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Lost Gold Ring Found in Northville Michigan

  • from Detroit (Michigan, United States)
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He Spiked it to Win It….

But during a short break to celebrate, Santhosh noticed his gold ring missing. With the court due back is session shortly for a final game, he sat out of bounds and called me. I arrived and both teams relocated to another court to allow me full access to search where Santhosh was playing. Grid searching with my MXT metal detector with the bigfoot coil covered the ground fast. As I closed in on an area near the net I got a nice clear signal. Reaching down thru the grass revealed Santhosh’s gold ring. Holding it up in victory his family came running to see it. Even tho his team lost without him, he felt recovering his ring was the “set” of a lifetime!

Jonathan

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Lost Gold Ring Found on the Beach in Monroe Michigan

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Where the Water Meets the Sand……

Was the partial voicemail left by Haida who texted next that she and a friend were picking up beach shells and driftwood when her ring fell off her finger. It was a very special ring, one that her sister had just presented to her for graduation. Getting too dark to search further, she went home and was hoping that her sister didn’t notice the ring missing. We met the next morning and Haida with her friend relocated where they remembered being. I noticed patterns on the sand where the tides gently rolled across the sand overnight. I began a grid search with my MXT metal detector at the water’s edge. Working in towards shore I sank into the sand almost a foot deep, it was very loose with rough edged granules. Getting a good signal, I started to sift thru the sand with my pin-pointer metal detector and felt it buzz next to my hand. Slowly bringing the scoop of sand up Haida’s ring revealed itself! Haida and her friend were up on solid ground with their backs turned so I just stood there holding the ring up. When they turned around, I never saw anyone run as fast to get their ring! Thinking it was lost forever Haida was extremely happy that it wasn’t, and now she’ll always stay in good standing with her sister through every high and low tide.

Jonathan

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Man’s Tungsten Wedding Band Lost on the Beach – Found in the Wet Sand and Returned, Cherry Grove SC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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On Monday, September 22nd and a little after noon, I received the following text, “Hey Jim Wren, My name is Michael, and I lost my wedding ring while at North Myrtle Beach this weekend. Based on photos, I know I lost it at some point yesterday before 1:30pm but I had it that morning around 9am in some family photos – we then went to church, back to the place we stayed and then out to the beach…Idk if it’s in the sand or the water but I hadn’t gone past that shore for a bucket of water or anything by the time the first photo shows it missing. This time I can’t remember taking it off my finger but the day before I did and put it in a bag pocket and I checked the few places I would’ve put it and can’t find it. It’s kinda broken so it may be separated or in one piece. It says “Rocio 3/19/22” on the inside.” Michael also sent a map showing where he stayed and where he suspected the loss happened. He also texted, “I had stayed here and went to this beach access straight up the road.” I called him and didn’t get a response but did get a text that he was in a business meeting. He called a little bit later and I got a few more details. I asked him if he had any pictures that might give me a better idea of where he lost it. Just prior to me leaving, Michael sent me a picture showing a perfect view of the area of loss from the ocean to the back of the resort.

I arrived to the beach about an hour before how tide, so I had the opportunity to search from mid-tide to the low tide line. I started a grid line search from the north side of the resort and worked perpendicular to the beach. I had my Equinox 800 and knew a Tungsten Ring would ring up in the 15-18 VDI (visual display indicator) range. I was probably on my 8th line when I got a strong 15 on the VDI. I dug a scoop of sand out and checked the hole. I had the target in the scoop, so I dumped the scoop on the beach and spread the sand out with my foot. I ran the coil over the sand and hit the target, looked down and saw his ring. I picked his ring up and gave it a good look to see if it was broken like he mentioned. The ring looked in one piece to me. I also ran the coil back over the hole and the spread-out sand to double check and make sure there was nothing else. I made a quick video showing Michael the area I searched and then raised his ring up in view of the camera saying, “I found it.” I also sent the picture showing his ring and letting him know the engraving matched. I called him and he asked about the ring being in 1 piece. I told him it was, but I really hadn’t understood what he was talking about. I looked at the picture he originally sent and finally saw the bottom piece of the ring that had been in the picture. I told him that I’d go back out the next day and search for the bottom piece. On the way home I got his ring in the mail and on its way. When I got back the next day, I did a complete grid search from the north end to the south end of the resort and from the mid tide line to the water and didn’t have any luck.

Michael – Thank you for trusting me to help find your lost treasure. I wish all the best to you and your family.

Jim

   

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Lost Gold Ring Found in Highland Michigan

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Tales of The Gold Lion…….

