Lost & Found Category
Ring Found After 8 Years in Rocky Mountain House,AB!!!!!!!!
Fred is a farmer, and he enjoys gardening. He called me a few days ago with a story. A few years back (About 8 years) he had lost his wedding band in the garden. He had been clearing the garden in fall and was removing potato tops and a few vines. He realized his ring was missing.
He had heard about my locating services, and had heard that I have located lost items before for numerous people. Thus his call to me.
Naturally I was invited to come over to ‘poke around’. With the help of my metal detector, and a short 10 minutes or so, the ring surfaced glimmering as if it were lost yesterday, not 8 years prior.
You can tell from Fred’s smile he was one happy farmer. “Best thing my garden ever produced!!” Fred said in a joking manner.
Tungsten Carbide ring found in Denver lake
While placing anchors for an inflatable float platform in a private lake in northern Denver Erin lost his Tungsten Carbide wedding ring. He had repositioned the float and anchors a couple of times before finalizing its location. He had made a few attempts to recover his ring by using a snorkel mask and free-diving the site. Three weeks later Erin had heard of my attempts to find one of his neighbors ring and contacted me.
The search area wasn’t too large but due to the fact that the lake was a former sand and gravel pit the depth of the water varied from only about 3 feet deep to chin deep. With one of my underwater detectors in hand I began my grid search of the area. Not knowing how a Tungsten Carbide ring would read on my machine I needed to pull up all metal targets. After retrieving several nails, pieces of can and other miscellaneous debris and placing this debris in my trash pouch, Erin’s ring came up in my scoop. Once again the proper equipment, in this case an underwater metal detector and a proper scoop, along with the knowledge and experience in using this equipment saved the day.
Ring recovered: July 8, 2010
- Erin with the search site in the background
Wedding band found in grass parking strip – Denver, Colorado
Adam lost his white gold wedding band one night while walking to a friends house after a night of festivities at one of the local “watering holes”. Due to the amount of libations consumed the true path to the residence was not know for sure. Best guesses as to locations of stopping points to try to rid himself of severe hiccups seemed to be the likely spots of the rings disappearance. The search area could have been several blocks worth of grass strips within the public right of way. But with the information that I had in hand I began my search in what seemed to me the most likely of all the spots. I started my search in a grass strip that Adam had searched on his hands and knees for several hours. Within 10 mintues of search time the ring had reappeard under my search coil. I called Adam who was doing a visual search in one of the alleyways near by. He was a very happy man to get his ring back.
Ring recover June 29, 2010.
Wedding ring found in ditch – Aurora, Colorado
Recently I was contacted by Melissa. One night while in a heated debate with her husband her wedding ring found its way out of the car window. After a few hours cooler heads prevailed and the search for Melissa’s ring was on. They searched the site, which was marked by a field driveway, several times without luck.
I made arrangements to meet the couple and discussed what had occurred the night of the loss. After a quick re-enactment of the events that lead to the rings loss, in which a “test ring” was thrown from the vehicle, my search began. Because of quality equipment, which includes a good set of headphones, I was only slightly hindered by the noise of the traffic on the road just feet away. However, with the Air National Guard taking off in their fighter jets just a short distance away and hitting their after-burners while directly overhead, I decided to take a short break. After about an hour of searching the ring was recovered not more than 6 paces from the location where our “test ring” had landed.
Ring recovered: June 4, 2010
Lost Wedding Ring Found! – West Sacramento, California
A short while ago, a friend of mine called me stating that he had been gardening and had lost his titanium weding band in the front yard. He wondered if I might be able to help him locate it. I said I would be happy to try. I arrived at his house, set up my metal detector and began my search. I searched using a grid pattern, covering the area where he stated he had been gardening. After covering the ground completly, recovering a good number of pull tabs and old roofing nails, I told him with confidence that the ring was not there. I suggested ee look in some other likely places, such as the garage, bathroom, kitchen, or the bedroom. He said we could look, but he was certain that it was not in any of thse places. He looked in the garage and was not able to find it. He looked in the master bedroom, and searched around the dresser and night stand but still could not find the ring. Finally, he moved the bed so that he could look underneath. After not seeing it, he decided to give up. As he was moving the bed back into place, my friend gave the bed a bump to get it back up against the wall. As he gave the bed the final bump, he heard a slight thud, like someting falling onto the carpet. He again looked under the bed and guess what? There was his wedding ring! It had apparently fallen off his night stand where he had put it, and had become caught up in the bed frame. When the bed was bumped, it was freed and fell to the carpet. My friend was very happy, and so was I, even if my metal detector was not the reason for the ring recovery!
