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Wedding ring recovered in Catawba, NC lost while fighting off angry yellow jackets. see link at end for WXII-12 News Story.

  • from Winston-Salem (North Carolina, United States)
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Received message from Mr. Ashe asking if I could assist him in Catawba area of Lake Norman.  I advised I was at work but could meet him afterwards and I was almost an hour away.  We made arrangements and I will let todays news story pick it up from here :)…

CATAWBA, N.C. — A Catawba man has been reunited with his wedding ring weeks after losing it while swatting at a swarm of yellow jackets in his backyard. He was helped by the metal detecting skills of a Forsyth County ring finder.

It all started in early August when David Ashe was doing some landscaping in preparation for a pool to be constructed in his backyard.

“Had the weed whacker, and I kind of went over a yellow jacket nest,” Ashe said. As the insects swarmed, Ashe tried to fend them off.

“I was swatting hard, and my ring shot off, and at that point I just ran,” he said.

Ashe escaped with more than 100 stings, and his wedding ring missing. He knew it was lost somewhere in the wooded ravine behind his home.

“My ring is very, very sentimental and precious to me because my wife picked it out and engraved it,” Ashe said.

Married since 2012, Ashe says his wife means the world to him. He said being without the ring felt strange.

“It feels naked because in the 12 years I’ve had this, I wear this every day, like it’s just every single day,” he said. “And my wife was reassuring me. She’s like, ‘You know, it doesn’t mean we’re not married, just means you don’t have your ring.’ But for me, it felt like something was missing. Something was just not right.”

Weeks passed before Ashe could return to the area to search for the ring, as he first had to deal with the yellow jackets. Heavy rain further complicated the search.

“It fills with water and kind of pushes,” he said, referring to the ravine where the ring was lost. “And at that point I thought for sure that’s what was happening. It was just going to keep pushing out on out into Lake Norman.”

Ashe purchased a metal detector to aid in his search, but the low-cost device didn’t yield any results. He said he was constantly picking up on the beeps and pops of other metal items.

That’s when he searched online and found out about a group called The Ring Finders. On the group’s website, he discovered Brad Trogdon, a Forsyth County resident with a simple description of his beloved hobby. “Obsessively metal detect if you ask my wife,” Trogdon said.

Trogdon discovered his passion for metal detecting during a beach trip two years ago.

“I refer to a metal detector like a foreign language; you can hear them speaking, you don’t comprehend it until you’ve studied awhile,” he said. “And that’s how I understand what I’m hearing in the beeps and the pops and whatnot.”

Now, he uses that skill to help people recover lost valuables, using higher-end metal detectors and an unrelenting attitude.

“I have a bad habit of not wanting to give up,” Trogdon said.

The two searched the woods behind Ashe’s house for hours, even continuing after dark. Ashe assumed his ring had flown in a certain direction, but searching that area proved fruitless. Then, Trogdon turned to a different section.

“It was late. It was very hot. I was soaking wet, and I said, I’m going to give it one more go because I hadn’t searched that area but once,” Trogdon said. “And when I did, the second search is when we came across it.”

Finally, Trogdon’s metal detector emitted the distinct beeping sound they had been waiting for.

“With a flashlight shining on it, that ring glowed back at me,” Trogdon said. “And that’s when I grinned real big, and I asked him, I’m like, ‘You didn’t say it had diamonds in it!’”

The white gold wedding ring with a line of diamonds embedded in it was found tucked into a rotten tree stump just feet from Ashe’s house.

“I put it on my hand, and it just felt like everything was just back to where it was, where it should be,” Ashe said.

Ashe has since added an adjuster to his ring to prevent it from flying off again, but if it ever does, Trogdon and his metal detector are ready to help.

Learn more about Brad Trogdon’s ring-finding work by clicking here.

Lead in to news story: WXII 12 – Lead In

Full news story:  WXII 12 – NBC News

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Lost Earring Recovered at York Pennsylvania

  • from Harrisburg (Pennsylvania, United States)
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On the day before Labor Day, 2026, I was contacted by an individual who stated his fiance′ lost a diamond stud earring at a baseball park near York, Pa. The couple were visiting from Connecticut and planned to leave on labor Day.  I arranged to meet with them on Labor Day morning.  After a thorough search in a small area the earring was recovered. The couple, having searched unsuccessfully with a metal detector the day before, were very happy that the earring was found. 

