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Lost Ring in the yard – FOUND!!!

  • from Orange Beach (Alabama, United States)

This was one of my favorite recoveries. Not just because of the unique story but because of the great people involved. I got a call from Marilynn and I could hear her husband David talking in the background. Marilynn began to explain their story and David quickly took the phone. I knew it was going to be an interesting one when David said, “Man, I’m just embarrassed to tell you this”. It turns out that David has been metal detecting for years and the day before he was trying to pass on the love for the hobby. He was having a friend over to check out a detector and David decided to go out in the yard before his buddy got there and plant his very large, solid gold antique wedding band in front of the trash can so he’d know right where it was. Shortly thereafter his friend was finding some pennies and some other bits of metal but he never found David’s ring. Finally David had to spoil the surprise and he told his friend to go over by the trash can and see what he could find. When he still didn’t find it, David took his detector back to find it himself. You can imagine his surprise when he couldn’t find it either and he now had lost his own planted wedding band in the yard. 😳. They ended up trying a second detector and then ultimately spent the rest of the day completely digging up the grass and dirt from about a 5x5’ section of the yard. The next morning, David remembered a friend of his that also detected and thought that maybe he would have some higher grade detectors and got him to come over. Well he did bring two very good machines over but you guessed it, they weren’t able to find it. That’s when they searched the internet and found me. I was intrigued with the story and ended up actually knowing the guy who had gone that morning. I got some info about his settings, etc. from him and told him that now I wanted to find it just so I could good naturedly give him a hard time if I was able to find it. 😃 When I got there, the yard was exactly as described and there was a 5x5’ section in the grass that was torn to pieces down into the dirt. David and Marilynn obviously wanted this ring back. I won’t bore you with too many details but I used a very advanced machine with 2 different coils and we dug up some very deep bits of copper pipe but no ring. All the while, David was adamant that he had placed it right there. I completely believed him but my wife always has a saying that “if they knew where it was, they wouldn’t need me.”  Wise woman!  So I started telling David stories about all the crazy places I had recovered rings for people. We hit it off as we continued to very slowly search that small area. Finally I told David that I totally believed that he had planted the ring there but would he please trust me and let me walk down the yard a bit. He told me I could and I didn’t go another 5 feet before I got a buried tone a few inches deep. He dropped down and popped it out and it was an old penny. I told him that with the size of his ring, that was the sound I wanted to hear. As I stood up I rescanned the spot and right beside it was another tone but only about 2 inches down. David said that we might as well pop out the other penny just to get it out of the way. When his beautiful antique ring came out of the ground he was absolutely thrilled while at the same time perplexed how it got over there. I told him that sometimes it just takes another perspective and that I thought he may have accidentally thrown it over there with a shovel the previous day and that either himself, his wife or the two other metal detectorists could have pressed it into the ground with a boot while they were focused on the other area. Either way, David and Marilynn were beyond thrilled to get it back. David said that my reputation had been on the line but that he was amazed. 😃 Im so glad I was able to help y’all out. No more planting family heirlooms in the yard!  LOL

Lost 14K Gold Mens Wedding Band Found In Ocean City, Maryland

  • from Lewes (Delaware, United States)
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On 04/13/2022, I received a call from Rick’s wife asking if I could help with finding his lost 14k Gold Wedding Band that had been lost in the sand on the beach in Ocean City, Maryland. I agreed to help find the lost ring and I responded to the location at which time I learned that Rick had been folding up a beach chair when his ring slipped off of his finger and fell into the sand where it disappeared. After a failed attempt to find his ring in the sand Rick and his wife marked the area that the ring was lost in with a stick and then contact me for help. I began a grid search and on my second pass of the area I located the lost ring just west of the stick that had been placed in the sand as a marker. The ring was recovered and return to its rightful owner.

Lost wedding ring in Ocean, St Augustine, Florida….Found!

  • from Sanford (Florida, United States)
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Mellisa and her husband were enjoying a beautiful day at the beach and while walking their two large dogs the unexpected happened! As they were splashing water on the two dogs in the ankle deep surf, Ian actually felt his ring come off of his finger but he did not have any idea where it landed. All he remembered was how deep the water was and that it happened around 3:30 in the afternoon. Plus they figured they were « in front off » a certain hotel during their play time with their dogs.

