Got a call about a very sentimental ring lost in the southern part of the upper peninsula. Little over 2 hr drive and had some 5-6 ft waves and high winds to battle with. The owner had a very detailed description of where and how the ring was lost and was able to locate the ring within 30 mins or so. Shipped back to a very happy owner who was from out of state. Great experience, and happy customer. 
Received a call earlier on Sunday morning for a ring lost near a dock. Set up a time and arrived within a couple hours and spent roughly an hour with some dock moving and raking and was able to recover the missing wedding band. Owner was grateful and very happy I was able to help. Thank you again! 
I found this titanium and rose gold ring for Raymond in his driveway. I had searched the driveway, as well as the surrounding area, but didn’t go out far enough. It had came off his finger when he was brushing saw dust off his pants. He said that he heard it bounce twice, but he had no luck trying to find it on his own using a friend’s metal detector. He searched on the internet and found the ring finders and texted me. It took me two days to find it, but I finally got it. I learned a valuable lesson in those two days. You can’t keep searching over the same area, you have to go out farther than you think it is. I was happy to have found Raymond’s ring for him, and I also felt bad for making his kids wait for over 16 hours at their house while I meandered around the yard digging holes. LOL
Shortly before 3 pm on Saturday, May 18th, I received a call from Ashlee asking if I could help find her mother, Alison’s ring that had been given to her by her grandmother years ago. Ashlee said that the ring had been dropped from their elevated dock into the ICW. I knew the tide was coming in but wasn’t sure of when high tide would be. Ashlee said she had been under the dock doing a reach and feel search and the water was about waist deep. I told her I was just finishing up another search and I was on my way.
It took me about 20 minutes to arrive and I met Alison, her granddaughter, and Ashlee in the driveway. As we walked around back, Alison described her ring and showed me the location where the ring fell through. I asked if it could have gotten stuck in the planks and was told the granddaughter heard a “plunk.” I got a few more details and walked down some stairs into the water. This was a perfect search scenario, water was warm, soft sand bottom, no waves and not above my knees. Walked out to the location, swung the detector twice and got a solid 12 (perfect number on the Nox 800 for Platinum). Took a scoop of sand and as I pulled it out of the water, I saw Allison’s beautiful ring sticking out of the sand. As I’m walking up the stairs, I hollered at Allison saying, “where you at?” She said something like, “you find it?” I held it up for her to see. She was so grateful she had her ring back. What a thrill for me to be holding a beautiful ring with 100 years of history. I found out that Alison was going to pass the ring down to her granddaughter but not for many many years. Ashlee told me that her great grandmother had lived in England with her husband (Ken and Lillian Scott) and that’s where the ring came from.
Ashlee – thank you for trusting me to help find your mother’s ring.
Alison – so glad I got to meet you and return your lost treasure.
Jim
5/18/24
I got a call a couple days ago from a lady in Colorado. Her son and daughter in law live in Vermont. A year and a half ago her husband was visiting Vermont helping to build an office in the “kids” barn, when he realized his wedding ring had fallen off. He had been working with insulation, hanging drywall, painting boards, etc.
It was a beautiful, engraved ring that he had worn for 40 years. They searched and after leaving, the son went through everything with no luck.
So, I went over today to do a search between the house and barn. Literally 2 minutes into the search, got a great signal, dug into the grass a little with my finger, and there it was. Still in perfect condition!
I love these searches !!
Evan called me asking if I could help find a condo key that was lost along the beach access path from the condo to the beach. I got the address and was on my way. I arrived about 20 minutes later and met Evan, his wife Taryn and their son Jagger. The story goes that Jagger was walking along the path with the ‘only’ Condo key on top of a towel, a dog barked, Jagger twisted around, and the key went flying. I had my Nox 800 and knew the VDI (visual display indicator) would ring up around a 19-21. I searched down the path, then both sides with heavy undergrowth with no luck. After roughly 45 minutes I called it. I was exhausted from another ocean search and had no energy.
This morning, I text Evan saying I was coming back to give the key another shot. I also said that he didn’t have to be out there, that I’d let him know either way. When I got there, I concentrated my search on the right side of the path and further out in the undergrowth. After Taryn telling me what happened and running the scenario through my head all night, it only made sense the key would be on the right side. Things are never as they seem! After a bit of searching on the right, I moved to the left side. After about 5 minutes, I hit the 19 VDI I was looking for. Used my pin pointer and nailed the key buried along the edge of the path in the sand. I had noticed that Taryn was sitting on the balcony and pointed up at her. She yelled down, “Did you find it?” I held the key up and she disappeared into the house on her way down. A great day, Jagger was out of the doghouse, Evan or Taryn didn’t have to stay in the condo while the rest of the family went to the beach or out for the day.
Evan and Taryn – Thank you for trusting me to help find your key. Have a great rest of your vacation and a safe journey back home.