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Lost Wedding Band Recovered New Brighton Minnesota Long Lake beach

  • from Twin Cities Metro (Minnesota, United States)
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Maryam, her husband Hasan, and a friend were having a relaxing day at a local beach. They were trying to beat the end of summer heat by cooling off in the water. While tossing a ball with his friend, Hasan watched as his gold wedding band flew off his finger into the chest deep water. Right away, both Hasan and his friend searched the bottom to no avail. Maryam pulled out her smart phone and did a quick google search on “how to recover a ring in the water” – theringfinders.com came up. She gave me a call and explained the situation. It was getting late in the evening and I told her I would be available to search first thing in the morning. Maryam sent me a marked up picture of the swim beach with a circled area showing exactly where Hasan lost his ring. I arrived the next morning, suited up and hit the water. I found the ring in approximately 1 minute, it was right where Maryam marked. Most times, people’s markings are off by quite a bit. This mark was right on the button! Thank You so much for that!!!! Glad I could help as I know how important a ring can be.

Nice speaking with you Maryam, and nice meeting you Hasan.

Take care ~

Darrin

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Man’s Yellow Gold Class Ring Lost in the Ocean, Found and Returned North Myrtle Beach, SC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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On Sunday, September 6, 2026, I got a notification on FB about a gentleman who had lost his 20-year-old Patrick Henry Class Ring in the ocean. At 8 p.m. that evening I received a call from Emilia, the daughter of Osmin, the gentleman who had lost the ring. She told me he had lost it around 12:30-1 p.m. and was maybe chest deep. A quick check of the tide tables and that would have been roughly mid-tide with the next low tide happening just after 10 p.m. I told her that I could meet them at 10 p.m. I was watching the weather, which had predicted storms. And a little after 8 p.m., I text Emilia saying I was going to cancel that evening and would be there the next morning at 10 a.m., which was just before low tide.

On Monday just before 9:30 a.m., I sent Emilia a text saying, “On my way.” She acknowledged that she’d be waiting.  When I walked out on the beach, I met Emilia and her husband, Kenny. She told me her dad was away, but Kenny had been there when Osmin lost his ring. Kenny showed me what he remembered about where they were, and I started an east/west grid. I was using the beams on the Resort’s building as my landmark as I worked my way from North to South across the target area. As I got about halfway across the grid search, Osmin showed up and showed me about where he had been which I hadn’t gotten to yet in my search. I told him I’d keep working on my grid search so I’m not jumping from one spot to another. Osmin also said that he was trying to catch a ball that his brother had thrown, when the ball hit his ring finger and the ring slipped off into the ocean. I was just getting to Osmin’s suspected area when I got a solid signal and a 19-20 on the VDI (visual display indicator), those numbers tell me there’s a big gold ring under the coil. Dug one scoop, shook the sand out in the water and saw Osmin’s beautiful class ring in the scoop. I started walking towards Osmin and Kenny and stuck the scoop out for Osmin to retrieve his ring. Osmin’s big smile and a sign of relief make it all worthwhile.

Emilia – Thank you for calling me to help find your dad’s treasured class ring.

Jim

 

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Lost gold ring, recovered, Magician Lake, Dowagiac Michigan

  • from Granger (Indiana, United States)
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James, newly wed, noticed his gold ring had fallen off in the swimming area of his parent’s lake home. With some helpers, they tried to find it, scanning the bottom using goggles, with no luck. Amy, his mother, found me using Chat GPT and I was able to head right there to perform a search. James and his wife were not present today.
Nice sandy bottom to the swim area, not so clear water, but nice and warm. Got a few target hits, sorted through a few quickly, then got what sounded pretty promising. Scooped and saw a nice shiny gold ring in the basket. Took maybe a few minutes, if only they were all that easy.

Youtube Video of search Click Here

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Lost a Ring in Louisiana? What to Do Before You Give Up

  • from New Orleans (Louisiana, United States)
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Losing a wedding ring, engagement ring, class ring, or other sentimental piece of jewelry can turn into a stressful situation very quickly. Most people immediately start retracing their steps, crawling through the grass, or searching the same area over and over again.

If you lost a ring somewhere in Louisiana, especially in a yard, park, sports field, garden, playground, beach, or other outdoor area, there is a good chance it may still be recoverable.

I’ve helped recover lost rings throughout Southeast Louisiana, and one thing I’ve learned is that rings are very often not where people expect them to be.

First: Don’t Assume the Ring Is Gone

I’ve recovered rings that were lost only a few minutes earlier, but I’ve also recovered rings that had been missing for months and even years.

Unless the area has been significantly disturbed, a ring sitting in grass, dirt, mud, leaves, or landscaping usually isn’t going anywhere.

I’ve searched for rings around New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana that survived rain, lawn mowing, yard work, and months of exposure before eventually being recovered.

The important thing is to preserve the search area and think through what happened.

Try to Remember the Last Time You Definitely Had the Ring

Instead of asking yourself, “Where did I lose it?” ask:

“Where is the last place I know I still had it?”

Then reconstruct what happened afterward.

Were you throwing a ball?

Taking off gloves?

Doing yard work?

Playing with a dog?

Throwing something?

Putting your hands into your pockets?

Washing your hands?

Moving plants or mulch?

These details matter.

