Yesterday I found a platinum wedding band for Tim, who lost it while pulling weeds in his garden and moving the weeds and brush to a burn pile
He said he never had the band off in 22 years of marriage and his anniversary is on Friday. So he got it back just in time.
Contact me for all your metal detecting and recovery needs. My name is Mike McInroe…Central Florida Ring Finder at 321-363-6029. On land, in the water, the grass, sand, in cars, in homes…rings, jewelry, keys, phones, property markers and more.
I received a text from Daniel asking if I could help him find a ring that « ended up in a retention pond behind his apartment building » in the Baldwin Park Orlando area. Apparently this happened 4 months earlier and Daniel said he was waiting for the water in the pond to recede before trying to find someone to help retrieve his lost engagement ring. I asked a number of questions and soon found out that Daniel’s wife had actually thrown her own diamond engagement ring. Daniel assured me that he had a fairly good idea as to where the lost engagement ring landed so I gathered my gear and headed his way. After I arrived I decided to cover the grassy area between the sidewalk and the waters edge and only came up with some aluminum pieces so I then donned my wet suit and grabbed my trusty waterproof Garrett AT Max metal detector along with my top of the line Xtreme scoop, my floating sifter and started grid searching in and out of the water. It only took 15 minutes to get that sweet gold signal and when I dumped my scoop contents onto the floating sifter and used my pin pointer to locate the target…there buried in the grass and silt was Daniel’s wife’s lost engagement ring. Daniel was one very very happy husband! Even though they have only been married for three years he assured me they are working on getting along better and finding her ring would go a long way in mending their relationship!
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I received a call from Jake explaining how he had lost his gold wedding ring while shooting some hoops the day before. He told me he went up for a jump shot and felt the ring come off. He didn’t see it but heard a sound of the ring hitting something and then it was gone. After searching all over without any luck, he went to the internet for help and found The Ring Finders. Jake had told me that he and his wife Deanna had recently celebrated their 2 year anniversary so I meet him the same day so we could get this ring back on his finger. We went over everything that happened the day before and the search began. After around 15 minutes, a loud signal coming in at 36 on my Equinox 900 told me I was about to see a smile. The ring was hiding in a patch of dead grass and blended in making it nearly impossible to see. So happy to help return this ring where it belongs.
We got a call this morning on a lost white gold wedding band lost doing some roadwork clearing. Lost while taking off gloves and run over a few times with his bobcat. The Equinox hit on it reading a 17.
Received a call from a man in Naperville, Illinois.
Lost his 22k Gold Wedding band while playing cricket in a field last night.
He purchased a metal detector but did not have any success.
After gridding out 4 corners in the field, I got lucky and started in the right corner, found it in about 10 minutes.
This property pin recovery actually started last December. Deanna had contacted me to find three pins, in particular and possibly a fourth, on her York, Maine property. Her neighbors had recently sold their home and Deanna would just like to find the pins, dividing the properties. Deanna has lived at her current home for 15 years and has the most recent survey prints, from just before she bought her home, 15 years earlier. Deanna told me that she herself had pulled one of the pins, out of the ground, on her property because it was in the way of her mowing. Thankfully, that pin is not included in our current search. She now regrets that decision. There were two pins, in particular, Deanna would really like us to find and last December, with snow on the ground, Gary Hill and I did just that. We found the two property pins, without much trouble at all and a third pin, in the front of her house. The fourth pin however was behind her neighbors home in an area that the hay and bamboo was very thick and tall. The area was also very wet and had frozen, unlike the drier soil in the field itself. We had a difficult time swinging our detectors properly and with that area of the property already frozen, we decided to come back in the spring, when the ground would be thawed and the tall hay would be matted down, from the winters snow,
So, When I received a call from Michele to help find her bracelet, in York Harbor, Maine, I decided to give Deanna a call. Deanna was all for me returning and trying to find the fourth property pin, behind her neighbors home. After a successful recovery of Michele’s bracelet, I drove the 4.50 miles to Deanna’s house. The snow was gone, ground thawed and hay had been matted down, to a more manageable height. The property pin I was searching for would be exactly 85’, from property pin #3 Gary and I had found a little over 4 months ago. With my 300’ tape measure, I secured one end to Pin #3 and measured out the 85’. As you all know I am not a licensed surveyor and this pin had a degree of angle from pin #3 and I don’t have the tools to measure that angle exactly. I knew I could get close to it, but not exact. All this would mean is that my angle, over 85’ may put me off 5 or 10 feet from where the actual pin is. No prowl as I would just search the entire 10 feet or so of the area. Once I had the 85 feet measured out, I started to search. I received a strong ferrous target but it ended up being a piece of farm equipment. Another strong ferrous target turned out to be a very old and large square nail. Target #3 was something large. As I dug it up, it turned out to be a large chunk of concrete, WITH A METAL PIPE in it. This had to be the property marker. It was EXACTLY 85’ from pin #3. I also remembered from the property survey, there was at least one other pin that said “CONC. BND”. Concrete boundary? It appeared the pipe, running through the concrete and the concrete itself had broken. Just to be safe, I searched more area around the concrete pipe but nothing els was found. It had to be the pin, at exactly 85’. I took some photos and sent them to Deanna. Her response made perfect sense. She replied, “Likely got hit by the tractor mowing the field at some point. Great to have them all located, thank you!” Great point. The tractors had been cutting the hay in the field, for decades, if not longer. I am only guessing but because the ground is very wet, in that area, the property pin was placed in concrete, to keep it standing upright, until a tractor hit it anyways.
