Canmore Gold Found
While visiting from the UK a friend lost three rings on the drive way. Two were found but the last was elusive. Watch the video for the whole story. Sometimes you have to go old school.
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High River Gold
Mom was visiting from out of town and lost her ring while playing with her grandson in a High River park. It happened between snows and it disappeared while throwing pine cones. Watch the video below for the full story,
2 Rings Lost, Wedding Band and Engagement Ring, in the Sand, Found and Returned Garden City SC
On 7/20/25 just before 11:30 am, I got a text message saying, “Hi Jim, my name is Eric. My family is staying in Garden City beach and I am reaching out to you for help because I lost my wife’s engagement ring and wedding band on the beach this morning. Please let me know if you are able to help. « I called the number attached to the text and talked to Eric. I found out the rings were lost in the dry sand and told him I’d be there in about an hour. I also ask him to text me the address. Once I plugged the address in the GPS, I text him letting him know I was on my way with my ETA.
When I arrived, it took me a few minutes to park and then make my way out to the beach. Eric saw me and waved, so I made my way over to their spot. Eric explained that his wife had taken her rings off and put them on top of a bag. Eric moved the bag, along with some other items and the rings disappeared into the sand. He told me both rings were yellow gold. So I turned my detector on and knew I was looking for numbers on the detector in the 11 to 13 range. I checked where the bags were originally and its final resting place with no luck. I moved a couple of chairs under their umbrella and swung the coil. The first signal I got was an 11, so I knew I had the wedding band. I reached a little farther under the umbrella and got a 13, the engagement ring. I took a scoop of sand for the wedding band and then scooped up the engagement ring. I gently shook out the scoop and both rings were in the bottom of the scoop. Unfortunately, Eric’s wife, Liz was up in the room taking care of their 1 ½ year old. Day 1 of their vacation came to a happy ending.
Eric – Thank you so much for contacting me to help find your wife’s lost rings.
Jim
Very Small Gold Earring Lost In Grass South Portland, Maine, Found With A Metal Detector
On Friday, July 18th, Gary Hill and I were returning from Short Sands Beach York Maine, in York Beach, Maine. We had a successful recovery, after Gary had recovered a lost pendant. As we were approaching the Town of Wells, Maine, my phone rang. The caller identified herself as Sarah. Sarah told me that she was at Scratch Baking Co., in South Portland, Maine and she had just lost a very small gold earring. As she and her daughter, Eliza were eating lunch, outside on a bench, she had felt and seen the gold earring, become entangled in Eliza’s hair. As Sarah went to grab the earring, from Eliza’s hair, Eliza spun away and the earring fell into the grass and acorn shells. They had been searching for the earring, for a half hour and just couldn’t find it. She asked if I could help her. I told her Gary and I could be there in approximately 45 minutes, as we were still on Rt 1, in Wells, Maine. Sarah and Eliza would continue to search for the earring, as Gary and I made our way north, to South Portland Maine and Scratch Baking Co…
Once Gary and I arrived we saw Sarah and Eliza sitting on the beach, under the tree. They told us they still hadn’t found the earring. Gary had brought his 8” sniper coil, as this would work best for extremely small gold items. We decided that Gary would start grid searching, with the Minelab Manticore and 8” sniper coil. I would visually search and run my pinpointer through the grass, hoping to get lucky. After approximately 20-30 minutes, the earring still wasn’t found. Just amazing how these things disappear from sight. Gary and I decided to switch roles. I would grid search vertically, where Gary had searched horizontally, to the street. Gary would now visually search and man the pinpointer. After about 5 minutes, I received a repeatable target of 06 – 07, on the VDI screen and the sweet sounding low tone of gold. I still couldn’t see the target but could definitely hear the target. I reached down and moved the grass and still couldn’t see the target. I then moved a few pieces of broken acorn shells and staring back at me was an extremely small gold earring. I looked over at Sarah and Eliza and said “I found it”. Sarah jumped right up and came towards me, saying “Did you really? Thank you so much”. This earring would not have been found by just visually searching. How did the earring end up under the broken acorn shells? We may never know for sure but most likely the shells ended up on top of the earring during the initial search, by Sarah and Eliza. As they were walking, in the area and running their fingers through the grass, they may have inadvertently moved the shells, onto the earring. Either way, Sarah now had her gold earring back and was very happy with that. Sarah and Eliza are from Massachusetts and had been in the area, when they stopped at Scratch Baking, for lunch. The lunch turned out much longer than they had planned and they were very excited to be getting back on the road, to drive home. That is one reason, why there are so few photos. We didn’t want to hold them up any longer than necessary. Gary and I were also happy to be heading home as we had now been on the road, searching for lost items, for 6 1/2 hours. After two successful recoveries today , it was time to go home, get something to eat and reflect on our day. We absolutely love doing this for others and have the best job in the world.
