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Lost bracelet in Sanford Florida, Found and returned to happy owner!

  • from Sanford (Florida, United States)
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Mobile metal detecting service anywhere in Central Florida…here to help you…call or text ASAP at 321-363-6029!

The best part of being a member of The Ring Finders is the opportunities I am given to help those in need to find something that they are desperate to find. It may be a ring or a necklace, cell phone or property markers, etc. This search began when a friend asked me if I could look for a special bracelet. Apparently a young boy in our neighborhood was given a bracelet as a gift from his aunt who had traveled to Africa and she knew that Zack loved animals. He was anxious to wear it and as young boys are known to do, he and a friend were out trying to catch hornets and bees and in the excitement his bracelet came off somewhere during their adventure. He was heartbroken of course and I said a short prayer…asking God to help me locate and reunite Zack with his special lost bracelet. The boys had spent a good bit of time around two flowering bushes that the bees and hornets were drawn to. And sure enough at the 2nd bush I got a good signal in the mulch and I could barely make out his lost bracelet just laying on top of the ground but very disguised! How I thanked God for leading me to the exact spot and Zack’s smile says the rest!

Maybe you need help finding a lost item? It could have been lost years ago or just recently…as long as you have a good idea as to the location and no major landscaping has been done! Call or text me at 321-363-6029 and let’s talk!

Mike McInroe…humbled to be a member of theringfinders.com

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Missing Ring in the Wiser Lake Area

  • from Bellingham (Washington, United States)
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Yes unfortunately another lost ring? Thought she had lost it at her brother-in-laws house at a birthday party. After covering that location we then went to her home and recreated her morning that day. Worked a few areas around her house then she remembered she took a walk into the woods so off we went. Swinging the metal detector along a wooded trail to a beautiful location turned up nothing. Of course I kept swinging on the way back and actually spotted it on the ground a bit off the trail and made the find. It is interesting how a ring ends up where it is eventually found. Every time I make a find I learn something new about how and where to look. It is not as simple as it seems, and why we get calls from people who have spent days searching. So yes we can usually help and often its is not always with the metal detector or in the location believed to be.

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Ferndale Field of Lost Dreams

  • from Bellingham (Washington, United States)
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Got a call for a lost ring in Ferndale Washington. He was doing yard work and throwing all his debris over a fence into a field spreading it out as he went along. So of course he thought it flew off his finger while flinging plant cuttings. Often a lost item isn’t where you think its is. Unfortunately the only way to rule out the idea is to search. It was a straight forward area of search that turned up nothing. I then will try to recreate the scene and take the client back in time to relive the moment before the obvious to after. Help them walk through it and usually some other locations or ideas will turn up. Unfortunately in this case that did not help either. I kept swinging back to my car and found it in the parking area. Another location where people often lose items. 

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Lost Ring in the Water at Lake Whatcom

  • from Bellingham (Washington, United States)
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Today in Bellingham Washington I found a ring for a client who was enjoying our warm weather in the lake. He actually lost two rings and saw them fly off his hand while throwing a football. For those who do not know, when you are in cold water your fingers shrink and it is very easy to lose rings. Especially when making harsh moves like throwing a football. If you have a ring or rings that are already loose, you should remove them before swimming in cold water. Always better safe then sorry! These were lost in about four feet of water. He was able to find one at the moment of loosing them but called me out to find the second. Without too much trouble the second ring was recovered.

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Ring Found In Hardy Pond, Near Stanwood, MI

  • from Holland (Michigan, United States)
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Back around the first of July Sue Bardins, a former co-worker from FCS, contacted me and stated her friend lost his ring. I met Steve at the site and he explained that they had pulled up their pontoon boat on the shore to spend some time swimming in the sandy area of the river. He was in about chest deep water right behind the pontoon boat when he felt his ring fly off. I searched that area up to my neck and came up empty. We figured the ring was pushed out deeper from the prop wash of the boats that docked there quite often. The plan was to wait until late fall or winter when the water level was lowered to work on the dam. Water level was at least 10 ft lower today and the area where the ring was lost is no longer under water. The temperature today was in the 40’s and with the recent rain, most of the snow has disappeared. I contacted my friend Chuck Raison to help me with the search and in about 20 minutes Chuck came up with the ring. Actually the ring was found about 15 ft further west than I had searched. I stopped on my way home and surprised Steve and his wife with the ring. This year was their 20th anniversary. We never give up hope!

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Platinum Wedding Ring Recovered in Chapel Hill!

