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Four rings lost and found at Popham Beach State Park in Popham, Maine

  • from Rockport (Maine, United States)
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I was referred by fellow Ring Finder Dennis Boothby to Kimberly who had lost 4 rings while vacationing at Popham Beach, and had already returned home to Pennsylvania. When I was initially contacted one the rings had been found in the sand and turned into the Park Ranger. I travelled to the site without optimism as a week had passed and the rings being on a public beach could have easily been found by another detectorist. After about 30 minutes of searching I recovered the rings in the general vicinity of where Kimberly had reported them being lost. I made the phone call to report my success which was well received with a joyous and tearful response.

 

 

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Diamond Stud Earring Lost in the Dry Sand, Found and Returned Ocean Isle Beach, NC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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On 7/29/25 just before noon, I got a call from Nancy saying she had lost a Diamond Stud Earring on the beach and wondered if I could help find it. My first question was if it was lost in the dry sand. She responded it was. I only have one detector that can find stud earrings, my Gold Bug 2, and it’s useless in wet sand or the ocean because of the mineralization. Plus, there’s just a small post on stud earrings and it’s usually not enough metal for most detectors. So, I felt we had a good chance of finding her earring. I was just finishing up my yard work and told her I could be there in about 45 minutes. She agreed. Enroute to the beach, I called her asking if I could park in her driveway. Parking isn’t easy on the beach communities. She sent me her address and directions out to the beach to where she was.

When I arrived, it was a quick walk out to the beach to where Nancy was set up. She showed me the area. She explained that a bug was on her ear and when she went to brush it away, she hit her ear and the earring flew off. Before I got started, I asked if she had the other earring that I could test. She did, which made it a lot easier. I tweaked the Gold Bug detector and started searching a 5×5 foot plus area. To help me sift the sand, I brought along a child’s sand sifter with tiny holes. I got a few targets that turned out to be very tiny pieces of aluminum. I must have tested her other earring 4-5 times to make sure I was able to detect it. Finally, I got a signal that was good enough to check out. I laid down in the sand, ran the sifter under the small area and filled up the sifter with sand. I started feeling through the sand and uncovered Nancy’s earring. I was as shocked as Nancy was when I handed her earring back. She told me that her husband had gotten her those earrings when they were in Grad school and before they got married. She also said how they were very sentimental and special to her.

Nancy – Thank you for allowing me to help find your lost treasure. Enjoy the rest of your vacation.

Jim

 

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Men’s gold wedding band lost- Pompton Plains NJ driving range

  • from Mahwah (New Jersey, United States)
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Alex, married just one year was with his wife at the driving range. He put his wedding ring in his pocket because it affected his swing. Returning to his car, he pulled out his keys, and inadvertently out came his ring. They both searched the area on their hands and knees, and were distraught. Anxiously as soon as they return home at 11 pm, Alex reached out to me. Although I was going on vacation the next day I met him when the range opened the next morning. His worries were soon over. I recovered his cherished wedding ring from a grassy section leading to the parking area. He was overcome with happiness and immediately gave me a big hug. This made my day and my wife was happy too.

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Ring Saved at P.F.Hoffmaster Park, Norton Shores, MI

  • from Holland (Michigan, United States)
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Received a referral from Tom T, fellow ringfinder, he was busy and gave it to me. Matt and family were on vacation and camping at the park this week. Met him at the park this morning and we had a long walk from the camping area to the beach where they were playing in about knee deep water. He had marked the spot with a log placed up behind on the sand dune. In about 30 minutes I found the ring about 25 steps from shore. Married for 15 years and we saved the day and the vacation memories.

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Platinum and diamond ring found in Elgin, Il.

  • from Rockford (Illinois, United States)
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Shortly after getting home from work (Monday) I received a phone call from Jennie inquiring if I still do ring searches. I assured her that I most definitely do, do ring searches. She told me the story about how over the weekend, on Saturday, she was at her sister’s house for a pool party in their new swimming pool. She said that she was getting ready to get into the pool to cool off since the temperatures were in the low 90’s that day! She took off a pair of shorts and layed them on the trampoline. She then, took her platinum and diamond engagement ring off, and put it in one of the pockets of the shorts for safe keeping.  Later, when she got out of the pool and went to retrieve her shorts is when she noticed that her shorts had been moved from where she originally set them down. She immediately searched the pockets looking for her precious ring. To her horror, her ring was missing! She and her entire family immediately started searching for the missing ring. They tried everything from diving to the bottom of the pool with goggles on in search of it, to going out and buying a metal detector the next day and searching for it with that! Still without finding it. Running out of options and hope, Jennie grabbed her phone and searched “Ring Finder”. That’s when The Ring Finders .com popped up! Jennie then searched her local area and found me there. After reading some past return stories and reviews from my happy clients, is when she decided to call me. I told her that I could be there in a half hour or so, I just needed to gather my things and I’d be on my way. After arriving a short time later, Jennie and her sister met me outside. After a short introduction I grabbed my trusty Equinox 800 and Garrett pinpointer and followed Jennie to the backyard where the ring was last seen. Jennie gave me a description of the events that took place on Saturday there by the pool and trampoline. It was evident by the matted down grass that the family had searched the area a lot with no luck. The first thing was to move the big steel framed trampoline out of that area so that it wouldn’t interfere with the metal detector.  I then started doing a small grid pattern in the area that they thought that the ring might be in. Nope, not there.  I then decided to grid the entire area, it wasn’t very big. After my 4th pass of my grid pattern,  up near the house, where the stairs lead down from the deck and meet the ground, and about 10 or 12 feet away from where they had been searching, I got a low, choppy, 6-7-8 on the detector. Like every other signal I grabbed my pinpointer and gave the grass a couple of passes in the area of the signal. That’s when I got a flash of something shiny hiding deep in the grass! There it was!! Jennie’s ring!!!