A ring that simply slipped off while walking will behave very differently from one that came off while throwing something or quickly pulling off a glove.

Don’t Trust the Suspected Area Too Much

This is probably one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from doing ring recoveries.

People are often very accurate about what they were doing when a ring disappeared but much less accurate about exactly where the ring landed.

I’ve had recoveries where the ring was only a few feet from where the owner expected it to be. I’ve also found them well outside the area that had already been searched.

That’s why I normally approach a recovery systematically. I search the most probable area first and then progressively expand the search rather than randomly walking around with a metal detector.

Sometimes finding a lost ring is less about detecting the ring and more about correctly eliminating all the places where it isn’t.

Be Careful With Lawn Mowers and Yard Work

If you’ve lost a ring in a Louisiana yard, try to avoid mowing until the area has been searched.

A lawn mower can potentially strike a ring and move or damage it. Yard work can also move the item into piles of leaves, mulch, trash bags, or other locations that become much harder to search later.

If the ring was lost while gardening, don’t immediately throw away pulled weeds, leaves, or yard debris. Set them aside if possible.

Louisiana yards can also present their own challenges. Thick St. Augustine grass, mud, standing water, roots, leaves, and heavy vegetation can make a ring nearly impossible to see even when it’s sitting right on the surface.

A Metal Detector Helps — But It Doesn’t Guarantee You’ll Find It

A lot of people understandably try borrowing or buying a metal detector after losing a ring.

Sometimes that works.

Other times, I’ve arrived after the owner had already spent hours searching with a detector and still found the missing ring.

Metal detectors respond to much more than jewelry. Louisiana yards can contain nails, aluminum, pull tabs, buried wire, construction debris, old coins, and countless other metallic targets.

The search also has to cover the right location.

You can have the best metal detector in the world, but if the ring landed 20 feet outside the area you’re searching, you’re not going to find it.

Mark the Area Before Your Memory Changes

If you know approximately where the loss happened, take a few pictures or mark important locations.

Where were you standing?

Which direction were you facing?

Where did you throw the object?

Where was the dog running?

Which garden bed were you working in?

Which direction did you walk afterward?

Those details may seem obvious immediately after losing something, but memories become less certain surprisingly quickly.

If you contact someone to help search, those details can be extremely useful.

Don’t Give Up Just Because Several Days Have Passed

One of the most common things people tell me is that they assumed too much time had passed to find their ring.

That isn’t necessarily true.

I’ve personally recovered jewelry in Louisiana that had been missing for months, including a ring in the New Orleans area that had been gone for approximately 18 months.

If the general location is known and the property can still be searched, it may still be worth looking.

Lost a Ring in New Orleans or Southeast Louisiana?

I’m Anthony Cuccia, a member of The Ring Finders, and I provide metal detector recovery services throughout New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana.

I’ve helped locate lost wedding rings, engagement rings and other jewelry in yards, gardens, parks, sports fields, muddy areas, shallow water and other searchable locations.

I regularly assist with searches around:

New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, Madisonville, Hammond, Gonzales, Baton Rouge and surrounding communities across Southeast Louisiana.

If you’ve lost something, feel free to text me and explain what happened. A few details about the item, where it was lost, and what you were doing when it disappeared can usually tell me a lot about whether the area can be searched.

Even if you’ve already looked extensively or tried searching with a metal detector, that doesn’t necessarily mean the ring isn’t there.

Anthony Cuccia – The Ring Finders
Call or Text: (985) 445-4514

If you lost a ring in Louisiana, don’t give up on it too quickly. Sometimes the difference between a ring being “gone forever” and being back on someone’s finger is simply knowing where and how to look.

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BOUNCING a VOLLEYBALL LED to BRANDON’S WEDDING BAND BEING LOST in the SURF

  • from Emerald Isle (North Carolina, United States)
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EMERALD ISLE, NC – Just minutes after losing his 5-month-old wedding ring, Brandon called Crystal Coast Ring Finders. I arrived shortly after high tide and began searching from high to low toward the ocean. After three and a half passes, the Deus II metal detector gave a solid 46 reading. Pinpointing the spot, I took one scoop, but a wave rushed in and washed away the sand. As I lifted the scoop to check, there it was—Brandon’s bright gold wedding band. I held up the scoop basket, and Brandon happily reclaimed his lost ring.

This year’s charity is Fishin’ for a Cure and 10% of Brandon’s reward will be donated to support individuals battling breast cancer.

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TITANIUM WEDDING RING LOST IN THE WATER, TRIPP LAKE, POLAND, MAINE, FOUND WITH A METAL DETECTOR

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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On August 3rd, my phone started blowing up. Facebook notifications were pouring in, tag after tag, mentioning me on a local Poland, Maine community board post.

The Poland, Maine community was trying to connect me with a man named Matt. Matt had posted a heartfelt plea to the group: he had recently lost his titanium wedding ring at Tripp Lake Beach, and he was desperately hoping a Good Samaritan might spot it and let him know.