When Mellisa called me and asked for my help I knew it was important to get out and search ASAP and since I already had plans for the evening I encouraged her to contact one of the members of theringfinders in the St. Augustine area. And thankfully she was able to talk to Barbara who passed her request on to a friend named Dick who enjoys helping with beach searches. Dick was able to meet Ian and Mellisa and looked for an hour and a half but did not find Ian’s lost wedding ring. The couple had to leave back to Georgia and Dick was planning to come back in a day or two to look again. And it just so happened that I got a call from someone in the Jacksonville area so I decided to stop by the beach and help Barbara and Dick look. When I arrived they were both swinging their metal detectors and had basically covered all the logical areas where Ian said they were while splashing their dogs. He had previously indicated that he was in ankle deep water just after high tide so that would have put them up on the wet sand. We spent another good 90 minutes and Dick thought maybe he would wander down towards the waters edge and detect some and BANG… he got a solid signal and was totally surprised to see a chunky man’s yellow gold ring in his scoop! Could it possibly be Ian’s lost wedding ring?!! He called me over to have a look and I was shocked how far towards the water the ring was. Come to find out the beach had a first sand bar that would have separated two places where Ian could have actually been in ankle deep water during the time he indicated–so I learned something new that day that will help me in future searches!

It was great to meet Barbara from St. Augustine and Dick who loves to metal detect and they both enjoy looking for and returning lost rings to their rightful owners! Two very wonderful people who share the same passion and hobby that I myself do!

Do you need help finding something that you lost? Call or text me ASAP!

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

Plumber Looses Ring While Digging Ditch in Dallas

  • from Dallas (Texas, United States)
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We got a call from a local team of plumbers who were digging a ditch in the cold December Texas weather and one of the men lost his wedding ring.  He was frantic, fortunately, we were available and went quickly to the site.  The hole was 4ft deep and full of horrible muddy water and muck.  After several passes with our large Metal Dectortors, we switched to our handheld detectors and checked all the walls by nearly standing on our heads reaching into the mucky muddy water hole.  But luck & skill were with us and we FOUND the man’s ring.  He was so excited, it was so funny watching 4 big plumbers jumping up and down and dancing in the front yard of the home.

Another successful Find for the Dallas Ring Finders

ENGAGEMENT RING FOUND IN BATON ROUGE,LA-ONE DOWN ONE LEFT TO GO

  • from Lafayette (Louisiana, United States)
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Lauren called me around noon on a Tuesday. She had lost her engagement ring and wedding band on Sunday at an event called “Touch a Truck”. A wide variety of trucks, construction equipment, an ambulance, a helicopter, etc. were positioned in a large (over 3 acre) field for the inspection by adults and their children. Lauren and Corey took their young children to see and play on many of the exhibited vehicles. Starting out the adventure, Lauren placed her wedding rings in her pocket before applying sunscreen to the little ones. She also placed her phone in the same pocket. She took many photos of the kids, each time pulling the phone from her pocket. She noticed the rings missing when she returned to the car.

She sent me a map of the event and some photos she had taken. These photos would help me locate the areas where she had taken her phone out of her pocket. Carrie wasn’t feeling well, so I loaded up the equipment and took off alone. I decided first to go for pure luck and make passes the length of the field (600 feet) focusing more on sight than the detector since the area was very trashy with a very noisy detector. Also, the grass was short and not very dense. After a few passes I decided to check the photo and focus on where they were taken, and the phone removed from the pocket. One photo, which turned out to be the first one taken, showed a distinctive lone tree with a tree line behind it. From the photo I sectioned off a possible area where the photo was taken and hopefully the phone was removed from her pocket. I was making my turn to start the final pass in the hunt area and the engagement ring was sitting on top of the ground/grass in full view. I sent a photo to an ecstatic Lauren. Her husband Corey came out to collect the ring and help with analyzing the other photos to look for other hunt areas. After another 2 hours of hunting for the wedding band, I decided to call it a day and come back another time to continue the hunt. Thank you, Lauren, for the generous reward.

 

Lost wedding band, East Brunswick, NJ February 2022

  • from Lavallette (New Jersey, United States)

I saw and add on a lost ring site that somebody had lost their wedding band while walking in a park. The add had all the pertinent information of the exact area it was lost. I quickly messaged Michelle explaining that she should just post the generic information due to the fact that unfortunately many people are dishonest, and may possibly go locate it and never return it to her. I also forwarded my ring finders link and told her if she needed help give me a shout. She liked my up front approach and honesty, so we arranged to meet at the park. we went over all the details, an while i was searching alongside the path, she walked with me to show exactly where she was. Unfortunately I had no luck, so I told her where to search in her car, post some flyers around spots she had went, an MOST importantly, do not through out her trash, but go home and dump it out and sift through it very carefully. 2 days later she messaged me in total shock, YES she found it stuck to a box. Although I did not locate it with my machine, I positively, with my knowledge in lost rings and jewelry, get 100% credit for her finding her beautiful platinum/diamond ring.

