Lost Keys Found! Banff, AB
Dec 21/19 – received a call from a young lady in Banff, AB. She’d lost her keys in her driveway and couldn’t find them in the deep snow. They were recovered in a snowbank on the side of the driveway.
Dec 21/19 – received a call from a young lady in Banff, AB. She’d lost her keys in her driveway and couldn’t find them in the deep snow. They were recovered in a snowbank on the side of the driveway.
February 15, 2021
I received two calls today. The first call came from Natasha. She was late for her massage appointment. She put her keys in her pocket and ran the three blocks. Since I was not busy and lived only minutes away and I told her I would take a look. I searched the route she took and checked the soft snow along the sides. My gut instinct was that they were most likely picked up. The more I thought about it, the more likely it was that they were close to home. We headed back and I searched where I thought they would most likely be. While there, the front door of the nearest home opened. A gentleman asked what we were looking for. Natasha described her keys to him, after which he turned to go back inside and returned with her keys!!! Success sometimes doesn’t come with the detector.
The second call came around 3:30 pm. Ali had lost his keys while sledding down a hill on Friday. It was Monday. After chatting with him, he had done everything right. From immediately searching, to checking places where someone may have placed them if they were picked up. From what he described and what he did it seemed very likely they were there. We just had to find them. Ali described three places where he wiped out on the sled. Both of us searched the hill in detail. Ali remembered that his brother had videoed some of the runs, including two where he went off to the side and bailed. We watched and were able to narrow down the search areas. After two very loud beer cans, we searched the second crash site. I mentioned that very often, after searching and checking a variety of signals, I would hear “the” signal. When that happens I stop and stand up. Moments later I got another signal. I let Ali dig it. Sure enough, there they were. Ali was ecstatic. He stopped and said, “Funny, you just stopped and stood up” .
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I received a call from Eric this morning, he lost his keys while shoveling snow yesterday. Moments after arrival the keys were recovered!
We had a snowstorm last night on the East Coast with Leesburg Virginia only getting a few inches and then a heavy coating of ice. The next day, while out at dinner with my son Andrew I received a frantic call from Dave about a set of keys he lost in the snow. The keys were for a rental car and after talking to the rental dealer the cost to have the car towed and the key replaced would have run about $400-500, crazy amount of money!! Dave had done a quick search and found my link via Google to TheRingFinders and gave me a call. Since I could tell the need was urgent and even though the sun was getting ready to go down in about an hour I told Dave I’d be over in about 30 minutes. I asked my son if he wanted to tag along and he said sure so gathered up the gear and headed to Dave’s place.
The property and home are from the 1860’s with the house having a log cabin look to it. After a brief introduction and description of where he believed he lost the ring between his front door and the car I started my detecting. As an older propriety there were a lot of hits but nothing quite at the surface so I continued my search. I had asked Andrew to go the truck for something and within a minute he yells over, « I found the keys! » On the far side of the rental vehicle and just buried under the snow Andrew had noticed just the tip of a key sticking out. Great quick recovery with the recognition and reward going to my son Andrew, Great job buddy! Dave was happy to have the keys returned and saving an evening of cost and frustration.
Happy Hunting!!
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I received a call from a distraught Kayleigh on Thanksgiving Eve (Wednesday, November 25, 2020) for a lost set of keys. Kayleigh explained that she was in the stressful process of moving and lost her only set of car and house keys on Tuesday afternoon. Kayleigh was supposed to leave on Wednesday morning to travel to Tennessee for a Thanksgiving Day family gathering. Instead, she spent all day Wednesday searching for her keys. She wasn’t sure if she put the keys somewhere in the house or dropped them in the leaves outside, but she was unable to find them.
Running out of options, Kayleigh went online to rent a metal detector and discovered The Ring Finders Metal Detecting Service. She decided to try a Ring Finder from the directory first. Starkville, Mississippi is almost a 3.5-hour drive (7-hour round trip) from where I’m located at in Huntsville, Alabama, but there were no other Ring Finders in her area. Hearing her voice on the phone, I could tell I was her only hope in order for her to see her family on Thanksgiving. I graciously agreed to drive out early on Thanksgiving morning for a search.
I left my house at 4am and arrived at Kayleigh’s house around 7:30. She had a pot of coffee waiting on me and we enjoyed a quick cup before I got to work. Kayleigh said she could’ve lost the keys in either the front of the house or in the backyard while cleaning up around the firepit. She wasn’t sure which path she took to walk out there, but she felt the backyard was the most likely spot she would’ve dropped the keys. The backyard also had a large amount of leaves that could easily hide a set of keys. I thought this was the best place to start searching. Due to the rebar in the concrete, I used my handheld Garrett pinpointer to clear around the leaves on the patio. I then started scanning my Minelab Equinox 800 along the most direct path to the firepit. The first signal I checked, I brushed a few leaves aside with my pinpointer and boom, there were Kayleigh’s keys!!! 5 minutes after starting the search and the first signal I checked, I had Kayleigh’s keys in hand! I went back in the house to tell her the good news!
Kayleigh was so thankful and relived that she had her keys back! She also couldn’t believe at how quickly I found them, because she spent a whole day searching! Nonetheless, she had her keys back! I had been praying the night before and during the drive to Mississippi for God to put me in the right spot. I asked Him for a quick search in order for us both to be able to spend the rest of Thanksgiving with our families. God surely delivered! All glory to Him!
Kayleigh thanked me a few more times. We said Happy Thanksgiving and I was back on the road home. Kayleigh was leaving shortly after to see her family in Tennessee for the Holiday. This was truly a Thanksgiving miracle!
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I got a phone call from a young man who lost his keys while he was gardening in his yard, he asked if I could come out and help find them. He told me the keys were for his house & workplace, he didn’t have an extra set. I felt confident that I would find the keys if, in fact, he lost them in the yard. Key searches are relatively a simple search, but I try never to go into a search believing it is going to be easy because that’s when they surprise you. He lived in Abbotsford which is over 100 km each way and I knew the drive would be much longer than the search. When we met and he showed me the area, I told him he could go in the house and stay warm and that I would text him when I found the keys. The search area was quite a big area but it only took a matter of minutes to find his keys and to my surprise, they were buried in the ground close to where he pulled out a tree. He was in his house for only a few minutes and then I text him to come back out and grab his keys, I left them in the dirt for him to see where they were found and just had one key exposed. I could see how happy he was when he came around the corner, he asked where I found them and I showed him where and I think he too was surprised they were buried.
Key searches might not be as exciting as finding a ring but I know sometimes it can be just as important.
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