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LOST 14K GOLD UNIVERSITY RING – FOUND ROUNHILL VA.

  • from Leesburg (Virginia, United States)
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1932 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND RING RECOVERED – received a call from a customer in Roundhill, Virginia, who lost a 1932 class ring on his property. The ring was his father‘s and he would wear it occasionally,  for sentimental reasons. Unfortunately it fell off while raking leaves on his large property two days ago. Probably came off when he took his gloves off. Short drive to get to his location, , Bob gave me layout of the property and some details, and within 45 minutes I located his father‘s ring. Bob is 78 years old and was fighting back the tears of joy to have his father‘s ring back in his hands!!

 

Happy Customer  Happy Hunting

 

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LEESBURG VA LOST RING – CAN YOU FIND MY RING?

  • from Leesburg (Virginia, United States)
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ADORABLE CUSTOMER – Mr. Ray, would you come metal detect my yard, was the soft little cute voice I heard behind me.
I turned around and it was my neighbor‘s daughter and I said do you want me to check your yard, why?
Even at six years old, she pays attention to what I do as a hobby and wanted me to come find the ring 💍 that she just got today and lost it in the yard already.. her mom said her little heart was broken…… »Together » we found in in the grass near her spider swing!
So cute 🥰. I think we now have a future metal detectorist in our midst!
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WEDDING RING RETURNED – Roundhill VA.

  • from Leesburg (Virginia, United States)
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VOLLEY BALL FUN – It only took about six months, but this customer finally reached out to me after finding me on ChatGPT of all things! Went out to his location in Roundhill, Virginia, and he explained to me that he was playing volleyball with his son when the ring flew out of his hand last year. They searched for hours, even after borrowing a metal detector, they couldn’t find it.
Quick start and quick ending: after about 30 seconds with the detector, his ring was found!
Very happy man and I know his wife was thrilled to see the ring back on his finger.
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PS… I didn’t need to shovel! The ring still was about a quarter of an inch below the surface! Pending face photo.
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14K RING RIVER RECOVERY – Cacapon River, WV.

  • from Leesburg (Virginia, United States)
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The Cacapon River is one of West Virginia’s highest quality rivers. Protected by woodlands and peaceful fields, its waters are not polluted by industry, development or mining.
I received a call from a customer who was kayaking with his son on the Cacapon River. While going through an area with some mild rapids, the kayak flipped over, and everything went overboard. Obviously focusing on his son to ensure everyone was safe, he then realized his ring had come off his finger. He searched in the current for several hours but was unable to locate the ring.
We agreed on a date/time and after an hour-and-a-half excursion, I arrived deep back in the woods of WV. At first I was slightly concerned about the rapids, but after a little bit of foot dancing in the river to ensure I didn’t get washed away, I was able to get into the area I wanted to search. I had to hold the detector with both hands due to the current but was able to get a high 80s on my XP Deus II. I set the detector on a boulder to my left, put my snorkel mask on, then dunked my face into the cold water rapids. Like a gleaming beacon, I saw the  14 karat yellow gold ring, staring up at me through the water, in between two large rocks.
Happy customer. 😊 Happy Hunting
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RED DIRT SILVER RING RECOVERY – CULPEPER VA

  • from Leesburg (Virginia, United States)
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I received a call from Nadine in Culpeper, Virginia.… (Yes, red dirt territory). Ms. Brackman is an environmental scientist with a passion for history, adores Dalmatians (massive Dalmatian figurine collection), and writes books. She contacted me because she lost a sentimental silver ring with a Malachite stone while tossing the ball to her dogs in her backyard. Girded for a quick 30 minutes, I found the ring pretty quickly; Nadine was ecstatic to have her cherished ring back on her finger!

 

 

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Turuo, MA iPhone Hidden by Rain Driven Sand Found By Richard Browne and Returned

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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September 14, 2026

It was a balmy Saturday night, clear enough to star gaze, but unfortunately loose a cell phone in the sand. Then the rain came like it hasn’t in several years so said the weather man. No searching or raking the area the “FIND-ME” said the phone was in gave up the lost phone. Take note here that the Ping mark for a lost phone is generally good for locating within about a 30 foot radius the rest is up to the owner to find it. Here again the party did not have the correct gear to really search the area for the lost phone. Someone came up with the idea of a metal detectorist that could help out.