White gold band lost in 15 feet of water found at sheep’s pond Brewster ma
Yesterday evening while away on a weekend trip to Maine I received a call from Leo who was playing catch with his son in deeper waters at sheep’s pond in Brewster Massachusetts when his ring fell off when the ball hit his hand. He was trying to dive down with a borrowed mask but had no luck. A woman at the beach said there’s a man who frequently visits the pond and helps folks find lost items so he searched on google and came across my name on ring finders. I told him I’d be back Sunday afternoon and would head there after I returned home. Shortly after arriving there I entered the water and followed him out to where he felt it come off and started the dive it only took a couple minutes to get the signal for his ring and after recovering it and still on the bottom I gave him a thumbs up and he dove down to get it
Ring Found In Long Lake, Portage, MI
Kara and Will were spending some vacation time on the sandbar in Long Lake. Married just 9 months ago and now he has lost his wedding ring. They were playing in only about 2 ft of water when his ring came off. I arrived and we loaded up in the pontoon boat and headed out to the sandbar. Kara, Will and 4 other friends joined us for the hunt. I had Will mark off a square section in the area with some PVC poles and he did an excellent job because I found the ring in about 15 minutes right in the middle of his square. I got a good signal, looked down in the water and saw the ring laying on the bottom-that is almost too easy. I signaled the find and the pontoon boat erupted in hoops and hollers. What a way to brighten your day!
Oura Ring Lost in Sand at Playa Del Rey Beach…Found and Happily Returned.
If you lost your ring or other important item, please call right away because time will work against a successful recovery. Steve Smith: 310-953-5268
Madison called on 4th of July night after losing her Oura ring. I figured the beach would be full of people shooting off their fireworks, so I asked if we could do the search the next morning.
I got there a little before Madison, and could see that the beach had not been cleaned. She took me out to the area, and proceeded to take out her phone and look around. I asked if the ring had a find my ring feature, which she said it did. She gave me an area, and when I swung my detector, I got a signal, dug, and had her ring. That app put her right on top of it; AMAZING! I was able to give it to her, which made her day.
Car Key Lost in Ivy in Inglewood…Found and Returned
If you have lost something call right away, the chances of a recovery diminish with each passing hour. Steve Smith: 310-953-5268
Ebrahim called explaining how he had lost his car key in the ivy at his apartment complex. We arranged to meet the next day knowing that if he was unable to find it, it wasn’t likely to be found by someone not knowing it was there.
When I got there Ebrahim took me over to the site of the loss, and he told me how it occured. It happened on the stairs up to his apartment, and the emergency key that was in his fob bounced out when it hit the step after being dropped. It then went into the ivy below. He found the fob, but was unable to find the key. I could see where he had been searching, and went over the area myself with the detector. I then had to start working out from his search area, and about 12 inches from where he had been searching I found his key. Ebrahim came over, and was relieved to have it back.
Lost wedding band Belleau Lake.
This morning, I met Mike down at the shoreline of Belleau Lake in Wakefield NH, Armed with my metal detector and my goggles, we did a systematic sweep of the sandy bottom. After about ten minutes of carefully searching, there it was, glinting like the hidden treasure it was under some leaves, in between two rocks.
Mike’s reaction: absolute disbelief, followed by a grin from ear to ear. When you see someone get that piece of their life back, it really makes your day.
Wedding band recovered at Asbury Park
Got a text from Victor asking for help in finding 2 lost rin
gs in Asbury. He had already driven home so he gave me the best information he could about where the rings might be. He had put them in the pouch on his beach chair and forgot about them. He thinks they fell out when he folded the chair to leave the beach. I went down and searched the area for acouple of hours with no luck. While down there a fellow detectorists I now came up and we were talking and I explained what I was looking for. I called it a night with no luck. While I was home the other guy called me and told me he found 1 of the rings. I got in my car and drove back to the beach to meet him. He only found the 1. It was no where near where I had searched before. I got up early the next morning and started searching the new area. About an hour into the search I found Victor’s wedding band. I texted him the good news and he came back to Asbury to retrieve his rings. Another happy ending for all. 