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Evan was tossing a ball to a friend while standing in chest deep water.  It was near high tide as she stood in North Carolina’s Intracoastal Waterway (ICW).  Evan informed me that during one of the throws, her class ring went flying off her finger as she let go of the ball.  I was called the next morning and loaded my equipment and headed her way.  It was a beautiful day when I started my hunt next to the Atlantic Beach Bridge.  I was able to recover her ring during my second pass of an area while her mother sat on the beach and watched.  It always brings a smile to my face to see their expressions after a successful ring recovery.

Evan stated she had found out about my service during an online search for renting a metal detector.

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This couple have been married for 62 yrs. while outside working on the deck in their flower garden she realized her ring was gone. After a short search the ring was found inside a flower pot, happily the ring is back on her finger as they prepare to celebrate their 63rd anniversary.

where it belongs!.

June 20th to 24th found South Milwaukee residents, Tim and Ashley, camped out at the Ford Festival Park near Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They were taking in the Country USA Music Festival for 2017 attended by some 40,000 people. Unfortunately, rain had turned the campsites into a muddy mire. Then on Friday night the toss of a frisbee sent Ashley’s engagement ring flying off her finger into the drizzling darkness. The next morning the couple purchased a metal detector from the local WalMart but found nothing other than debris from countless campers over the years. The chances of extracting a petite gold ring from the tramped mud and accumulation of beer cans, pull tabs, foil wrappers and other metalic remains, bordered on impossible.

On Monday following I received an email from Ashley asking if I could help. Once on location I was the recipient of the kind cooperation and assistance of Ford Festival security employee, Robert, who secured permission to search and who provided a most helpful map of the individual campsites and Tim and Ashley’s site number 1724—ground zero. But after an ever widening three-hours of painstaking investigation through rubbish and mud, further hunting seemed futile. Even with a carefully calibrated state-of-the art XP Deus metal detector the little ring eluded my best efforts. Perhaps someone had already found it, I thought to myself.

I had mentally decided to call off the search and break the sad news to Tim and Ashley that I was not successful. But then on my way back to the car a signal in my headphones prompted further investigation. It came from the remains of a large mud puddle in the roadway. Countless vehicles had driven through it. After digging and removing several bits of aluminum foil, a golf-ball sized clump of mud emitted both a promising tone and the appropriate conductivity numbers for white gold. Probing further, a flash of metal caught my eye. There, squished into the clod was Ashley’s ring! Amazingly it was no worse for wear considering its abuse from the tires of so many vehicles.

Tim and Ashley, I’m so delighted for you both to have found your ring! And thank you for your generous reward.

If you or someone you know has lost a ring, contact me. I and my colleagues at The Ring Finders are happily available to assist.

TESTIMONIAL:

“We thought the ring was gone forever and that the website [theringfinders.com] was a scam, but Paul proved us wrong within a matter of hours. We will forever be grateful and keeping his number on file!”

Ashley

Gregg Larabel, my fellow ringfinder, got a call from Derek whose fiancee (Brooke) lost her engagement ring in the woods behind her apartment while looking for her cat.  She had put her ring in her jacket pocket before entering the woods, and after returning with the cat she found her pocket empty.  After Brooke gave us the story we marked off an area approximately 60ft x 60ft where she went in the woods.  The terrain dropped off sharply there, and the floor of the woods was covered with matted leaves and brush, making for tough searching.   After 2 hours we called in a friend, Dan B, to help us.  It was getting late and the three of us decided to give it one last shot before calling it a day and planning a return trip.  I walked down the hill into the woods and began searching about 20ft beyond the borders we had set up.  I got a good signal, took a closer look, and there was the ring lying in plain sight, right on top of the matted leaves.  To put it mildly, Derek and Brooke were ecstatic and can now concentrate on the upcoming wedding and reminisce in their later years of the day she lost her ring and the day it was found.