When I got the call I was not at home to receive it and driving so I did not read or answer a text right away. At home a few text with a third party as Ari did not have her phone. To make things harder, Ari had left the Cape and was in Boston. Well, I had a ping mark on a screen shot of the area, but it was getting late and the beach was over an hour away, depending on traffic. I would be on the beach before noon.

At 11AM I was on the site. I went to the area of the ping mark. To my dismay there were parallel grid marks, someone had already been there. Either the phone had been found or it was not in the area that had been searched. I increased the to about a 40 foot radius. After a few passes bingo there was a big signal and a gentle push in the sand and there was the Apple iPhone. Mission accomplished. Well almost, I had to return the phone.

I texted the contact’s phone number, hoping Ari was still with her friend. Guess what…the phone I had just found started ringing, but it was locked and I could not answer the call. Back at my car a contact was made as was an arrangement for the phone to be picked up at my home. Where Photos were taken and more of how the phone’s loss took place. I am not sure here, but I believe Ari had sketched the Thank You card and added on the reverse side a heart felt Thank You. I know I have helped many in the same way and hope to keep up the trend for many years to come. A note to me is a meaningful gift that I can revisit time after time. Thank you.

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Twice Lost Wedding Band in Sandwich, MA Found and Returned by Richard Browne

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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September 12, 2026

53 weeks ago another RingFinder – Brian T. had the experience of searching for, finding, and returning John’s wedding band. This year I had the experience and both John and I hope no RingFinder will need to be called to the beach to search for John’s lost wedding band in the future.

This year it was difficult to get John the help he needed. He had tried to get Brian T. to return, but Brian was previously engaged. Leighton H. was out of town at a Treasure Show. Luke B. was working. That left me, I was the only RingFinder in the area that could break away in time to help John and I did.

It seams like getting the time of loss and height of tide is getting difficult to equate “waist deep” to the loss of a ring in the waters of Cape Cod Bay. John had done as I asked and spread a few coins in the area he had lost his wedding band. I started to find the coins almost immediately, this should be easy. No it was not. I had gridded both parallel and perpendicular to the water’s edge without success in finding John’s ring. But I had found all the coins John had spread “in the area” his ring slipped from his finger.

I had enlarged the area both ways on the beach and it would be very unlikely I would have “missed” the ring. Next I started a diagonal pattern. I started low to high on the beach and when the first half of the area had been searched, I started on the second half and bout ¾ of the way thru the triangle I went a bit further up the slope by about 5 feet, made a turn to go back down and there it was, the signal that I had been waiting for about 2 hours. I took one shallow scoop in the sand and John’s ring was now in my scoop, waiting for John to take it out.

John knew the routine from last year’s experience. I took the ring’s picture then one of John and the ring for the Book of Smiles. A book not too many people want to be in let alone twice for the same reason at the same beach but gladly both times had the same outcome.

Until next Labor Day…stay well, buy and wear a silicon band that will keep your wedding band on your finger at the beach or Davy Jones just might outsmart the next RingFinder. It is doubtful, but it could happen.

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West Dennis Beach Takes and Gives Back Mother’s Wedding Ring Set

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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September 11, 2026

While I was outside doing some needed yard work a Text Message was left on my phone.

“I am on the west Dennis beach and I just lost my ring. It was mom’s wedding/engagement ring. She passed away in April. We are on vacation and are supposed to head back tomorrow.”

I knew I had to go and find this ring, a ring her mother wore for 66 years, ASAP.

I was on the beach about 45 minutes after calling Kristen. At the beach the necessary information was obtained. My bad was in thinking the tied was on the rise, it was really on the way out. To add to my problem was the locations I was given. At first they were to the west of the chair on the beach and out, then it moved to the east of the chair and closer in. Had the tide was on the rise I would have to search further out to be at the point Kristen was when she lost the ring. That is the way it went for about two hours. John had to leave and take their dog home. Kristen stayed and told me she thought I should be more to the west but closer in…the search went on and the sunset told me I should think about coming back in the morning’s low tide.

