew I had just to find it. I searched for about 3 hours the first day in thick weeds and muck to no avail.

She agreed to come clean out the weeds with some of her friends and when she called me to say the weeds were cleared, I came back with a buddy to search the area again. My buddy found the ring tucked next to a rock about 3 hours into the hunt.  She so happy to get the ring back. I’ve never seen anyone so happy to be reunited with their ring.

Her father was there the second day and he told me the sad story about her husband and that the ring was his.

Jenny was pulling weeds and planting flowers 10 days ago and, after finishing her work, she noticed that her hearing aid was not in her pocket where she had put it. She knew it had to be somewhere in her front yard because she had both hearing aids on while working and placed them both in her sweater pocket right after she finished her gardening while still out in the yard. Later that day only one hearing aid was in the pocket.

Knowing that hearing aids are not easy to find, I invited a buddy come help me search. Fortunately, he found it just off the front sidewalk of Jenny’s house tucked under some grass.

Jenny was thrilled to get the hearing aid back. This particular pair was very expensive.

 

 

 

Jeanine was walking to her car on a cold snowy day in St. Paul and fell. When she got up and shook off her bare hands, she shook off more than the snow.

It was a very quick we recovery. We found the ring within minutes. Jeanine was very happy to get the ring back on her finger!

Dana had just finished a lot of gardening in her yard, when she noticed that her gold Claddagh ring was no longer on her finger.  She and her husband searched all over the big yard, but they couldn’t find it and didn’t have any idea where it could have been lost.  Dana’s ring fit her well and she had never lost it before.

The only part of the day that was unusual was when Dana tripped over a rock and fell into some bushes, so that is where Dana’s husband and I began the search.  We hit that area hard, but got no hits.  Next, we searched around the areas where Dana was pulling weeds and, again, got no hits.

Because we had no luck in the bushes and where the weeds were pulled, we decided to switch gears and search the grass.  After about a half hour of searching the grass, I got a strong signal that sounded really good.  It was the Claddagh ring hidden in the grass!

It’s really amazing how easily a gold ring can hide in grass.  You couldn’t see this ring even if you were on your hands and knees looking right at the spot where it lay.

Dana couldn’t be there to see the ring found, but her husband said that she’d be very happy to get it back.

Bryan boated to an island on a lake in Hudson, WI for a fun day with friends and ended losing one of his prized possessions: his heirloom wedding band!

Bryan was standing on the shore of the island while throwing a football to one of his friends who was 20 feet away from him in the water when he suddenly noticed that his ring was gone. Everyone searched the water and dry sand, but the ring was nowhere to be found.

Three days later and after searching the internet for someone that looks for lost rings, Bryan sent me an email.  I explained to him that the sooner I started searching for the ring, the better chance we had of finding it.  Bryan had to work the following day, so I contacted a fellow Ring Finder who had a boat and we headed out to search for the ring the following morning.  We searched for about 3 hours and removed a lot of pull tabs, coins and aluminum can pieces, but we weren’t able to get our metal detectors over the ring.  The ride back to the boat launch was a long one.

I called Bryan that afternoon and let him know about the heavy amounts of trash at the site and that, in order to find the ring, we had to have him present.  Bryan was able to meet us the following afternoon and the three us boated back to the island.

Bryan showed us right where he was standing when he was throwing the football and that was the key to our success.  Within three minutes of searching, I had Bryan’s ring in my scoop!  Bryan was overjoyed and we all had a great ride back to the boat launch.

Gene was working in his garden and carrying new plants to it from the garage.  Shortly after he finished with the garden, he noticed that his large gold and diamond ring was not on his finger.  His normal habit was to put the ring in his pocket, but the ring could have somehow fallen off his finger while he was working or it could have been lost in the garden or lost somewhere else soon after Gene finished working in the garden.  Gene wondered about this for four years.

Because he was planning to do some landscape changes, Gene decided to contact The Ring Finders to make sure his ring was not somewhere in his back yard.  I got the call from Gene and we decided do the hunt a couples of days later.

We both figured the most likely spot was the garden, so we started there.  After about 45 minutes of digging small aluminum items and a penny while covering the garden well, we moved on to the grass.  I hunted the grass covering all of the areas where Gene walked that day to and from the garden.  I dug a dime, a penny and some more aluminum items; and when we were both starting to think the ring wasn’t there, I got a strong signal 2 inches down.

I dug a little bit of the grass and dirt away and saw the unmistakable glimmer of gold!  The ring was lying flat and I had barely uncovered it.  I said to Gene ‘Look at this!’, but he wasn’t thinking it was the ring.  So I said ‘I’m not digging it.  You dig it, it’s your ring.’  That started to make Gene a believer and he squatted down to take a peak and dug his ring out of the ground four years after losing it!