This past Monday, August 10 I received a call from Dennis from the Ring Finder of Maine, just giving me a heads up about lost rings on deer aisle, Maine. I was able to contact Mariah through Facebook and offered my assistance. Mariah called me immediately and send me pictures and a location.

Once on site , I called Maria and she was able to direct me to where she took a picture 20 minutes before she lost her rings. She had placed her rings in the pants pocket of her shorts while she went swimming. After your swim, she picked up her shorts and started making her way to the exit before realizing that she didn’t have her rings. she searched immediately, could not find them. And then she searched three more times before she had to leave Deer Isle for her home in southern Maine. She lost the rings on a Friday so four or five tides had passed since she lost her ring.

I started my search At the lowest point on the beach that I felt she could’ve been and started working up as luck would have it. The ring was all the way up in the dry sand, so it was over an hour and a half of searching before I found the rings

Mariah drove from Southern Maine Wednesday evening to get a ring back. Her smile says it all.

8/13/26

I was on my way home from a successful ring recovery this morning when I got a message from a lady who’s wedding ring was lost somewhere on her property. I told I would be there this evening to do an initial search.

When I got there she explained that she had temporarily put her ring with a few others in a container in the kitchen. One day, a few weeks ago, her very young daughter decided to try them on and go out in their large yard wearing them. Unfortunately one came up missing. At her age, she had no idea of the significance of that ring. So, they borrowed a metal detector, and didn’t have any luck with it.

They brought me out back and explained the areas that it might be in. I figured I could only cover about 1/3 of it in the couple hours that I had and promised to return if needed. I searched about 1-1/2 hours and was about to call it a day because it was getting dark and I was exhausted. There had been lots of signals, but just then I got a clear, gold tone. I pushed the pinpointer down into the lush, deep grass and there was a circle of white gold! I told the kids to go get Mom!!!

What a feeling to hand back a wedding ring to a young mother with a family.

2 rings in one day made me feel great!

Brandon called wondering if I could solve a mystery: He felt his wedding band slip off when he was tucking in his shirt while doing yard work in his back yard, but detailed searches found nothing.   He even cut the grass and combed through the clippings.   I searched every inch of his back lawn and only found a few pieces of cans.  It seemed hopeless, and it was very hot and humid to be outside.   Finally, as a last resort, I asked Brandon to see if his neighbor on the other side of a chain link fence would let me detect there as well.   After securing permission, I squeezed in through the gate and found the ring within 10 seconds!  It had flown or bounced about 8 feet and gone through the fence!   The mystery was solved, and the ring looked great back on Brandon’s finger!

Monday morning, 10 July found me on my way to my yearly dentist appointment. I received a call from Dennis from the Ring Finder of Maine with just a heads up about two rings lost in deer lake Maine. He sent me the Facebook post from the inquiry he had. I made my appointment and as I got back in the truck, I saw a Call on my phone that I didn’t recognize. I thought to myself that must be the lady. Turns out it was a lady from Phillips Lake. Lost her ring the previous evening while clearing some lake weeds from in front of a camp. She was fairly close to where I was so I said I’ll be right there. Then I remembered I didn’t have everything I needed for a water search and I had to call her back and say well I’ll be there in an hour or so.

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Once  I arrived at the camp, I met Ruth and her husband. Ruth and I and my metal detector headed for the beach. She had a little pile of lake weed  she had pulled. I scanned it quickly and there was no signal there. Then we proceeded to the water ruth stepped in and starting to point out to me where she pulled the weeds. I scanned a water in front of me and stepped in and the next sweep. I had a really good signal. I said to Ruth, this is a good signal. I like this signal. She said I tried to move that rock but I couldn’t. I reached out with my hand and gave the gravel a swirl, and there was a wedding ring. Less than two minutes on site less than 30 seconds in the water. If this isn’t my fastest recovery? It’s pretty close. I grabbed a picture of Ruth and a ring. We said goodbye and I headed for town thinking I wonder what’s going on in Deer isle. It turns out that Ruth’s Ring was my first of a three ring day. The other rings are for another story.

When I first lost my wedding ring I was devastated and spent hours searching for it with a friends, children’s metal detector. My mom found Evan with the Ring Finders online and as soon as we spoke he was actively trying to help me find it. He couldn’t come out immediately and talked about how important it was to find it quick! He first gave me all sorts of tips on how to rent an actual good metal detector and use it so I could look right away. When that didn’t work, he came out as soon as he could and it was clear that Evan was almost as invested in finding my ring as I was! After he went around the area the first time and didn’t find it, I gave up hope and thought that it was gone for good. I went back to work and got a call from Evan almost 2 hours later saying he found it in a spot that it was unlikely to be and deeper than we thought as well! As I said before, Evan was willing to help me out immediately and stayed way longer to do as thorough of a search as possible. I really appreciate him and hopefully I never lose any more jewelry but he would be my first call!