Jim
It was a cold snowy day in February 2022 when I was asked to search for a Lost Ring following some landscaping and pruning. The 2 Hour Dr. was snowy and it was cold outside when I arrived, but the snow had stopped. After meeting this nice couple and hearing their story, I first search briefly where he had been doing some pruning and piling the trimmings. Next, I asked to see where he had placed all of the prunings which happened to be in a large rubbish can in a shed. I slowly pulled out the material and scanned it first visually and was able to find the ring amongst the trimmings , needless to say all were happy and a very nice reward was received for the hunt. I was very pleased to be able to help reunite this Ring and its story with the owners.
Sydney along with her family and friends were visiting here in town. They were having a beach party on Mission Bay to celebrate a friend’s upcoming wedding. Sydney went out into the bay, and when she returned to the sand, shook the water off her hands, and discovered in horror that her engagement ring was also flung off her finger and into the dry sand. Everyone tried to help « finger rake » through the sand to recover the ring, but, no luck. A friend of their’s found TheRingFinders.com and my contact info. I dropped what I was doing, gathered my gear and my wife and headed down to the bay to help. After finding parking a bit away, we walked to the bay boardwalk and beach. Looking down the beach, we could see a white canopy and many people gathered. That looks like the place and it was confirmed after a short text to Sydney. After introductions and the story on how and where the ring was lost, I started my grid of about a 15′ X 15′ box they scraped into the sand and felt was the likely search area. I started at one edge and on the first pass came up with 3 crusty zinc cents, return pass produced just a token and then on the third pass, the sound I was waiting for, a nice engagement ring in the scoop. Cheers all around and a nice hug for me! A pleasure to meet you all and thank you for the reward.
The Bay Area Ring Finders Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP 925-580-2590
The story behind this recovery in some ways is very similar to that which I perform on a somewhat routine basis. However, In some ways this was much different and took much more patience and thought.
At a little past 11am on the 10th of May, I was out metal detecting with my soon to be 5 year old son. We had just pulled out our machines a Vanquish 540 (my sons) and my equinox to start a little park hunt. He had dug his first target, a rusty nail. I was just about to put my headphones on when I received a text message and then, a voice message. It was a call for help stating that the previous Saturday there had been a home invasion where the thief took jewelry and ran, dropping the jewelry as the alarm went off. They had recovered some of the jewelry from their yard but requested that I come help to locate any and all of the fallen jewelry I could. And with that, we packed up our gear and headed 30 minutes south to assist.
In was now midday and getting warm when we arrived at the residence, a large and beautiful home on a hillside. The owners met with us and thanked us for such a quick response. They showed us the rear full height window that had been smashed and where some of the stolen jewelry had been recovered leading to the fence in the back of the large backyard. The task was to search the opposing side of the fence which was a large parcel of open space on a hillside. I was not sure if it had been a blessing or a curse, but only a day or two prior the city had mowed a 50 foot swath of defensible space right up to the fence line. The search was now on!
It did not take long to get my first hit, a silver cuff-link, and my next, a gold cuff-link. And then, a very colorful sandal pendant with multiple gemstones. Most of the pieces were being recovered at the corner of the property line which was likely to be the location the thief jumped the fence. I called this my « anchor point ». 7 pieces of jewelry were recovered from this area. I searched the area until no other pieces or targets (there was a lot of trash there too) could be found. I then established a grid and worked outward from my anchor. Prior to the search the homeowner had mentioned a gold bangle bracelet encrusted with gemstones that had been visible prior to the weed abatement operation. As I spread out and expanded my grid, that was the next piece I recovered buried in the recently mowed weeds. It was slightly damaged and quite a bit away from the spot it had been previously seen. My guess was it had fallen prey to the mower, but I used a landscaping flag to mark the location it had been found and retrieved the beautiful piece.
All of this happened within the first 30 minutes of our busy search, and then… nothing!!! The next 30 minutes of grid search only revealed trash and not much of that either. And then, bang!!! A beautiful yellow gold and diamond encrusted earring. A sight for sore eyes and our first new lead in the direction that the thief may have went. Again, the piece was marked with a flag and recovered.
For the next hour, I worked the grid, expanded the grid, worked the grid, expanded the grid, but no new pieces could be located and the trail had gone cold. It was now two hours of searching in the fully exposed sun with no new direction and seemingly acres of open space covered in tall dry grass. The operation was shut down.
In all, we managed to recover and flag 9 pieces of jewelry, some of which were sure to be very valuable. The beautiful bangle bracelet turned out to be very sentimental, a wedding gift from the brides mother-in-law on her wedding day and was the highlight of our operation. Our client seemed to be very thankful for our efforts and we had indeed MADE THE RECOVERY!!!
8 of 9 Pieces recovered from the thief’s escape route.
The beautiful gold bangle bracelet with gemstones.
1 of 9 pieces recovered from the open space field.
The last and furthest piece located!
All smiles for a great recovery!
The Bay Area Ring Finders Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP 925-580-2590
I received a call regarding a lost wedding ring that occurred while playing volleyball. The problem was that the volleyball court was mobile, encompassing the area of nearly a football field. Worse, I was directed to where it was thought they had been playing. It was not in that area but it was found!
The owner was very happy as seen in the photo.
