- Land/Shallow Water Search
Doug Hardy
Cost For My Service
My services are on a reward basis, which means you pay what your lost item is worth to you and what you can afford. I do have a $25 call-out fee to cover my travel expenses to get to you. No call-out fee for police, fire, or EMS personnel. The price for an insurance or estate search would be negotiable.
Search Types
Lost rings, jewelry, keys, and any lost metallic valuables. I can search yards, local parks, farm fields, old home sites, athletic fields, gardens etc. I can also search water to about waist-deep.
Search Locations
Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Garner, Butner, Oxford, Morrisville, Hillsborough, and surrounding areas.
Doug Hardy's Bio
I’ve been in North Carolina for about 45 years (so far) and my wife and I have been married for more than 30 of those years. I’ve been detecting for about 7 years now and for 5 years, I was president of our local metal detecting club, Triangle Relic Recovery. I’m a retired IT director and try to take advantage of my retired status to get out and detect whenever I can. I’ve recovered all sorts of jewelry items for people and love being able to reconnect people with their lost items.
If you’re curious about what’s below the surface on your property. All properties have a history, so let’s figure out yours! If you’ve lost an item, give me a call – I’ll put in the time and effort to recover it for you.
Doug Hardy - Recent Blog Post
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Gold Wedding Ring Recovered in Chapel Hill (2026)
Lorrie, a very nice woman in Chapel Hill, contacted me about finding her late husband’s wedding ring. Since he passed three years ago, she had been wearing the ring on her index finger. Although she had been very diligent about always knowing where the ring was, it had gone missing and she was heartbroken. She […]
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Lost Car Keys Recovered in Chapel Hill (2026)
Susan, a woman in Chapel Hill, called me and explained that she wanted my help in locating a set of car keys. I asked the basic questions – where, when, how, etc. and it unfolded like this: Her son drove to a friend’s house to help move some downed tree branches from where they fell, […]
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Lost Item Recovered in Holly Springs (2026)
I got a call from Bill, a nice gentleman in Holly Springs who had lost a hearing aid while collecting and moving brush and sticks. Bill’s house sits next to a pond and twice each day, the gnats come out to pester anyone in the backyard. Bill was working with gloves on, and in one […]
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Wedding Ring Recovered in Clayton (2026)
I got a text from Seth, telling me that he had just lost his wedding ring – that’s the usual part. The *UN*usual part is that he and his wife have been married almost two years and they’ve just now finally paid off the rings. Yikes! What a time to lose the ring! We made […]
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Platinum Ring Recovered in Holly Springs (2026)
I got a call from Kanti, a very nice woman who had lost her ring. The house where she lost it was getting new tenants the next day, so there was a significant time crunch to get it recovered before the tenants started their move-in. She went back to the house that evening to look […]
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