LOST WEDDING RING IN FAYETTEVILLE, NC…………FOUND!!!!

  • from Fayetteville (North Carolina, United States)

Shawn SGT Sherrill – Ring Recovery Specialist…Lost your ring?… Call/Text ASAP  Anytime 24/7   918-313-2202.

I received a call from an upset young lady saying she had lost her 10/14k rose gold wedding ring in her front yard or across the street from her front yard. It had been missing for 2 days. Her and her husband tried finding it but were unsuccessful. I told her I would head down there right after work and try and find it for her.
I get there and get the details of about where she lost it and go to work….. It took about 10 mins or less and it was found and back on her finger, where it belonged!
Love this hobby and making someone smile again after finding something they lost that’s so priceless.
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Ring lost in El Cajon found

  • from La Jolla (California, United States)

Brian was making an early morning delivery when, after jumping out of the back of his vehicle, he shook his hands in the cold and, in horror, saw his wedding ring fly off his hand, bounce twice on the concrete, and then shoot through a chain link fence overlooking a drop-off. He jumped the fence and looked for the ring, but, without success. He found TheRingFinders.com website online and my contact info. After a bit of phone tag, we made contact, and agreed to meet at the site. I got there a bit early and after some text/phone directions from Brian as to the search area, got started. Wow, what a place to detect! A steep slope, soft surface, and lots of metal junk everywhere. Normally, I would rather hunt at the bottom of a steep slope, but, not this time. There was all kinds of metal trash at the bottom along with another chain link fence. I started on the lower section of the slope and gridded my way toward the top hoping it was still just on the surface somewhere. Brian helped with removing dead branches and other metal debris while we both struggled to stay on the slope. More than once we both ended up involuntarily sliding down that slippery slope. After making it all the way to the top and next to the fence the ring passed through, I was faced with detecting the very bottom next to the neighboring metal fence. Moving slowly and picking through the trash, I investigate numerous targets while hearing the fence « talk » to me. I got close to 3/4 the way to the end of the search area, when I got another 14 foil/pull tab type reading I’d been getting numerous times over the last hour. This time, it was his ring, a few inches down in the leaves, loose dirt, and grass that covered that area from our eroding that slope with our search efforts. Brian was happy to have his original ring back to continue it’s story instead of having to get a replacement. A pleasure to meet you Brian and thank you for the reward.

 

Lost ring recovered from snow in Livonia Michigan

  • from Wixom (Michigan, United States)

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Lost Wedding Diamond Ring on Fairfax Station, Virginia Estate Lawn… Found by Ring Finder

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Laura of Fairfax Station, Virginia So Beyond Excited for the Return of Her Most Precious Platinum Diamond Wedding Band that was Found by Ring Finder Brian Rudolph!

Laura’s Beautiful Platinum Wedding Band Surrounded by Lovely Diamonds Found by Brian Rudolph on Laura and Martin’s Gorgeous Estate in Fairfax Station, Virginia!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

I was contacted one winter afternoon by a very kind gentleman named Martin who was desperately trying to help his wife Laura recover her lost platinum diamond engagement ring and her platinum diamond wedding band that had both disappeared on their Fairfax Station, Virginia estate grounds sometime earlier that day. Martin planned to go and buy a metal detector to see if he could find the two pieces of jewelry before scheduling me out to his property. He just wanted to make sure that I was available if he should need my services in the end. As it turned out, Martin eyeballed the engagement ring without using his metal detector, but the wedding band could not be recovered. He kept trying to find the missing keepsake for several hours but finally in the end, the passionate husband decided to give up and “hand over the keys” of this search and recovery operation to me, Brian Rudolph, a proud member of the elite international directory of metal detectorists called THE RING FINDERS.

The backstory goes like this. Laura had expected some visitors later on in the day, so she went out to do some quick weeding and lawn touch-up around her beautiful estate. Even though it was the very first day of winter, she went outside the front door wearing just her pajamas and a robe to begin zealously removing some obvious unwanted plant life in some of her garden beds. Laura took off her wedding band and engagement ring and placed them in her left upper pajama shirt pocket for safekeeping. She figured that since she would be pulling weeds out of the ground, she didn’t want her rings to get dirty and possibly slip off and disappear somewhere in the flower beds. Unfortunately, the young lady didn’t think that her most precious jewelry would fall out of her pajama pocket when she leaned over at some point during her outdoor mission that particular day.