Kristen was almost off the beach and I was going to be very close behind. That’s when I heard the sound I was searching for: the low sharp tone of gold. Yes, it was the diamond white gold ring I had been searching for. Even before leaving the ankle deep water (it was now low tide) I shouted out “Kristen”. In hopes I had found her ring she sprinted to me, saw the ring in my scoop. WOW, another grateful person. I love it when I can return an item before a person had to sleep on the tragedy overnight.

In the parking lot Kristen told me about the fun in the surf and on the sand of West Dennis Beach since her early childhood. Many of the memories of those years with her parents had brought her back to the very area of the beach we were on.

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Claddagh Wedding Ring Lost, Found, Returned Dennis, MA by Richard Browne

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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September 10, 2026

Summer was ending soon and grand-kids would be off to school for the day and not playing on the beach. For one of the last days of summer fun Jack would take his ATV and the group out to the low tide line on Cape Cod Bay. This afternoon the children would not be thinking of school or be alone in the water, Jack would be right in there with them. A backward splash and a hand thrust was just enough with the cool water to rip his wedding ring, a Claddagh, with an emerald off into the water’s sandy bottom.

Days of searching with no success, it would be fate that would bring help. Sandra, Jack’s wife of 56 years was attending a physical therapy session and mentioned the loss to the PT trainer. The trainer knew of TheRingFinders and gave Sandra the information. Sandra called me and I would be on my way, but not until two hours before low tide.

I had been told were to park and that Jack would be right over. Well here he came in his ATV to give me a ride out about a quarter of a mile to the site of the loss. To cut to the chase; I had Jack “mark the sand”, with tire tracks, where he thought he had lost the ring. After almost two hours of searching, the marked areas in the sand as I had found just one quarter. It was time to mentally rethink about the information I had been given. The marked areas that I had made in the sand would not have been waist deep in water until hours after the time of the loss. And if that was the case Jack would have had to go through much deeper water with the grand-kids on the way back to the ATV. My thought was that I had to search the deeper gullies, not the gentle sloping sand that had been marked.

The next 5 minutes of searching passed and I had found a pull tab and a fishing weight. The lower area was proving that I might be on the correct track. Another quick chat with Jack and a new area to search was outlined. Jack went off to define still another possible area to search and I put my detector’s headphones on and started to swing. On the second stroke I heard a promising signal that sure enough was caused by Jack’s Claddagh ring. We had been standing right on the ring while making our next plan of searching.

An emotional couple of minutes for Jack to recoup from putting his wedding ring back where it belonged and we were on the ATV heading off the sand flats of Cape Cod Bay. Now I was awfully glad we did not have to walk the quarter mile back to the parking lot. However, it was time enough for Jack to give me a quick history lesson on the area going back into the early 1800s. At the parking lot, I wished we had another mile or two for story telling. But a pending meeting precluded that. The only thing left was to have a short meeting with Sandra to make sure she would thank the PT Therapist for passing my information on to her.

Sometimes it seams like an impossible task to drive many miles to search hundreds of square yards, with a coil of 10 or 15 inches in diameter and to put the coil over a one inch diameter “lost” ring. And this day was one of those days when all seams almost impossible, but it did happen. I only wish it could happen every time and end with a wonderful picture for the Book of Smiles.

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Lost Pink with Butterfly Toddler Tracker Bracelet…FOUND!!!

  • from O‘ahu (Hawaii, United States)
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I found this Pink Butterfly Toddler Tracker Bracelet in the dry sand at Aulani Beach two weekends ago and had it lying on my desk.  So the Pink Butterfly Toddler Tracker Air tag started buzzing. I picked it up and my iphone screen activated and asked to move the tag closer to the top edge. It said it was lost and please contact a gmail email address. I reached out and sure enough Shoshana said she had lost it at Aulani a few weeks ago.  Got the attached pic today confirming return.  Its great to know these trackers can be returned along with many eRings.  Aloha to Shoshana!

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