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Rose Gold Floral Band w/Diamonds Lost in a Field, Found and Returned Florence, SC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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This adventure started just before 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 30, 2026, when I received a call from Rick about a lost ring. He said his wife Rona had lost her Engagement Ring somewhere in a field. They were in the process of checking out of a Howard Johnsons Hotel and loading a truck to continue their trip when her ring slipped off her finger. I asked him to send me the address, and I’ll send him my ETA once I got on the road.

It took just under an hour and a half to get to the address; unfortunately, Rick had been given the wrong address to give to me. I quickly asked Siri for directions to the nearest Howard Johnson, which ended up being another 3 miles down the road. Once I drove the 3 miles, I didn’t see a Howards Johnson in any direction. I pulled into a gas station and called Rick. Luckily, he was standing in the field across the highway and saw me walking around the gas station parking lot. We finally met next to the field where the ring was lost, which maybe was half a football field.  He showed me the suspected loss area, where the truck was parked and the area he and Rona had been. Looking at the whole situation, loss was that day, grass was short with bare areas I’m thinking this would be more of a visual search. None-the-less, I turned on the Equinox 800 and tested Rona’s Wedding band, a solid 13 on the VDI (visual display indicator). I started a north/south grid search starting at the curb and working towards the Howard Johnsons. There were a lot of targets, but they were all trash, mostly pull tabs which were ringing up as a 13 on the 800 and bottle caps. Rick was sure of the area it should be in, so I shortened my grid lines. It finally got dark enough to use head lamps for a visual search, thinking that gold ring should shine when the lights hit it. I finished up the area and moved to the far end of one side and started an east/west grid, moving my grid line further out from my original grid lines. Before I did, I talked to Rick and asked him if he would get my other head lamp and start a grid search of his own, going back over my search area. As I got finished with my first east/west grid line, I saw Rick and Rona arm in arm bent overusing their phone flashlight and my headlamp searching like pros. I stopped to see how things were going and as I was talking to Rona, Rick rose up and said, “I just found the ring!” He showed both Rona and me and boom, with the light shining on it, it was obvious as could be. I joked with Rick that he needs to become a ring finder now.

Rick and Rona – Thank you for contacting and trusting me to help find your lost treasure. Best wishes to both of you. Take care!

Jim

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Lost Ring Found at Owner’s Home

  • from Santa Cruz (California, United States)
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Two days ago I got a text from Nico requesting some help finding his ring that he lost a couple months ago in front of his house while playing basketball with his son.  I was a bit concerned about the amount of time that had elapsed, but agreed to meet him yesterday at his house to make an attempt.

When I met Nico I found out that he had already searched extensively for his lost ring, even purchasing a metal detector that he and his boy had been using to look for the ring.  The description he gave me of how he lost the ring was very clear: he had lost it while dribbling a basketball and somehow the ring went flying off his hand.  It was dark and he heard the ring bounce once on the cement driveway but then it was gone.  He also described a vehicle being parked partially in the driveway, which would limit the distance that the ring could have travelled in one direction (into the street).  Because he wore his ring on his left hand and he happened to be facing the street, I suspected that the ring might be in his neighbor’s yard that butted up against his driveway on one side.  So I made a plan to first search his neighbor’s yard close to his driveway, and then to search his yard close to his driveway if this didn’t work out.

After confirming we had permission to search his neighbor’s yard and gathering my equipment, I worked the edge of the yard very slowly and within about 2 minutes got a very strong surface signal in his neighbor’s wood chips.  As I bent down to examine it, I saw the glint of metal peeking through.  I reached down excitedly and extracted Nico’s ring from his neighbor’s yard.

Nico, his son, and I spent another 10 minutes helping him learn how to use the metal detector he purchased, and found out that it worked fine on the ring as well.  So he must not have been precisely on the spot that I had focused my search on.  I was happy to make another ring return to it’s owner.

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Lost Gold Wedding Ring Found in Rehoboth MA

  • from Charlestown (Rhode Island, United States)
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I received a call from Dick, who told me he had lost his gold wedding band while doing some work in his yard.  The ring was lost while he was putting up a temporary fence around an area of the lawn that had just been seeded in order to keep their sweet dog out of the area.  After the fence was installed, Dick realized that he had lost his wedding ring in the process.  He decided to search the internet for help, and that’s when he found me.  When I arrived at Dick’s house, he showed me the area where he had installed the fence.  I searched the area for about an hour and found Dick’s ring.  He couldn’t believe that it had been recovered.  Dick, and his wife of over 40 years, were very happy that the ring was back on his hand where it belonged.

 

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Retirement gift ring found

  • from Chicago (Illinois, United States)
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Got a call today from someone that lost his 30 year retirement gift ring, while playing basketball with his grandchildren.
After a couple hours of searching finally hit it, took a weird bounce and found it where it really should not have been, opposite side of the basketball net, must have hit the net and bounced back behind him.   Anyway very happy to get it back to him.

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