Began many years ago when Brandon’s grandfather purchased his wedding ring while active in the military. Back home in the Detroit area he was employed at an iron/steel processing plant. The ring survived being well travelled and subject to intense heat and was eventually passed to Brandon’s dad who travelled for business. At this point the ring had travelled thousands of miles and was given to Brandon after his father passed. Brandon chose to be a bit different and only wore the ring to special occasions. How nice, he thought if his father could have seen him wear the ring. Brandon’s son was of the age of knowing about the ring, so Brandon decided at an important family gathering to let him wear it. But somewhere while playing with his cousins the ring disappeared. Brandon was worried and questioned: Would this be the last tale told of the ring? On the phone I told Brandon that hunting for a gold metal lion was the only safari I was interested in! Setting up my MXT metal detector I started to grid search the area where the kids remembered roughhousing it in the grass. As I scanned the detector coil over the grass, I heard a huge ROAR in my headphones! Reaching down thru the grass I saw the face of a lion staring back at me! Brandon came running over and I told him this is as close as I want to get to a real lion! His son quickly followed, and I let him try the metal detector on the ring which he thought was really cool. Ahhhh yes, the tales of treasure lost, and treasure found…… another tale of the gold lion! What other tales of the gold lion will be told? Only time will tell.

Jonathan

 

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14K Yellow Gold Wedding Band Lost in Resort Parking Garage, Found and Returned Myrtle Beach SC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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This search started on Sunday Sept. 14, 2025, just before 4 pm with a text from Cody saying, “Hi Jim, I found your number on a metal detecting page. We just stayed at Sands Resort this weekend and my wife put her ring in our backpack cooler for safe keeping. When we went to put our beach wagon back in the car, we dumped out the sand. The backpack cooler never left the wagon and her ring was gone. We can only imagine we dumped it out in the parking deck. I was wondering if this would be something you could help with. We are 4 hours away. I called the number attached to the text message and got a few more details from Cody. One of the things he told me was the ring was a yellow gold wedding band that was part of a set, but this was just the wedding band that was lost. He said they were parked on the 5th level and 2 parking spaces to the left, directly across from the elevator. He also mentioned that they had left to go back home about 8 am that day. I’m thinking that our tourist season is winding down and there should be fewer guests at the resort.  I also thought there was a pretty good chance of finding his wife, Desiree’s wedding band. I told him I’d go a little later and would let him know when I was on my way.

About 7:30 pm I sent him a text saying, “On my way.” Since this was going to be strictly a visual search, I grabbed a flashlight and a small fan rake. The rake was in case I had to reach under a car if that’s where the ring was. I got to the resort about 8 pm and needed a parking card to get into the parking lot. I had to go in and explain what was going on to the front desk clerk and she gave me a card to park. As I’m driving through the maze of the parking garage, I’m noticing the first 3 levels of parking were completely full. Not what I was hoping for. When I got to level 5, it was almost empty of cars. I parked 1 spot to the right of the elevator and walked over to the elevator to make sure I was on the 5th level. There was a car parked in the 3rd spot, left of the elevator, but they left after I started looking around with the flashlight. I checked the 1st and 2nd spot and saw nothing. So, as usual when I can’t find what I’m looking for in the area it’s supposed to be in, I expand my search out. I looked out to the 6th spot on the left with no luck, so I started back to the right. As I’m getting ready to move my car, I glanced over on the 2nd spot to the right of the elevator and noticed a small object. As I walked over to it, Bingo, there was her ring just lying on the ground. I took a picture of me holding her ring and one of just the ring and sent it to him. In the text I said, “Cody, you need to go buy you a lottery ticket, now.” He immediately responded, “Brother you are a gift!!!” I called him telling him where I found it. He was positive it should have been on the left of the elevator. So, we’re thinking it either got kicked, flung out of the cooler or possibly rolled over to where it was. How it got to where it was, we’ll never know, but I was glad it did. I asked him to send me his name and address so I could get it in the mail tomorrow, Monday. He and Desiree were very excited to be getting it back.

They got the ring back on Thursday and I got the picture of Desiree and her big smile on Saturday.

Cody – thank you for calling me to help find Desiree’s treasure.

Jim

 

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Lost Gold Ring Found in Madison Heights Michigan

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Oh Snap! We’re in a Pickle Here….

Exclaimed Dan to his wife when he noticed his ring missing as they were pulling weeds in their vegetable garden. The weeds were being thrown in every direction, so Dan stressfully said he didn’t know what direction the ring went. I started metal detecting farther out near the fence then started to work my way in towards the garden while Dan paced back and forth. Swinging the metal detector coil over the vegetables I got a familiar signal and meter reading. Pin-pointing with my Garrett carrot I moved some dirt aside and asked Daniel, hey how did 14 karats get down here? He said, what? and came running over. Reaching down he had a nice smile planted on his face and said that I really knew how to root out a problem while remaining cool as a cucumber! I answered,,,keep calm and karat on!

Jonathan

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Lost Tungsten Ring Found in Dexter Michigan

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Fast-Forwarding……

From the summer of 2024 to summer of 2025, Austin found it hard to believe that the year had passed so quickly. While him and the family enjoyed the new house, it was time to move again but around a year ago his wedding ring went missing. With 2 weeks left to vacate the house he often paused-rewound-replayed the events over the last year musing over where it may be. When I arrived, he had 2 locations he had a good vibe about. One was in an area where he was picking up the children’s toys for the winter and the other was in the neighbor’s yard while he was helping them install rabbit fence around a garden. I selected Track 1- “toys” and started grid searching with my MXT metal detector but all I heard was hissing/popping/crackle sounds thru my headphones from bad ground. Selecting Track 2 “rabbit fence” I started to metal detect the area and got a sweet-sounding tone thru the headphones. Digging down an inch revealed that the sweet melodious tune I heard was from Austin’s tungsten ring! As he reached down to pick up the ring, he was thrilled that we cued up the right track and it wasn’t just his imagination.

