Lost sentimental silver pendant and necklace Recovered, Klinger Lake, White Pigeon, Michigan
Diana contacted me to inquire if it was possible that I could search for a lost, very sentimental necklace for her, in Klinger Lake. She explained that her son and friends were playing basketball in the lake at their dock last night. One of the friend’s had been given a necklace by his father, who had passed away soon after.
We made arrangements for a search in the morning. I arrived, met with Diana and found out there was a pendant involved and that was actually the sentimental item ( a guardian angel pendant). So the necklace and pendant, somewhere in about 4-5 feet of water, somewhere within about a 50 by 50ft area.
Began the search, started finding the typical items, coins, bolts, washers, nuts, pull tabs and within aobut 10 minutes the pendant (marked 925, they were unsure of what either were made of). I got out, took a photo of the pendant and sent it to Diana.
A few of the boys had woken up now and came to see how I was doing. I let them know I found the pendant and they said the boy that lost it would be very happy I’d recovered it.
So now the necklace, which can sometimes be invisible to detectors. Not knowing what it was made of, I just started scooping every type of signal I heard. Pretty much cleaned up their swim area of foot hazards. About a half hour had passed, they said the pendant was the main thing and to just call it good. I asked if I could just try one more sweep around where the pendant was, they said sure. Got a faint whisper of a signal, got the pinpointer to it, grabbed a handful from the bottom and long behold, the necklace in my hand (could see where a link pulled apart).
Diana came down to check on everything, thanked me and said it’ll be a few minutes for the boy to thank me, because he was in tears still, holding the pendant.
I gathered my things, walked back up the sets of stairs to get to my vehicle and the boy that lost it came to say thanks. I could tell it was highly sentimental and was glad to have found it for them.
On my way home from work I received a text from Habib. He was very anxious to see if I would be able to find his wife’s beautiful diamond earing she accidentally lost at a large family party the day before. He sent me some pics and I was relieved to see the size, due to the fact many diamond earrings are extremely hard to locate. We agreed on a mutual time to meet later in the day, and for him to bring the other earing so I would be able to scan it with my metal detector, which helps tremendously, knowing exactly what tone to listen for. With that information I am able to block out most of the other tones I will receive in a backyard setting. Once on location I met with a gentleman who showed me the entire party setup, and the main areas Saba, Habib’s wife had spent most of the time that day. I decided to begin the search, as Habib was going to be about another 15 minutes due to some heavy traffic. I had quickly covered an area where the tables were set up, especially where Saba was sitting. The yard area was quite huge, and there were many food stations, and activities going on throughout the day. Once Habib arrived I listened to the other earring, and was quite pleased with the solid low tone it gave off. With that information I was able to move quite a bit faster, due to the fact that not may signals of that type would be present. I of course would check anything fairly close. I had changed direction after the first location was done, simply due to the fact the foot traffic would be moving in the direction I was working. I made one pass, and just after I turned to make another one, BINGO, my metal detector emitted a tone that I was almost certain was Saba’s missing earing. After moving the grass around a bit, there it was pressed down even with the dirt, just out of human sight. Luckily there was no damage to the earing. I looked around to find Habib, and he had walked way over to the neighbors house, where there was valet parking, and another possible area the earring could have been hiding. When I showed Saba’s earing to him, he was it total shock, as this recovery could be labeled “a needle in a haystack” Once again all parties involved knew the tiny details to narrow down this vast search area, to just the areas where his wife had spent most of the day.