Success!!

Another smile for the book!

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Lost Necklace And Custom Gold Wedding Band Returned With Help

  • from Emerald Isle (North Carolina, United States)
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Randy called me one evening to say he placed his ring & necklace in his beach chair before heading out for one last swim before going out to eat.  He folded up the chair and ran back to the beach house and then realized he didn’t have his jewelry.  Upon arrival, Randy gave me a quick description of where he walked back to the house (across a very wide area of the beach) and back to the area he felt he had the chair set up.  It was getting dark quickly and it was very hard to determine the exact location.  I performed a grid search that evening and made a few hikes to the house and back to the high tide line.  It was getting late and I was only finding trash so I called it for that evening.  Fortunately, I keep track of where I walked, with an online application,  and use this to return to search again if needed.

The next couple of days I wasn’t able to get back to try again.  Two days after Randy phoned me, a young honest lady (Amber) asked if I knew of anyone that lost a gold ring near The Point (Emerald Isle)?  I told her I was searching for a ring & necklace in that area.  She mentioned her little sister Alayna found the ring while searching for seashells.  She shared the picture of the custom ring with me. I asked Randy about his ring and he described it perfectly!  We had a match!  I knew the necklace must have been nearby.  I asked Amber where the ring came from and she mentioned just above the high tide line.  I headed back out at daybreak because the heat each day was too much for me to be walking in the hot sand with no shade.  I expanded my original search area and was within inches the 1st night of finding both.  I hit a very clean signal and one scoop into the sand I was able to pull Randy’s gold chain with a golden cross.  It was a fantastic feeling to know WE found both his wedding ring and his necklace!  I am so glad Amber and Alayna knew about Crystal Coast Ring Finders.

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Gold Religious Pendant Lost In The Saco Maine Sand, Found With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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On Friday July 25th, as I was driving home, from Ogunquit Beach, I received a call from Eliza. Eliza told me that she is a lifeguard, at Bayview Beach, in Saco, Maine. Another lifeguard had recommended me to her. The other lifeguard had seen me make a recovery a few weeks earlier, just up the beach, at Kinney Shores, Maine. Eliza told me that on the previous day, as her shift ended, at 5:00pm, she noticed that she was missing her Gold Religious Pendant. The necklace was still around her neck but had become unclasped. She had it on, when starting her shift, at 9:00am but now it was nowhere to be found. Eliza told me that it had been very hot day and she had gone down to the water to cool off, while swimming. She had done this multiple times, throughout the day and just didn’t know when the pendant, fell off the necklace. It could be in the ocean, around the lifeguard stand or in the sand, along the route she used, to walk to the water, for her swim multiple swims. I told Eliza that I would be right there, as fast as I could but was about 45 minutes away. Eliza said no rush, she would be there all day.

Once I arrived at Bayview Beach, I went to the lifeguard stand and immediately saw Eliza, up on the stand, with her lifeguard partner. Eliza came down and showed me the areas she had walked, the previous day and the entire area, around the lifeguard stand are the areas she was hoping the pendant, would be in. If the pendant were in the water, I would need to return because the tide was currently high and I wouldn’t be able to search until the tide was receding. I told Eliza that I would grid search, down to the water, turn around, back to the lifeguard stand, back to the water, until I was outside the areas she had been. If I was not able to locate the pendant at that point, I would search around the lifeguard stand itself. If I still hadn’t recovered it, I would come back tonight and search the wet sand, as the tide was going out.
As I performed the east/west grid search, I was finding the usual beach trash, pull tabs, bottle caps, and foil. No coins, jewelry or pendant. I stood at the base of the lifeguard stand talking to Eliza and her partner, telling them the pendant wasn’t on the route, to the beach. I would now search the areas under and around the lifeguard stand itself I stepped back and starting on the left side of the stand, as you faced it, I took my first swing and received a nice loud low tone and showing up on my VDI screen as a 28. Definitely in the gold range by the tone and VDI reading. I removed my pinpointer from my pouch and ran it across the top of the soft sand. I located the target right off the bat and as I gently brushed the sand away, I caught a glimpse of the gold pendant. It was literally just to the left of the stand and next to the stairs. I picked the pendant up and looked at Eliza, saying “did you say a go,d pendant?” As soon as she saw her pendant a big smile broke out and she said “oh my god, that’s it. Thank you so much.” I then handed the pendant over to Eliza and she thanked me again. I told her that I was waiving the travel fee because I offer this service to First Responders, at no cost to them. All First Responders are so important to our communities. I just wouldn’t feel right charging a transportation fee to them, when they would help me whenever I would need them. Eliza thanked me again and I couldn’t be happier for her to get her very special Religious Pendant back. I love my job and putting smiles on peoples faces. 😀❤️🙏