Jonathan

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Lost Platinum Ring w/Diamonds Found in Ann Arbor Michigan

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Barking Up the Wrong Tree…..

While Josh was walking his dogs down a trail, the dog leashed to his right hand bolted after a squirrel that zoomed across the trail. Taken by surprise, the force pulled Josh’s balance off and he fell to the ground. The leash came off his wrist and the dog raced to the tree jumping up and down convinced the squirrel was still around. Meanwhile, Josh managed to get to his feet and got control over the other dog who wanted in on the action. Finally, the 3 of them continued on the trail. A few hundred feet was travelled when Josh noticed his ring missing. Going back to the area where the melee occurred, he couldn’t see his ring, and with dusk setting in they went back to the car. I started a grid search with my MXT metal detector where Josh remembered the incident had taken place. Checking both sides of the trail revealed nothing but as I got near the base of the tree, I got a good signal, and by the sound and meter number could only mean on thing,,,,Josh’s ring! When he reached down and picked it up, we recalled how bummed out the dog must have felt about not getting the squirrel, but Josh was seriously happy that we were on the right trail and got to the root of the real matter!

Jonathan

 

 

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Broken Sprinkler Solenoid Buried in the Ground, Found in Calabash, NC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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On Wednesday, Sept 10, 2025, I got a phone call from Jeff, owner of JDs Detectors, saying he had a gentleman, Kenneth in the store wanting to rent a metal detector. Jeff said Kenneth was trying to find a broken sprinkler solenoid in his yard. Jeff told Kenneth that instead of renting a detector to contact me to help. Kenneth agreed and said he’d call me the next day to set up a time for Friday. Thursday, when Kenneth called, we set up a time of 8 am on Friday.

Friday morning as I pulled into the driveway, Kenneth was coming out of his garage with a bag of mulch. We met and he walked me to the area where the solenoid was buried. He installed the sprinkler system himself, so he pretty much knew where the solenoid was. I turned on the Equinox 800 and tested the replacement solenoid. I had to make sure I could detect either the wire or the screws holding the plastic unit together. I had to switch the detector mode to park 2 but it came through loud and clear. I turned around, took a couple of steps and hit it. Kenneth took the red flag he had and as he stuck it in the ground, he made contact with the solenoid. He was going to dig it up a little later and replace it. So, unfortunately the only picture I got was the red flag sticking out of the ground me pointing to the flag in the ground.

Kenneth – Thank you for calling and letting me help find your solenoid.

Jim

 

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Citadel Ring Lost in the Ocean, Found and Returned Myrtle Beach SC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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This Citadel Ring search started on Sep 9th, 2025, just before 3 pm when I got a text message from Anna Grace saying, “Hello Jim, I found your info on Ring Finders. My husband just lost his Citadel ring in the surf about 18 inches deep. We are vacationing at the Myrtle Beach Travel Park. If you felt like you had the time to help us look, we would really appreciate it, but honestly it could be gone forever.” I took a quick look at the tide table and saw that low tide was in 30 minutes. I called Anna Grace and got a few more details and told her I was on my way. I also ask her to send me the address, which she did.

I arrived in less than 15 minutes and met Anna Grace’s husband, Taylor at the street entrance. I followed him to the house where they were staying. I parked my car and jumped into his golf cart and headed for the beach. When we got to the beach, I asked Taylor what the north and south boundaries were in relation to where he was. I started at the north boundary and did a perpendicular to the beach, east/west grid search out to about thigh to hip deep. I had my Equinox 800 and knew, from another Citadel ring search I had about a week ago, that I’d be looking for a 20/21 number on the VDI (visual display indicator). I got one target, which turned out to be a pull tab. When I reached the southern boundary, I stayed out in waist deep water and worked a parallel grid search working my way towards shore. I didn’t get any signals on that search. So, I decided to start over and extend both north and south boundaries and went back to an east/west grid search. As I started at the southern boundary, I was watching Taylor as I searched and I could tell by his body language, he was losing hope. Got to the end of the north side and kept going. By now the tide had turned and I was now in waist to almost chest deep water. As I started my second or third turn back out in the water – BA BOOM!!! I looked at the numbers and there was the 20-21 I was looking for. I knew I had Taylor’s ring. I took a scoop of sand and washed it out in the surf and heard the clang of a ring inside the scoop. I looked in and saw his beautiful ring at the bottom of the scoop. I looked at Taylor and nodded towards shore. I wasn’t going to keep him in suspense any longer and stopped knee deep and held the scoop up so he could see inside. He saw his ring, reached in and grabbed it and confirmed the engraving on the inside of the ring. His body language changed quickly. We rode back up to the house and Anna Grace came out and was so excited. I love putting smiles back on the faces and getting an item back where it belongs.

Taylor and Anna Grace – Thank you for allowing me to help find Taylor’s lost treasure. Have a safe trip home and I wish you two all the best.

Jim

 

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