Lost Earing Post, Sacramento, California
A couple of days ago my neighbor rang my doorbell and stated that she need my help. She told me her daughter Gracie had her ears pierced about 7-8 months ago and that the earring back had become embedded in her ear lobe. I took a look at the earring, and told her mother I could cut the earring at the post and then she would be able to get the back out. Well, I successfully cut the earring post. And, once I cut the post, the front of the earring separated, and I left thinking that my job was done. Not so.
The next afternoon, my doorbell rang again, and my neighbor was back. She had successfully removed the earring back, but was unable to determine if the post was still embedded in Gracie’s ear. Gracie’s mom wanted to know if I could use my metal detector to scan her daughter’s earlobe to see if the post was till lodged in the ear. I looked at her for a few moments in disbelief, and then I realized my neighbor was serious. You can imagine the scene I envisioned – me sweeping my detector coil over her daughter’s ear trying to find an earring post! Let’s see, did I need to ground balance? Use all metal mode? Coin and Jewelry? But, I immediately had an idea and told her I would be over in a few minutes with a specialized piece of detecting equipment that I though would do the trick.
So, I grabbed my Garrett Pro-Pointer and went next door. I turned on the pinpointer, put it up to Gracie’s ear, and to everybody’s relief, we heard only silence! The post was not in her earlobe! It was the first time I had ever detected an earlobe, and also the first time that I had ever had the experience of a person being happy that a piece of jewelry had not been found! Both my neighbor and Gracie thanked me profusely, and as I left, I could not help but chuckle at the experience. I was truly glad I could help, and in this case, indeed glad that I had not been able to locate the piece of jewelry where they thought it might be!
Heirloom ring found in yard in Longmont
Recently I was contacted by Sheila, who lives in Florida. In February, she came to Colorado to visit her friend Barri from Longmont. While Sheila was here in Colorado, we received several inches of new snow. Since she is from Florida and snow is a rarity, she went outside to play around in the snow, throwing some snow balls and such. Apparently while gathering snow the ring fell off her pinky finger (it is a small ring). When they noticed later that evening that her ring was missing they searched in earnest for it but without success. After that several other people had visually looked for the ring but they also ended their searches without success.
As background information, Sheila’s mother passed away in 1998 and her father then kept her ring for the next 10 years until he passed away in 2008. There was a small battle between the 10 children of the couple as to who would get their mother’s wedding band. Well, Sheila was the one who ended up with the cherished ring.
When I arrived at the house, Barri and I looked over pictures and watched a couple short videos that were taken the day the ring was lost. In one of the videos you can clearly see the ring on her figure. There was a short series of photos that were taken moments later and the ring was missing in the last photo. Thus we knew exactly when the ring was lost.
I put my detector together and began my search. Within 10 minutes of starting I had found the ring. We called Sheila to tell her the good news. To say she was happy would be a HUGE understatement. She was crying, almost uncontrollably, for longer than it took to find the ring.
Sheila's ring
Wedding band found in Denver’s City Park
The wedding band belonging to Ryan Evans had been lost for nearly 3 weeks. He and his wife had all but given up hope on finding his wedding ring when contact between Ryan and Jeff Lubbert took place. A time was quickly set for a meeting that same night at Denver’s City Park. Ryan described the events that led up to the loss of his ring and the how he discovered it was missing.
Ryan left to go for his evening jog leaving Jeff to his search. About 2 hours later Jeff had found a ring in the area that Ryan’s was lost. A few minutes later Ryan and his ring were reunited.