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Palladium ring lost in Portland Oregon

  • from Oregon City (Oregon, United States)
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This last Saturday afternoon, I received a text message from Ross, saying his wife had dropped her wedding band off their deck into the backyard, and was hoping to enlist my services to find it. I was on the road from central Oregon, returning from an unfortunate failed search, so I told him I would contact him when I got home.

We later had a phone conversation and Ross explained that his wife, Julia, had been cooking out on the deck. She had her rings on a necklace. Somehow the necklace came apart and she saw the rings fall through the deck boards. They had rented a metal detector, and after cutting back much of the foliage, found one of the rings. Unfortunately, the palladium band that had belonged to her grandmother was still MIA.

I had to meet up and return a recovered ring on Sunday morning, but told him I would come out after that.

I arrived and met up with Ross, Julia was out. He showed me the deck, and the area below where the other ring was found. I searched the area, finding nothing but deck screws and debris.
I returned to the deck and dropped a couple of my ring simulations through the deck boards. I was able to find those with no problems. Being slightly frustrated, I used a flashlight to check between the deck boards, and a camera to look into the voids below the deck.

Julia had returned, so I interrogated her about the situation. She was certain she had seen the ring fall through the deck boards. With that information, I redoubled my efforts and expanded the search area. Many feet below the suspected loss area, I found a faint but promising signal on the Manticore. After moving away some brush, I saw the ring.  I was so excited to find it, I forgot to take any photos.
I climbed up the hill and met Ross at the door. Julia had left, but Ross was super excited to see the ring. We had a speaker phone conversation, and I could hear the emotion in her voice about finding the ring.

Its such a beautiful feeling to reunite an item that means so much, and thank you for your generosity.

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Wedding ring lost on Oregon beach, found with metal detector.

  • from Oregon City (Oregon, United States)
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   On a Tuesday evening I received a text from David informing me he had just lost his gold wedding ring on a beach in Oregon, wondering if it was worth going to look.

I didn’t see the message right away, so when I replied with a request for a call, I didn’t hear back until the next morning, as he had already left, and was driving home.

We chatted on Wednesday morning about the situation. He said he was at the coast for a family gathering. While on the beach, he noticed his ring slipped partially off, since it was slightly too big. His wife offered to take it and put it in her bag, but he declined, thinking he could keep track of it. (Advice, listen to the wife). They had sifted through the sand by hand and not found it. He wasn’t optimistic it could be found, he just wanted to exhaust all options before he wrote it off.

David sent some pictures of the general area they had spent the day, which included some helpful landmarks. I told him I would head out early Thursday morning to do the search as quickly as possible.

I arrived before the beach got too crowded, finding the location in his photos, and began a circular search around the area of the fire. Finding nothing but aluminum scrap and iron signals with the Manticore, I began a grid search further out. On my fourth pass, I received a promising signal, and about 3 inches down in the dry sand, I found a gold ring. It certainly looked like the ring I was looking for, a two tone gold and rose gold band.
I sent a picture of the area, telling him I was pretty sure I had found the correct spot to search, not mentioning the ring. He replied saying it was the right spot, telling me to contact him with any questions.
I then sent a picture of the ring and asked “Does it look like this?” A short time later he replied with “Yes!!” and “You’re an absolute hero!” We discussed how to reunite him with his ring, and he said he would love to shake my hand. We agreed to meet at a local coffee spot a couple days later.

We met up, I handed him the ring, which he immediately returned to his finger.

It’s always a great feeling to help someone get back a treasured item they thought was lost forever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Carpenter lost wedding band while sawing lumber

  • from Green Bay (Wisconsin, United States)
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Last Autumn I was called to a country home where a carpenter had been doing some remodeling work.  This involved hauling lumber to a sawhorse work area, and the usual carpentry activities such as cross-cutting and hammering.     I diligently searched the path where the wood had been unloaded, and worked my way to the sawhorses.  Luckily, the beautiful diamond and gold ring was soon dug out and shining in the sun, ready to be worn again.   

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