Received a call today from a gentleman who lost his father’s gold ring while raking leaves. The ring has both intrinsic and sentimental value. Fortunately he had a pretty good idea where it was lost limiting the search area rather than the entire lawn. It only took about 10 minutes to find it, making us both happy.
I received a call from Neil after he called theringfinders.com. He was distraught after losing his white gold diamond wedding ring. As I was leaving the beach in Daytona, I told him I could be at his home in about two hours after a quick stop at mine. I prayed earnestly for guidance to help me find his ring.
When I arrived at Neil’s home in Oviedo, he took me to his front yard and explained that he had been playing with a dog when the ring went missing. He had checked his doorbell camera, which showed the ring at one point, but later, when he noticed it was gone, he was heartbroken—especially after fifteen years of wearing it.
I powered up my Minelab Manticore and began my search, covering the front yard and some hedges near the porch. I found several targets typical for a residential area, despite my efforts, the ring eluded me. After an hour of searching, I decided to switch to a smaller coil to navigate tighter spots and minimize background noise.
Starting at the edge of the grass by the driveway, I made my way to the sidewalk. Suddenly, I got a strong signal right at the sidewalk’s edge! As I set down my pinpointer, it sounded off, and to my amazement, a beautiful diamond ring rolled out from beneath a clump of grass, glimmering in the sunlight.
Neil was checking his phone for footage from the door camera when I held the ring up between us, saying, “I have a few more questions…” He looked up just in time to see the ring shining in my hand. His eyes widened in disbelief, and joy flooded his expression as I handed it back to him.
Joel called and said he believed he lost his family heirloom gold wedding ring while removing leaves from his yard. He said he got my phone number from theringfinders.com. I told him not to disturb the leaves that he bagged and do not rake any more leaves. I drove the 90 miles from Kerrville to Joel’s house in New Braunfels, Texas. Within 10 minutes I had recovered Joel’s ring slightly buried in the earth below a pile of leaves. Joel was ecstatic to have his ring back. Joel said he thought about renting or buying a metal detector but realized he wouldn’t know how to properly use it. Smart man Joel! Leave it to the experts, contact theringfinders.com when you lose you precious items.
I contacted Susan about a call about a lost platinum ring. She said she had lost it a week ago Monday, when staying at a friend’s home in Orlando, during the hurricane. Since we both live in New Smyrna we decided to ride over together. On the trip she told me that it was the only item that she has from her grandmother, which made it very dear.
When we arrived, I noticed a boxwood shrub circling the drive. This is where Susan said the ring was lost as she unloaded her car. The shrub was about 18 inches high with red rock in front and behind with other rows of higher shrubs behind that.
I spent the next two hours going over the hedge with my Manticore with the small head. I also covered in front and behind the hedge in the red rocks. There were lots of targets, but they were deep and not likely the ring. After a few hours I told Susan that I had covered everything I could think of, and we went home. Susan was devastated and said at least the ring had a gorgeous place to rest.
The next day I had an appointment to find another ring only 2.5 miles from Susan’s ring. I found it fast and texted the friend of Susan, to see if I could try again. I prayed on my way. I thought of an unconventional way to detect the short shrubs…It worked! I got a low but solid signal. Digging past the green, deep into the dead sticks and leaves with my pinpointer, it sounded off. Nestled in the leaves and sticks was the ring with its brilliant platinum shine!
I text Susan a picture of the ring and she called me. She was beyond excited. When I took the ring to my home, I found the engraving L. N. to A. R. S. 9/15/20…the ring was over 100 years old! Susan came to get the ring the next day…many tears of joy!
I’d like to thank my good friend and Christian brother for trusting me with this call while he was out of town.
Hurricane Milton ravaged Central Florida, coming in on the west coast and continuing across the state with torrential rain and destructive winds. Don was out in his back yard cleaning up debris. As he shook his hand after picking up leaves and muck, he felt his ring fly.
He looked and looked but knew with all the downed limbs and leaves…he needed help to find his wedding ring. He found theringfinders.com com and gave them a call. When I first contacted Don, I was out of town but arranged to meet him on Monday.
When I arrived at the Orlando home, Don led me to the back of his property, behind the pool and in a very dense part the yard with all types of tropical plants. He explained how he lost the ring and had looked extensively.