The reason that it was so difficult for Martin to find either one of the rings at first was because Laura had been all over their gorgeous Virginia property. She first started in the circular driveway and did some weeding in the center garden bed. Laura also took a walk down the driveway over to the mailbox and at some point she threw some unwanted weeds out into the leaves located just off of the concrete drive. Then, the busy woman made her way to the left side of the house and continued to weed in some of the garden beds along the side and backyard sections of the estate. There was plenty of leaning forward and bending over to “pretty up” the yard, so unless one was willing to check all of the spots where Laura tended to, it would be very difficult to be completely certain as to where the wedding band and engagement ring fell to the ground.

As it turned out, Martin was so blessed to be able to eyeball the engagement ring just outside of the perimeter of one of the garden beds located on the side of the house. Even though Martin metal detected all around that same section of the side yard, there was no evidence that Laura’s beloved wedding band came out of her pocket in any of that same territory. It was completely up in the air as to where the second ring finally made its way out of her clothes and dropped into the grass or into one of the flowerbeds.

Laura was extremely upset about the whole incident and she so appreciated Martin trying to find her missing rings. When his second effort failed in recovering the wedding band, that’s when the diligent husband made arrangements with me to come out the following day and assist in the project.

Sometime later in the afternoon the following day, I drove out to Martin and Laura’s beautiful Fairfax Station, Virginia estate. It was such a lovely drive as I made my way back into the woods and then followed their long driveway (which was surrounded by crape myrtle trees) until it opened up onto their lovely estate grounds.

Upon arriving, I told Laura that I found her husband Martin to be one of the nicest guys I had ever talked to. Though we only spoke on the phone a couple of times, I read this particular fellow like a book. He was genuinely filled with unlimited respect and thoughtfulness. Truly, I was honored to serve the two of them that late afternoon into the evening hours to come.

Both Laura and Martin showed me around the property and oriented me to each and every place where Laura had walked around that particular morning when she was doing her outdoor work. Once I finished asking all of my questions as we toured the breathtaking estate grounds, I went back to my car to retrieve my metal detecting equipment and then decided to start my search over by the circular driveway.

By the time all of my gear was powered on, darkness began to fall quite quickly. Just before pairing the detector with my headphones, I turned on my high lumens headlamp and began scanning all of that section to see if the ring may had fallen out of the pajama pocket prior to the other ring coming out of the shirt over by the side yard where Martin found the first one. After approximately 30 minutes of swinging my coil, I was able to confirm that the platinum wedding band (which held numerous diamonds around its channel) was not in that location.

Next, I went down the long driveway towards the main street and metal detected all along the sides of the concrete path leading to the mailbox. Once again, Laura’s beautiful band was nowhere to be found in that region, as well.

Continuing on, I took my next leg of the search to the portion of lawn located on the left side of the house where Martin had found the first ring. When nothing turned up inside and around the outside perimeter of the flowerbeds, I moved towards the backyard and detected all of those beds as well. I did some searching down their backyard hill that led into the woods where just leaves covered the ground, but I purposely avoided scanning too much of that area due to the amount of time it would take to clear that portion of the estate. I chose to focus mainly on the flowerbeds and just outside of the gardens since those were the primary areas where Laura leaned forward to do her weed removal.

My plan was this: if I didn’t find the wedding band in any of the regions where Laura had been working, I would then start to do my grid search lines on the lawn starting back at the side yard and then work my way to the rear of the house. Because of the fact that all of the garden beds appeared to be free of possessing the lost diamond keepsake, I had no reason to doubt that the jewel was hiding on the grassy lawn somewhere on their estate. At that stage in the search I concluded that the band must had come out of the pajama pocket some time while Laura might have leaned forward on the grass itself to perhaps pick up a stray weed or two.

As I focused on metal detecting the side lawn area, I chose to do air grid lines (which means I did not use cones or tapes to help keep me swinging my detector coil in straight lines) since I felt pretty confident that I was able to move across the lawn in straight lines without missing a square inch of property.