A quote from Ryan. “Excellent news! Got a call back from Jeff and he met me last night and nearly at the last minute just before he left he found the ring! WHAT A FEELING! My wife was ecstatic and I am getting it resized tomorrow. Jeff couldn’t be a better guy . . . ”
Ring search Trenton NJ
After doing my first ring search on Feb 14th i finely get around to joining the ring finders site on march 13th not even 12 hours after joining i receive a email about a lost wedding ring in Trenton NJ. Trenton is a 2 and a half hour drive for me but since it was a wedding ring a would give it a go. I replied to the email and Jimmy the rings owner calls me and we set up a time for me to meet him the next day. I leave my house early the next morning to get down there. I get on the new york state thruway 45 minutes into my trip traffic comes to a dead stand still the thruway was closed due to flooding we had the night before a Major rain storm. So i give jimmy a call and let him know i will be running late do to this. well after sitting there for a little over 2 hours they finally get one lane open but i still had to drive throw 2 and a half feet of water. finally after a little over 5 hours i get to the meeting place. The ring was lost on the on ramp to US1 a major highway. Thew area where Jimmy thinks the ring went out his window was about 100 yards long by 10 feet wide not a big area BUT heavily covered in trees and brush and to make it worse the area looked like a dump for any and every thing you could think of. We were joined by two other detectoristsfrom the PA area a vary nice lady named Betty and a man named Tom they are members of the Mid-Jersey research and recovery metal detecting club. The are was so hard to swing are detector that i ended up just using my pro pointer to search. Jimmy and I were searching a small area after we did a test throw with a test ring to get an idea of how his ring would have traveled. Jimmy was about 15 feet from me looking in the high weeds and all of a sudden i hear him start yelling I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT. Let me just say he looked like he was going to pass out he was so happy to find his ring. so after the drive from hell the day was ended on a high note by him finding him ring. below i is an email he sent to Chris Turner about the day then after that one is an email he sent me.
Chris….
WE FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much for your kindness, your responsiveness, and your offer to help because I know you didn’t have to. Beyond being “metal detectors,” people like you and Jason are good samaritansthat give people like me faith that there are people out there that choose to do nice things simply because it’s nice. Thank you for returning my emails and calls, for comforting me in my misery, and for reaching out to your community for me. Jason was an absolute ring finding superstar! He came from three hours away, through floodydangerous roads, and came prepared with information on how my ring would read on the detector and different theories about how it could have fallen. It was impressive. If ever there were a ring finding professional, he was it.
I am forever greatful to you, him, and the fact that I found you on the internet under “ring finders”.
Jimmy
For all of the misery of this weekend, the feeling of finding it was almost worth the losing it in the first place
Jason-
If ever there were a ring finding professional, you are it! Three hours away, through flooded roads, you still came. And when you came you came having put a ton of thought into my ring loss situation and fully prepared for the scenario. I am eternally grateful and happy to know there are people like you who do good things for other people they don’t even know just because it’s nice.
Having you out there on the freeway entrance ramp with me where I lost my ring gave me a peace of mind. Thanks again, God bless, and best of luck to you in the future.
Jimmy
My First ring search Bear mt. state park, Bear mountain NY
I found an lost and found ad posted by Chris Turner on a detecting forum i am on for a lost wedding ring about 45 mins from me. So i wrote to Chris asking about it Chris gave me a call and got all the details about it. But there was only one BIG problem Bear mt state park is illegal to hunt with a detector. I made a call to the administration office and asked about searching there for the lost ring and was granted permission to use my detector in a set area where the ring was lost. Then i call the owner of the ring MR. Kim. we set up to look for it the very next day valentines day. I get there a little before i am to meet with him so i can look around and to go get my permit for the hunt. MR. Kim meets me and we got to the area where he lost it. he lost it during a snow storm 5 day earlier. He was back to the spot a few time since he lost it to look he even went out and bought him own detector to look but was not able to find it. with in 5 minuts of us getting to the spot MR. Kim had his wedding ring back on his finger. this was my very first ring hunt and will always be one of my best detecting memories ever. To top it all of not only was it valentines day it was also the Chinese new years so his year had a GREAT start.