I grabbed my Minelab Maticore with the small coil and headed for the back. As I approached the area, I started getting hits from targets. Sometimes back yards can be tough. But as I got to the area, he lost the ring. There was only one large, clear hit. I dug through the sticks and leaves, and the ring popped out near the sand on the bottom of the pile.
It turned out to be a very short hunt and Don was elated to have his wedding ring back. Another theringfinder.com happy customer.
Faith was by the Shopping Centre, and was wandering around her car on the boulevard when she noticed her Engagement Ring was missing. Devastated and not wanting to tell her fiancé, she purchased a Metal Detector to try to locate it, after 2 hours she gave up. The Detector Salesman told her if you don’t find it, call this professional on The Ringfinders. That evening her fiancé knew something was wrong, and he got the information out of her. The next day she called me, and I responded right away to her location, after her story, I checked the area she suspected with no luck. The lost item often is not in the specific location they mark, so I gridded further out on the boulevard and found the Ring, restoring happiness to the engaged couple.
The Queen of the Castle’s Courtyard…..
…What started as a whole castle and carriage search for Jen’s missing ring ended up searching outside as well. The wax sealed letter revealed she wasn’t sure where to look but remembers that the day it went missing, she had been to a lot of places in and out of the castle and left no breadcrumb trail. After reading I realized this was no fairy tale. Crossing the moat and passing thru the gatehouse Jen assured me all defense mechanisms were disabled. I started my search of the great hall, kitchen, Queen’s chamber and with no enemies this castle had no dungeon(darn!). I used my MXT with wide search coil to search the smaller outer courtyard behind the castle where she had travelled to bring hors d’oeuvres to her guests and the children. No signals came thru. So, I went to the larger outer courtyard in front of the castle and started to walk around the perimeter of the castle with my dowsing rod to see if it would indicate an attraction of where to metal detect. As I started to pass the stone walkway leading to the spiked oak door and near a brick tower next to the inner courtyard Jen was previously preparing for high tea the dowsing rod pulled sharply to the right. I walked into the inner courtyard and took another sweep with the rod to see if the signal was coming from behind the castle walls, but the rod pulled to the right towards the brick tower. Looking thru the small pile of leaves and debris where the attraction was revealed Jen’s ring concealed next to the tower!! As she looked out from an upper chamber, I hailed her to come out. As she held her precious ring in her hand, she was amazed that it was found where it was. And now with peace restored in the kingdom, she can close this chapter of the book, take back the curse the course it took, and over high tea tell a better story of the glory!
It’s not really summer anymore but we are still blessed with beautiful weather and that means days on the beach. Jennifer and her husband of 15 years came down from Arkansas and had been enjoying Perdido Key when calamity struck. Jennifer had taken her Diamond wedding band off and put it in the cup holder of her chair. After several relocations of the chair to find the perfect spot, Jennifer found herself packing up with the realization that her ring was gone. She Google searched and found me and luckily I was already nearby. She wasn’t sure if it was in the water or on the beach so I started with the easy part first. I had just set up a grid search and only barely started to cover the area when I heard a tone that had to be gold. I gently scooped it up and smiled at Jennifer. She came running over and magically the vacation was saved. Congrats Jennifer, I’m very proud that I could help you. God Bless!
Andrea called me pretty frantic. She explained how her wedding ring set has 3 pieces and after returning from the gym she walked into her bedroom to prepare to shower. Before she was able to take her rings off, two of them just fell off her finger onto the floor next to the bed and nightstand. She was able to find one of the weddings bands and the other was still on her finger but her diamond engagement ring was nowhere to be found. She and her husband searched for an entire week even taking the bed and nightstand apart, still unable to find the ring. She said they were about to make an insurance claim but wanted to hire someone with expertise to search before making the insurance claim. I assured her that the ring did not vanish and we would find it. I arrived at her house with the tools needed to find her ring. Her bedroom floor was a laminate which would allow the ring to bounce. Within 2-3 minutes I was able to find her ring wedged into one of the nightstand legs. The ring was not in plain sight to the naked eye and somehow when the ring fell off her finger it bounced off the floor and under the nightstand, then wedged into the corner of the nightstand leg which had a wood support about 3″ off the floor. Her husband started that he had taken everything out of the nightstand and turned the entire nightstand over searching of the ring. She was so excited that it was found she asked if she can hug me, then her husband asked to hug me also.
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