Lost Gold/Diamond Ring in Chattanooga-Found
This lady had lost her gold and diamond ring in her yard on the day before, during a family event. I found the ring in less than 30 minutes about 4-5 feet from the edge of the driveway.







This lady had lost her gold and diamond ring in her yard on the day before, during a family event. I found the ring in less than 30 minutes about 4-5 feet from the edge of the driveway.







In her own words via text Valerie was desperate and distraught when she reached out to me to help find her missing diamond engagement ring. She lost it in the front yard of her Wilmington, DE home…she actually lost both her wedding band and engagement ring but was able to find the band after frantic hours of searching. She spent hours searching for the white gold, diamond engagement ring before finding me in the Ring Finder Directory. She texted me and I called her right away…told her I could be there that afternoon. She was stuck at work till 9 pm but said her daughter, Kylie, would be there and could assist me. When I got to her home I called Valerie and asked where she was in the yard when she lost her rings…she told me sort of in the middle…maybe to the left of the front door. The grass was a bit high and bushy so I could see how it would be difficult to find the ring without a metal detector. Anyway 60 seconds later and maybe 5-6 sweeps of my machine I got the all-to-familiar surface gold tone on my machine! Bent down…parted the grass…and there was her beautiful ring! I had knocked on the door to introduce myself to Kylie when I first arrived….now I was knocking on the door again 3 minutes later to hand her her mom’s ring! She was very happy I was able to find and return her mom’s lost ring. I understand Valerie did some screaming at work when she heard the news! Always fun and rewarding when you can come through for nice people!



Rec’d a call from Mr. Garcia requesting our services to hunt for a most valuable possession…his Texas Aggie ring. (Anyone from Texas knows how much those rings mean to their owners!) Mr. Garcia had been moving out of his current residence to move to another city so locating this ring was imperative to say the least. He picked up a broken pair of sunglasses and threw them sidearm across the yard, when he did he saw his beloved Aggie Ring go flying. He had spent Friday evening (3 hrs), Saturday afternoon (2 hrs) and again Sunday, another 3 hrs but that important ring was no where to be found! We arrived with our Garrett metal detectors, Pinpointers and a can-do attitude and stayed in the Texas heat to help as best we could. We detected grass, huge bushes and even areas where we felt it might have gotten kicked or raked over to, but, nada, nothing, it was still lost. Mr. Garcia had no doubt whatsoever where he saw it bounce across his yard and knew it absolutely HAD to be there, somewhere. We decided to re-search the areas beneath the huge bushes, on hands and knees with only our Pinpointers and low and behold….found it!!! Amazingly enough it was found under the roots of one of the largest bushes. How it traveled to where it was found is beyond imagination but…when one method doesn’t work determination proves there’s always another.
Drove out to Caddo Lake for an individual to look for two very special rings. She is a nature photographer by trade (& a very good one) and had taken her rings off and placed them in the fold of her lap/shirt while in the kayak to get a pic of a bird. Excited about the pic she continued to kayak around the cove snapping pictures and when it was time to head back in she paddled to the spot where she entered the lake. Feeling the solid ground beneath the kayak she stood up to exit the craft and her rings plopped in the murky water. In her panic to recover the rings she placed her camera equipment on shore and tried to feel around beneath the water to no avail. In the span of just a few hours she had purchased two different types of metal detectors and even tried to shovel clumps of Muddy Muck from the edge of the lake. However, a park ranger did not see the humor in that, made her stop and told her to call someone professional but that she was not to dig again. She called us. Due to the metal garbage in the lake we had to first remove all things that set off our detectors and then proceed to concentrate on the jewelry specified sounds. One of her rings belonged to her mother (who recently passed away) and the other was her engagement ring. After a couple hours searching thru the mud and the muck We found one beautiful ring which had belong to her mother. The engagement ring is still elusive and we will have to travel back to continue the search another day.

Received a call from a young lady who was almost in tears that needed our help in finding her newly acquired 2022 high school graduation ring that unknowingly came off while swimming in Lake Lewisville. Since it was already at the end of the day but close enough to go view the area we met her about 7:00pm. After accessing the beach area and the size of the area she had been swimming in we knew how to tackle this problem first thing the next morning. After gridding off the search area we began to hunt; luckily enough it was little more than chest high in some areas but very murky. It took about 2 hours, along with avoiding other swimmers who came to enjoy the day, but she now has her beautiful ring back on her finger.
We got a call from Alberta, Canada from a very nice lady named Heidi, she said that her father had passed and that she was the executor of the estate in Pottsboro, Texas. She said her father was a Prepper and a Horder. He had left her an envelope with instructions on where he had buried up to $300,000 in silver coins in his backyard.
The family was able to find and dig up up what they believed at the time was all of the PVC Tubes with the coins from the yard. But they were concerned that maybe there were others buried in the yard someplace. They just wanted to be sure before selling the property.
So she ask us to scan the property to be sure nothing was left and to reopen all the PVC tubes that they knew about to be sure everything had been removed, and it had.
It was 95 degrees on Fathers Day morning at 8am to do our search. We searched the entire backyard and then dug up the PVC Tubes where the known coins had been found. It was thrilling to think that so much in coins had been buried there. It really was like digging for buried treasure.
It was a great day and another satisfied customer for the Dallas Ring Finders…
We received a call from an 86-year-old gentleman who said his 72-yr old wife (who has Alzheimers) had hidden his last set of keys to his car and he needed our help desperately and then he began to cry, it nearly broke my heart; secondly he told me that over the last two years she has hidden all of her jewelry and all of their silver somewhere in their 4000 sq ft home and beautiful yard in Dallas.. we said we would come right out. We went over, checked out the home as the couple had lived there 38 years and had lots of things in the home presenting lots of challenges. We set up a schedule to come back on a weekly basis to continue the search and go room by room, item by item, which is something very unusual for us to do. Using our Garrett Pinpointer‘s today we finished our first four hours of searching & found several sets of earrings, a beautiful lapis bracelet and some other miscellaneous items that he was very happy to get back. We’re going back again next week as we’re focusing on a very expensive necklace and very special pair of earrings that are missing totaling somewhere in the area of $35,000 – $70,000 in total jewelry cost. We consider this as part of our “forgotten fortune” category. We will keep you guys updated as we go forward.

