Lost ring Cape May NJ, FOUND! By Ring Finder Jeffrey Laag


Item recovered June 19, 2025.
Jennifer called me about a gold ring she had lost while in her pool. The ring was her father’s wedding ring and it is slightly too large for her finger. It has come off before and they have always been able to find it, until this time.
She was sure it had to be somewhere in her back yard. While she didn’t feel it come off her hand, she knew she had it on when they got into the pool and she noticed it was missing when they got out. They had searched inside the above-ground pool thoroughly they were confident it wasn’t there. They had also walked around the pool visually searching and couldn’t see it. Jennifer went even further and ordered a metal detector from Amazon. She tried searching and while it was making noises, she wasn’t able to distinguish what those noises meant, but more importantly, she wasn’t able to locate the ring.
I met up with Jennifer at her house later that day. She had a matching ring (her mom’s wedding ring) that was slightly smaller that I was able to scan for a reference. I was surprised to see a vdi of an 82 on my Deus 2. Normally the gold rings I find are in the range of 60-70.
I noticed there was quite a bit of interference with my detector in their back yard and needed to lower the sensitivity to quiet the machine. I knew if the ring was in the yard, it would be on top of the soil and it wouldn’t need the machine to be searching deep.
All set – I started my way around the pool, searching 10-15 feet from the edge of the pool as being the most likely place it would have flown. About 2/3 of the way around the pool there was a very nice sound with a vdi of 85. Normally this would be a zinc penny range, but because I knew the missing ring would be higher, I had a good feeling this would be the ring I was searching for. Sure enough, it was the missing ring hiding below the grass!


Item recovered June 9, 2025.
I received a text message from Julia about a bracelet that was lost the day prior in a field while playing soccer with friends. It was not an organized match, but rather a group of friends having fun and getting some exercise.
The bracelet belonged to a friend of Julia’s and he realized it was missing after the match had ended. Everyone spread out about the field to search for the missing bracelet, but it was a disorganized search. Everyone was tired and it was getting dark. Julia went home and started thinking of how she could help her friend find his bracelet, when she found my info on the ringfinders website.
I met Julia at the field after work the following day, She brought me a bottle of water and some freshly-baked snickerdoodle cookies to help me with the search! We were off to a fantastic start and I felt confident we were going to locate this bracelet.
Julia showed me the area where they were playing. We marked off the corners of the area and began a grid search, with Julia walking beside me, searching with her eyes as I was scanning with my metal detector.
We made several passes and found a few pieces of foil. I got another one of those foil sounds and when we stopped to investigate, Julia had located the bracelet directly in front of her, near the spot where I had my signal!
While my detector didn’t uncover this missing item, setting up an organized search with fresh eyes on a sunny afternoon was the recipe for success in recovering this bracelet.
When I got back to my truck, I celebrated with some warm cookies and a cold bottle of water!



This nice lady lost her beautiful wedding ring in the woods across the street from her home. But she wasn’t sure where. I searched using a detector with a small coil so I could check in weeds, brush and around trees. It took about an hour to find it in some weeds it fell into, out of sight, next to a pine tree. The detector was telling me right where it was but I couldn’t see it. It had fallen down to soil level in a tight clump of weeds. She couldn’t believe I found if. I wa happy too because it could have been anywhere. It was quite different from a beach search.

Found this ring while looking for another. Asked around and heard of a fellow who lost a ring about two week before. Was able to get his name and contact him for a return. He sent me a picture of his lost ring and that is indeed the one I found. Ring was mailed back to him. Some times we just get lucky.
Received a text from a past customer that his wife bad lost her silver ring (AGAIN)!
He asked me if I could come and find it today, I said yes and headed out.
l arrive and was told he put her on his shoulders and was spinning her around and around many times fast and it flew off her finger and into some vines and briars. It flew about 30 feet!!
I turn on and set up my machine to find silver and luckily it was on the farthest side from the direction it flew off. It was only about 2.5 feet into the vines.
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Ring count for 2025: 121 (15 – recoveries)
GOLD – 17 (8 – recoveries)
GOLD/SILVER – 1 (1 – recovery)
PLATNIUM – 2 (2 – recoveries)
SILVER – 33 (4 – recoveries)
VINTAGE – 2
JUNK – 66
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Sara was vacationing at Ft. Walton Beach Florida when she lost her wedding rings. She was able to find the wedding band but not the engagement ring. She had returned home to Illinois when she called asking if I could find her lost ring. She sent me an aerial with an outline of the area she lost it and a photo of her engagement ring. The next morning i searched the area and found her ring within 8 or 10 feet of where she predicted but was 5 or 6 inches deep. The next day Sara and I did a face time call with the folks at my local UPS store and sent her ring home secure, insured and with in person delivery. Sara was very happy her ring is back where it belongs!
Item recovered May 29, 2025.
Sometimes, when searching for people’s items, other lost items are located in the process. However, it can be very difficult locating the person who belongs to the lost item if they aren’t actively seeking help asking for its return.
This recovery started while I was searching for a lost necklace for someone on Pass-a-Grille beach. I was unsuccessful in my search for the necklace, but I did find my first ever Oura smart ring. The ring was not charged, and I didn’t own a charger that would power it up. I was hoping I could connect my phone to it through Bluetooth to see if I could get any information on the owner.
As it turns out, another local detectorist recently returned an Oura smart ring, so I reached out to find how how he was able to accomplish this. He pointed me in the direction of Oura’s customer service department, who often assists with the return of their rings to their owners.
Inside the ring contains a barcode, which required a special program to read. By deciphering the barcode, you acquire the ring’s id number which can be provided to Oura’s customer service department. They took my information and provided it to the owner to contact me.
Tim called me the same day and was shocked that not only was his ring found, but that it was going to be returned to him! He lost the ring just one day prior in the water and thought he lost it forever.
Tim had already returned home to the Chicago area, so I promptly packaged the ring and mailed it to him the same day. It took 4-5 days for the ring to arrive, and he texted me a photo of him wearing the ring and he was thrilled to have it back!

Item recovered May 5, 2025.
Brooke was enjoying a beautiful day at Honeymoon Island with her family on April 24th. They were set up on the North Beach, far back from the water in the powder sand that had been recently placed post hurricane nourishment.
Along for the trip were the ashes of her pet dog Lilly who had recently passed. The ashes were contained in a heart-shaped charm on a stainless steel necklace. The necklace was removed to apply sunscreen and placed in the cup holder in the folding chair.
When it was time to go home, Brooke folded up her chair and walked back to the car, but forgot she had placed the necklace in the cup holder! She went back to the area where she was sitting, but it was getting dark and could not locate the necklace.
Brooke reached out on May 3rd to a for help locating the necklace to another ring finder who was out of town. The information was passed to me and I set up a search in the morning as soon as the park opened.
My plan was to detect from the parking lot to the area where they were sitting, then grid the area. I made my way to the area where they were sitting without finding the necklace. On the 3rd pass of the grid search in the area where they were sitting, I got a signal, looked down and saw the necklace sitting in the sand!
I immediately snapped some photos and reached out to Brooke to let her know that her necklace was found. Because Brooke lived over an hour away, we arranged a time the following week to meet back at Honeymoon Island to return the necklace.

