Back on February 18th, 2025, I received the following message from Jared.
“Hi there, I messaged another page but wasn’t sure if it was the right one. I was knocking down some icicles and it must have slipped off and landed in the snow. Hoping to get your help”!
I replied,
“Hi Jared, So sorry to hear this.
Is it a ring that was lost?
When did this happen?
What town or city did this happen in”?
Jared explained that he had just lost his Platinum Wedding Ring, that very afternoon. I told Jared I would be happy to help and we agreed that I would be out, first thing, in the morning, to his home, in Sanford, Maine.
I arrived promptly at 9:00am and Jared showed me where he was standing, while throwing a boot up to and breaking the icicles off the front of his house. He was certain, the ring would be along the house or front lawn. The snow was extremely deep in the areas, where the ring would have been. I trodded through the deep snow, with my metal detector, in the front and side of the house. Absolutely nothing close to being a platinum ring was detected. I then searched the driveway that also had snow and ice. Still no ring. After an hour and I half, I told Jared that the snow was just to deep, in the areas he thought the ring would be and that I would come back, once the snow had receded or melted.
On March 8th I sent a message to Jared, how the snow was looking, at his house. He told me that the snow was melting but still significant, along the front of the house. He told me probably be much better in two weeks.
So, the next week I messaged him again and he told me about 4 inch of snow remained on the ground. We then agreed that I would go back to his home on Wednesday, March 19th and search the area again. I also told him, I would be bringing my friend, Gary Hill, to help search the area. With two of us, we would be able to search all around the house, on the outside chance, the ring flew up onto the roof and down the other side, into the backyard. You just never know and I wanted to cover all the bases, as the saying goes.
Gary and I arrived and we talked to Jared again, about the events leading up to him losing his ring. He was throwing the boot, up towards the icicles, underhanded and was certain the ring would be in the front of the house, as he wasn’t throwing the boot, with full force. The snow was all gone, except a few small spots, that I shoveled. Gary and I searched along the house, sides of the house and the backyard of the house. No ring was found. We also removed flower boxes, from their holder and searched them. We looked in and under all the bushes. Still no ring. It was mentioned and asked, if the ring could have been on the other side of the driveway, in the wooded area. I didn’t think it was possible because that would place the ring, 30 or 40 feet in the opposite direction, that the boot was being thrown. But as I thought about it, was it possible the ring landed in the side driveway and then plowed up into the snowbank, that was still partially there? Unlikely, but possible. So Gary and I started on opposite ends of the driveway and started searching. No ring found on the driveway side of the snow bank. We then moved to the backside of the snow bank, approaching the wooded area. Less than a minute, on the backside, I heard a faint signal and when I looked up in front of my coil, I saw a ring. I couldn’t believe it. I took a few photos, of the ring, as I found it, in the grass, just inches from the snow bank. I had Gary go get Jared to see exactly where the ring was found. Jared was extremely happy the ring was found and couldn’t believe it was found on the backside of the snow bank. The only plausible explanation is the snowplow had plowed it, up into the very large snow bank, back in February. We will never know for sure how it ended up there but it doesn’t matter. Jared has his ring back and he genuinely thanked Gary and I for our persistence.
So fortunate to be able to help people like Jared out, in their time of need. Another smile for the books😁❤️🙏
It was the day before Valentines. A Wisconsin snowstorm found Milwaukee resident Tim Sobie, blowing snow from his driveway and sidewalk. That was when his unique cobalt wedding ring went missing. Despite his best search efforts Tim was forced to wait until the snow had thawed before resuming his search. Despite his best efforts, however, the ring was nowhere to be seen.
Just a few swings into the search a clean, high 50’s-signal begged further investigation. Buried under some leaves and grass, Tim’s precious wedding ring appeared. And the smile on Tim’s face tells the rest of the story. 