So I had a busy morning, with it starting in York Harbour, finding a Sterling Silver and Gold Bracelet, in a burn pit and ending in York,Maine, just 4-5 miles away with property pin #4, being found. Both Michele and Deanna were happy, as was I. We have the greatest job in the world. I love my job.
As a side note, We can help you locate your property pins BUT I am not a licensed surveyor. I am just a metal detectorist trying to help others out. I informed Deanna and all my clients that I may find their property pins but I cannot guarantee that the pin is in the correct location. I have no way of knowing if the pin has actually been moved, in the past, or not. Only a licensed surveyor can guarantee the pins are in the correct spot.
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Derrick texted me on Tuesday (April 14, 2026) stating he needed help finding his girlfriend’s (Rachel) rose gold ring with diamonds and a sapphire in Huntsville, AL. I asked how the ring was lost. Derrick replied that him and Rachel had gotten into a little argument, she took off the ring and handed it to him, and he tossed it towards the backyard. This is definitely not the first and won’t be the last ring toss search I’ll receive. It actually happens way more than people think, and I really appreciate their honesty. It’s very important having all the fine details, because I can only find something if I’m searching in the right area. I told Derrick that I’d be more than happy to help and that I could conduct a search when I was off from work on Friday or the weekend.
I met Derrick and Rachel on Friday morning at 9am. I had Derrick stand in the same spot and do a couple of test throws. Derrick felt it was just a light toss and Rachel thought he hurled it. I decided to start searching past the chain link fence in the backyard by where the test rings landed. Derrick and Rachel moved a trampoline out of the search area and I got to work. I made a couple of grid line passes and was about to start checking the neighbor’s yard. I decided to search the small strip of yard before the fence (where Derrick was standing) first, in case it was just a light toss; and sure enough, there was Rachel’s ring! Woo-hoo, thank you, Lord! It had only landed about 10 feet away. Rachel and Derrick were so happy to have the ring back. They both felt really bad about the toss; but hey, things happen. We’re all human and sometimes we let emotions get the best of us. Again, I just really appreciated them being honest with how the ring was lost.
We chatted about some of my prior searches for a few minutes before I headed home. Until the next one, please take care and God bless!
The First Bloom of Spring…..Made Their Hearts Sing!
For just about a year Brendan and his wife had no idea where her ring went missing. Their love of milkweed and the pretty flower it produces inspired them to design a custom ring for Diana. While planting some to attract butterflies is when Brendan thinks the ring vanished. Diana was also busy with other tasks on the property, so they really weren’t sure. I started my grid search on the path Diana took from the house to the garden area. Since the property was once a farmhouse from the late 1800’s I started to see many deep iron targets on my MXT metal detector meter which I quickly passed over. Getting a bouncy signal in where the ring signal would be I dug a piece of foil. Rechecking the ground a new signal sounded good. Pinpointing the item, I dug down about an inch and saw what looked like a flower that was happy to see sunlight again! It was Diana’s ring! Texting them to come out, when they got to me, looking in the hole, Diana plucked the ring from the ground. As huge smiles appeared on their faces, I said what an unusual way to sow the seeds of love!
Jonathan
Why waste your time and money renting or buying a metal detector when you can have someone like me with decades of metal detecting experience look for your lost treasures. Unfortunately some people buy or rent a mental detector to find their lost ring or other jewelry, then when they can’t find it, give up, thinking it can’t be found. I live in Nashville, TN but have also traveled to Kentucky, Georgia and Mississippi to search for and successfully recover lost jewelry and other treasures that were thought to be gone forever.
Jewell was 90% confident that she lost her grandmother’s wedding ring at a very large and popular park near Downtown Nashville on April 12th (2026). She didn’t realize it until it was dark outside. She returned to the park with a flashlight to look for the ring, but didn’t find it. She found my contact information on TheRingFinders directory and sent me a message on Monday morning. I was preparing for a ring search that involved a four hour drive to Mississippi, but I had a few hours available for a search. Jewell had to work and couldn’t meet me at the park to show me the areas she and her family had been, so she sent me maps of the park with those areas highlighted. This wasn’t ideal, but I spent about two areas searching those areas she marked on the maps. Unfortunately I did not find the ring. I told Jewell that once I returned to Nashville from Mississippi, I would contact her.
On Sunday, April 19th, I let know Jewell I was available to search the park and was hoping she could meet me there to give me a better idea of where she could have lost her ring. She was excited to say that she didn’t have to work and would meet me at the park. With an entire week having passed since she lost her ring, she was not very optimistic that I’d find it, but we still walked the path that she and her family took at the park last week. I swung the detector as we walked the route, finding only metal trash and a few coins. The grass was several inches long in some areas, short in some and even non-existent in others. If it landed in the shorter grass or dirt areas, it would have most likely been found by someone.