Throughout the search. I would pick up all kinds of target signals that had the potential of being the lost ring. There were miscellaneous pieces of aluminum and I pulled quite a few of those garden plant labels which indicated what was growing underneath that particular part of the flower bed. However, as much as I had scanned the sections that I had previously detected, all of my potential signals came up negative for the ring.

I must have been on the third or fourth grid line where I had been detecting over the grass along the side yard, when I hit a pretty good signal approximately 8 feet or so from the flower bed where Martin had found the engagement ring just outside of its perimeter. My detector was calibrated to pick up a range of target numbers that were common when searching for rings just like the one that Laura owned. As a professional metal detectorist, I am very familiar with pretty much every kind of wedding band and engagement ring and how it comes up on my detector screen. This particular number that I was getting on my Minelab Equinox 800 machine was very symptomatic of picking up a lady’s petite white gold or platinum wedding band or engagement ring. I had been told by the couple that Laura’s ring size was a tiny petite Size 4 and so this particular signal lined up well with the potential of this being Laura’s ring.

I quickly knelt down on the grass to check the target out, aimed my headlamp towards the ground (remember, I had been working in complete darkness for some time other than utilizing my headlamp above me) and pulled out my handheld pinpointer to begin isolating the exact spot where my metal detector had given me that awesome target signal. It was at that very moment that I could see between the blades of grass the most beautiful diamond wedding band that Laura and Martin had been so longing to be reunited with! I found it! The target signal that I was getting on my machine was in fact that of Laura’s sentimental piece of platinum! The diamonds that so gracefully surrounded the band’s set channel began to sparkle brilliantly as my headlamp light reflected off of the many facets belonging to the priceless stones! I indeed recovered the ring! I found the lost wedding band and most importantly I was so overjoyed for Laura’s sake! It turned out that the ring had come out of the pajama pocket just feet away from where the engagement ring had made its way to the ground. I had previously thought that that was the reason why I could not find the jewel in any of the flower and garden beds. Laura must have leaned forward to pick up a weed on the main lawn approximately 8 feet from the flower bed where she also lost the engagement ring that Martin had eyeballed earlier on. Which ring made its way out of Laura’s pocket first? The answer is: we will never know. I was just so happy to be visualizing Laura slipping her precious keepsake back on her finger in the moments that followed!

Just as I was starting to stand up after recovering the ring from the grass, I noticed that Laura was standing over by her front porch observing my search from afar. I had already been detecting for over an hour and a half and so I was pretty certain that my client was getting worried that perhaps I too might have to walk away that evening without finding her precious jewel. I wasn’t sure if she thought that I had found the ring or not at the moment when I knelt down to the ground, but I was hoping that I could at least try to fake her out and surprise her with the beautiful diamond ring shortly after calling her over to that grassy section of the lawn.

Once I was able to lure Laura over to where I was previously metal detecting, I am proud to share that I successfully surprised my client with the wonderful news that I had found Laura’s missing wedding band! I will never forget her stunned face when I brought out that beautiful piece of platinum filled with diamonds as I placed it in front of her eyes! It was as if she had just received that ring for the very first time (that very special moment in Washington DC when Martin proposed to his future bride!). It really was a fantastic experience and just like all of my other reveals, this one certainly took the cake, as well! I was beyond happy for Laura and she could not have been more excited and more grateful for my successful efforts in recovering this loss jewel from her property!

Once I showed Laura the very spot where I pulled the ring from the ground, she called Martin (who was in the house) to let him know that she was wearing her priceless wedding band once again! Within seconds, Laura’s elated husband was out on his side lawn joining the two of us with the most excited look on his face! I concluded that the metal detector that Martin was using would not have been able to pick up the platinum band (as many metal detectors would be unsuccessful in doing so based on the limited technology that the machines are built with). Martin definitely made the right decision to call in a professional like myself who is familiar with finding rings very similar to Laura’s and to do so without missing a single target signal!

The three of us celebrated out there in the dark on the side lawn with unlimited excitement about the discovery I had made just minutes before the couple were handed the very happy news that I had recovered the missing ring! It was just five days before Christmas and I’m sure Laura felt like she was already getting her first gift from dear old Santa Claus!

When I left Martin and Laura’s beautiful estate, I was so pleased at the results that I had delivered to this wonderful couple! Using my expertise and personal passion to recover such meaningful pieces of jewelry for such lovely people as this couple was, just completely made my day!

As I have shared many times before in prior publications, I love what I do for all of my clients with helping the masses recover their lost property, and I certainly love the people that I do these search and recovery operations for as well!

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