I’m so glad that I could help out Holden and his wife Sellers this weekend. Holden called and told me that they had spent the day before playing in the water behind their condo and they had been anywhere from ankle deep to 10ft deep. He had recognized that he didn’t want to lose his ring so he took it off and put it in the zippered pocket of his swim trunks. When he went to reach for it later in the day, you guessed it, there was a large hole in the bottom of the pocket and no ring. Holden decided to put a quarter or two in the pocket and start walking from shore to see what happened. They quickly came out so he marked the area he thought his ring might be in and went inside to call me after an internet search. We talked and agreed that I would come out and search the water as deep as I could wade and then if needed I would come later with scuba gear. When I got there Holden told me that I would probably have a curious audience because his entire extended family was watching from the condo balcony. Holden had paid such great attention to every detail that he really made my job easy. On about the 3rd pass or so out to deep water I got a great gold tone in about waist deep water. Everyone got to cheer and watch as Holden got his ring back. I’m very glad that I got to help y’all. Sew that pocket up and enjoy the rest of your time at the condo. 😃
Having a awesome day playing with Kids in the lake, then Our client decided to swim some laps from pier to pier. Just as he was getting out of the lake he realized his Gold Chain and Gold Maedallion which he always wore was gone. This was a generational family gift passed down from great grandfather to grandfather to father to him. He screamed and everyone got in the water dragging feet in the 4-6ft deep waters. They spent hours looking for it until darkness set in. In desperation he got on the internet thinking maybe he could rent a Underwater Metal Detector, in the process of the search he found us , Don & Ellen Wilson with Dallas Ring Finders. Professional Metal Detectorists who also did underwater detecting. Contacting me a 9:45pm on Mothers Day, we answered the call. Set up a time to drive 3 hours to Jewett, Tx to search the lake 2 days later. After nearly 2 hours of searching the area he thought it would be in we widen out our search grid and as I was bringing up my water scoop with a target I saw something gold in color flutter away back down into the lake. I knew I had it, instantly I detected again and found the object, carefully scooping the item, I slowly raised the scoop to the Surface and there it was shinning like only gold can even in the middle of the muck and mud. After lots of yelling and whoops of happiness we got some great video and photos of another happy client. Another Great Find for the Dallas Ring Finders.
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This turned out to be my first of two ring searches on May 9th, 2022. This one was in Lincoln, AL for a 14K yellow gold wedding band and the second one was in Maysville, AL for a 14K white gold mother’s ring. It’s about a 2 hour and 15-minute drive between the two locations. I’m very happy to report that both rings were successfully found! Ring search #1…
I received a call from Austin just before noon on Monday, May 9th, 2022. Austin stated that he lost his 14K yellow gold wedding band the day prior (Mother’s Day) while walking to his boat in 2-4 feet of water in the Coosa River (part of Logan Martin Lake) in Lincoln, Alabama. Austin told me that he’d been married less than a year and desperately wanted his ring back. He also dropped his sunglasses in the water. Austin spent about 2 hours searching for his sunglasses and wedding band. He was able to find the sunglasses, but unfortunately, came up empty handed on the ring. He went online for ways to recover it and came across a service he never knew existed…The Ring Finders!
I had the other ring search scheduled for when I got off work that day. I thought I could leave immediately for Lincoln, AL and help Austin find his ring, then head to Maysville for the second ring search. I put in a leave request at work and started gathering up my gear. I arrived in Lincoln around 3pm and met Austin by the water. I quickly changed into my wetsuit pants and grabbed my detecting gear. Austin showed me where he was wading through the water, where his boat was parked, and where he found his sunglasses. He said that he never saw or felt the ring come off his finger, but he noticed it was missing within 30 minutes after his boat ride.
I started a north/south grid search in the area Austin found his sunglasses at. I then expanded my grid to where he walked towards the dock and then the other side by where his boat was parked. Unfortunately, I only found some trash, fishing sinkers, and a nickel. I then worked an east/west grid making sure I covered the entire area really well. I asked Austin questions on whether he shook his hands, threw anything, etc. Austin said no and that I had pretty much covered all the spots he was at.
I decided to continue searching towards the shoreline just in case Austin’s recollection was slightly off. Within a few minutes I got a screaming signal in the gold range about 20 feet from the original search area. I took one scoop and had a ring in my basket! I told Austin that I got it. He said, “NO WAY!!!” With a big smile I replied, “there’s a yellow gold ring in my scoop!” I picked it up and asked him if there was an inscription. Austin quickly said, “all my love”. This was it! Austin couldn’t believe it, because he said he didn’t walk over that far. I’ve had a couple of searches that turned out this way. Just another great learning experience to remember– always keep expanding the grid!
I walked over to the dock where Austin was standing and handed him his wedding band. He said that he thought he’d never see it again and this was the best thing ever! I’m so happy that he has his ring back and it was honestly found at the last minute where it shouldn’t have been. Thank you, God, for another successful recovery! I’m so proud to be a member of Chris Turner’s online directory of metal detecting specialists, The Ring Finders! Write-up of search #2 to follow…


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