Jewell returned to her kid’s baseball tournament to allow me to continue with my search. Three hours into the search and luckily in the taller grass I got a strong signal on my detector. Indeed, it was Jewell’s gorgeous ring. It was hiding, completely out of sight in the 4” deep grass for a week, just waiting for yours truly to find it for Jewell. Just moments before I located the ring, a family had placed a blanket over the exact area and was enjoying a picnic. It was right after they picked up their stuff 45 minutes later that I was able to detect that spot. I sent a text with the good news to Jewell. She returned to the park within minutes, happy and excited. She said she just couldn’t believe that I found her ring. She expected that I would have already given up on the search. She now knows just how dedicated the Ring Finders are to finding lost rings and other items even when there is little hope or chance of them being found.
Audrey’s cherished 1-carat Tiffany-style solitaire engagement ring was lost inside her Toyota Camry and later recovered by Brian Rudolph, a licensed professional metal detectorist based in Maryland.
Audrey and Larry are surrounded by love and support from their longtime neighbors—a mother and her two daughters who have known the couple since the girls were born. They stood by their side during the search for Audrey’s missing engagement ring, turning a stressful couple of weeks into a moment of community and care – thanks to Brian Rudolph.
Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (also known as THE RING HERO) searches Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Cliffs, Houses and Vehicles. He Will Find Your Lost Item! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!
By Brian Rudolph – Professional Ring Finder & Metal Detectorist
Owner, METAL DETECTING ADVENTURES INC (Clarksburg, Maryland)
There are some recoveries that remind me exactly why I do what I do. This is one of those stories.
I recently received a call from a very distressed couple who had lost something far more valuable than its monetary worth—a yellow gold Tiffany-style solitaire engagement ring featuring a one-carat diamond.
This was not just any ring. It had been on Audrey’s finger for over 40 years, carrying with it decades of memories, milestones, and love.
A Difficult Day Takes an Unexpected Turn
Audrey and her husband Larry were traveling from Maryland to West Virginia to take their adult son to a hospital specializing in complex back surgery. During the drive, their son rode in the front passenger seat while Audrey sat in the back of their Toyota Camry.
At some point during the trip, Audrey applied lotion to her hands. She briefly removed her cherished engagement ring and placed it on her lap for safekeeping. But in a split second, everything changed.
As Larry made an unexpected sharp turn, the ring slid off Audrey’s knee and vanished somewhere inside the vehicle.
A Frustrating and Emotional Search
At first, Audrey believed the ring would be easy to recover once they stopped the car. But when they arrived at the hospital and later returned home to Annapolis, Maryland, reality set in.
Despite hours of searching—using flashlights, hands, and careful inspection—Larry and Audrey could not locate the ring anywhere inside the vehicle. It felt as if it had simply disappeared.
Confused and heartbroken, they tried everything they could think of, but nothing worked. That’s when Larry discovered my services online through THE RING FINDERS, a worldwide directory of professional metal detectorists who specialize in locating lost rings and jewelry.
After reviewing my business, METAL DETECTING ADVENTURES INC, and confirming I was a licensed professional in Maryland, they decided to reach out for help.
The Search Begins
After gathering all the details about how the ring was lost, I scheduled an on-site recovery attempt at their home.
When I arrived, I immediately began a meticulous search of the vehicle using specialized detection and inspection equipment.
I started in the backseat area, carefully scanning every accessible surface and crevice. From there, I moved to the trunk of the Camry, climbing inside fully to gain complete access to hidden areas. I folded down the rear seats and used inspection tools to examine deep recesses and structural gaps throughout the vehicle. Still—no ring.
The Hidden Location No One Expected
After exiting the trunk, I reset the interior and continued a more detailed inspection around seat mounts, belt mechanisms, and the tight structural areas where components meet the frame of the vehicle. That’s when I finally found it.
Hidden deep within an extremely tight and unexpected area of the car’s interior structure, Audrey’s treasured engagement ring had been trapped out of sight the entire time. It was a location that would have been nearly impossible to locate without specialized tools and experience.
The Moment of Recovery
When I walked into the house from the garage and presented Audrey with her recovered ring, the emotional reaction was immediate. She was overwhelmed with joy—tears of relief and happiness filled her eyes as she realized her ring had been found. After everything they had been through, the weight of the moment was unforgettable.
Larry was equally emotional. The relief in the room quickly turned into celebration as we shared hugs, laughter, and even a few high fives.
Their neighbors soon joined in the excitement, turning the recovery into a small impromptu celebration of something truly meaningful being restored.
Final Thoughts
Recovering lost rings is never just about the object itself. It’s about the memories, the emotions, and the history attached to it.
This particular recovery reminded me how something as small as a ring can carry an entire lifetime of meaning—and how important it is to never give up hope.
I’m grateful I was able to help bring Audrey’s engagement ring back where it belongs.
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