  • from Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)
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I got a text from Andrew in Chapel Hill about his lost wedding ring. He’d been playing football with his son in the yard and while practicing a long snap (picture the guy who hikes it to the punter), his ring flew off. He knew exactly when it happened and where, but didn’t know where the ring had gone. In the month since he’d lost it, Andrew had bought an inexpensive metal detector to try and find it himself, but had not found the ring, which is when he called me. After he showed me where and how the ring came to be lost, I searched for about 90 minutes with no luck. I took my own ring, tied a bright orange string to it, and asked Andrew to come out and snap the football several times wearing my ring so I could see where his ring might have gone. After several snaps, we had a good idea of where the ring should have been – unfortunately, the ring wasn’t there. I widened my search area quite a bit and after another hour or so, found the ring almost 90 degrees to the left of where we thought it should have landed.

Andrew and his wife have an anniversary coming up soon and he’s glad he’ll have his ring back where it belongs for that special day. Another happy ending!

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Two Gold Wedding Rings Recovered in Siler City!

  • from Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)
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I got a text from Luke, who was vacationing in North Carolina from West Virginia. Quoting from Luke’s original text, « I lost not 1 but 2 wedding bands in the yard at our Airbnb in Siler City ». Apparently Luke lost his ring playing in the yard and someone in the group declared it shouldn’t be that hard to find a ring in the grass. That led to his wife’s ring being tossed out into the grass to show how easy it would be to find, which is how Luke got to the situation he was in. Anyway, Luke and I spoke and he cleared it with the landlord for me to go out and search. He had sent me a map of the backyard and had marked the area where he thought I should search. I found her ring after about an hour and a half (the yard was filled with pop tops, bottle caps, nails, screws, etc.), but it took me probably another 30 minutes to find his ring. I sent Luke this picture of the two recovered rings and we made arrangements for me to ship them back to him in West Virginia. Although I didn’t get to hand the rings to Luke and his wife, it was still a nice recovery and nice long-distance happy ending!

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Diamond and Gold Wedding Ring Recovered in Fuquay-Varina

  • from Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)
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I received a call from a nice couple in Fuquay-Varina (about 15 miles from the house) asking me to help find the wife’s wedding ring. The husband said it was in the back yard, which should have been an easy recovery. When I got there, he showed me where the ring had gone:  down a briar-covered hill, behind the back yard. Although they were certain about the direction the ring had gone, they didn’t have a guess on how far it might have traveled. Given that, I started at the top of the hill, working my way down, fighting the briars. After maybe an hour of « briar fighting », I had reached the bottom of the hill, but still no ring. I decided to walk even further out and start to work my way back towards the house, hoping I wouldn’t have to re-search the hill. As soon as I reached what I had chosen as my furthest point, I found the ring easily.

When I climbed back up the hill and returned the ring to the wife, she burst into tears. It’s always good to be able to recover and return a ring, but this one was extra special – another happy ending!

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A Lost « Smart Ring » During a Walk in the Park in Eastvale, CA- FOUND!

  • from Corona (California, United States)
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Lost a ring, necklace, keys, or other metallic object and you know the approximate area? Call or text me IMMEDIATELY (951-415-6007) and don’t buy a cheap metal detector off Amazon that you won’t know how to use.

The first Ringfinder call-out of 2026 started on a wet Friday night, January 2nd. I received a text from Natalia saying she was interested in my services for a ring she lost in a park in Eastvale the night before. She explained it was a Titanium “Oura Smart Ring”. I agreed we’d meet at the park on Saturday.

When I met up with Natalia, she told me she had been walking her dog throughout the park, and at some point she noticed her ring was missing. What is incredible is that the “Smart” ring is just that…SMART. She had an app on her phone and it shows the location of the ring, however she couldn’t locate it. I looked at the app and it showed the ring in a small grassy area next to the baseball diamond. Not being familiar with this type of ring, I Googled what the accuracy of the “Found” app was. It said it could be 10′-15′ from the shown location.
I began a grid search, but after some time, and checking other locations she had been with her dog that night, I found nothing. This was extremely frustrating. As it started raining, I told Natalia I would be back after it stopped. Unfortunately, the rain lasted all of Saturday and Sunday.

On Monday afternoon, I went back to the park to resume the search. I brought a friend as I was confused how a Titanium ring that would have been on the surface, yet maybe hidden in the grass was not being detected by my metal detector. We spent about a half hour searching that same grassy area. All we were finding were coins and junk. A short time later, ringing up as a nail or piece of foil, there was the ring, hiding in the grass! And it was within the area the app on Natalia’s phone said it would be! Pretty SMART! I was probably as happy as Natalia was when I texted her the picture of her ring. The lesson is, never overlook the « trash » settings on your detector.

I met with Natalia on Tuesday to return her ring, and I got to meet « Winston » from that fateful walk in the park!

 

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Lake St.Louis Lost Wedding Band

  • from St. Louis (Missouri, United States)
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I was cleaning the gutters, not wearing gloves (lesson learned) and as I threw the debris, my wedding ring slid off my finger and went with the debris into an area of Ivey. In that environment, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Jeremy Roth of Ringfinders to the rescue. He found the ring along with a few other items overgrown by the ivey. Just in time to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary!

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