When Matt called me, the true scale of the mission became clear.

About two weeks earlier, Matt had been enjoying a beautiful, sunny day with family and friends at Tripp Lake Beach, taking advantage of the scorching summer heat by cooling off in the water. But fresh water has a way of shrinking fingers fast! ?

Matt had spent his day wading across the entire length of the public beach—a stretch easily 300 feet long. Even worse, he had been swimming up to 50 or 60 feet out from the shoreline.

When you do the math, that meant the ring was resting somewhere inside a massive 15,000 to 18,000 square foot grid of dark lake water. By any measure, this was an incredibly massive underwater search area, and the clock had already been ticking for two weeks…

To make matters even more daunting, Matt dropped another bombshell: he had already tried searching the water with a borrowed metal detector. Not only that, but two other people had also brought their detectors down to the beach to scan the area.
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Honestly, looking at the sheer size of Tripp Lake Beach, it was no wonder. Dragging consumer gear through a massive underwater grid without a highly systematic search pattern is almost impossible.

When Matt asked if we could help, I took a hard look at the calendar. My schedule was completely packed. I was fully booked for recoveries on both August 4th and August 5th. But we don’t like giving up on a ring, especially when the community rallies to find us!

Our August 5th hunt was a critical, time-sensitive low-tide search down in Ogunquit, scheduled for very early in the morning. Gary Hill and I looked at the map and made a plan. The second we wrapped up the coastal ocean hunt in Ogunquit, Maine: Beautiful Place by the Sea t, we would pack up the Ring Finder Mobile and make the 1.5-hour drive inland to Poland, Maine . Two completely different bodies of water, two completely different environments, all in a single day. ??

Once Gary and I arrived at the lake and finally met Matt in person, he walked us right down to the water’s edge. I took one long look at the sheer, overwhelming size of that beach and a thought immediately popped into my head: “There is absolutely no way we are finding his ring today.”

The area was just too massive. Looking out at that water, I knew that anyone just walking around aimlessly had—as Matt accurately put it in his original Facebook post—a total “one-in-a-billion shot.” In my mind, I was already calculating the logistics. I figured Gary and I were going to need at least 4 or 5 full days of a highly disciplined, hyper-systematic grid search to clear this place safely.

But we didn’t drive 1.5 hours to stand on the shore and doubt ourselves. It was time to get to work! ⚔️

I turned to Matt and laid out the battle plan. We would use a prominent, large rock breaking the surface of the water as our deep outer boundary, as Matt confirmed he hadn’t gone out past that depth.

To keep our grid lines perfectly straight and ensure we didn’t miss a single inch of the lakebed, we utilized the rocks along the shoreline as our landmark anchors. Gary would start right where we were at the north end of the beach, working his way from the edge of the water out to the deep boundary and back, systematically grid-searching his way south toward a specific rock landmark on the shore.

Meanwhile, I walked further down the beach to that exact same shore rock—the one Gary would eventually stop at. That was my starting point. From there, I would work my grid lines from the shoreline out, systematically heading further south toward another visual lockup landmark on the beach.

As for Matt, he walked even further down the beach past my zone to start his own search, heading south to tackle the far end of the grid.

We dropped our coils into the water, tuned out the world, and began swinging… ??

Gary and I found the entire beach absolutely beautiful. The water was remarkably warm for an inland Maine lake, and as we got our rhythm down, we noticed something highly unusual: the targets were incredibly few and far between.

It was a very, very clean beach. Because we weren’t stopping to dig up the usual heavy layer of buried pull-tabs, bottle caps, and shredded aluminum foil, our search progress was moving significantly faster than I had originally anticipated. Since we weren’t digging many targets, we were moving right along, slicing through those 15,000 square feet with smooth, uninterrupted swings.

A fascinating thought crossed my mind as I looked over at Gary:
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When inexperienced hunters or people with borrowed, basic machines go looking for a lost item, they usually dig up every single faint beep or scratchy iron signal they can find in a desperate attempt to find the ring. By doing that, they often inadvertently do the heavy lifting for us—stripping away all the shallow metallic “trash” and clearing the path.

Because they had unknowingly cleaned out the background noise, our advanced, high-discrimination machines could scan the lakebed completely unhindered. If that titanium wedding band was down there, there was no longer any junk left to hide it. It was going to scream the second our coils passed over it.

As we proceeded south along the lakebed, almost an hour had passed. The quiet hum of the machines was hypnotic, and I was already mentally mapping out the next major sections for Gary and me to search on the following days, fully expecting this to be a multi-day operation.

Then, out of nowhere…
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My headphones lit up with the absolute best-sounding target of the entire day so far on the Minelab Excalibur II. It was a beautiful, solid tone that broke the lake’s silence.

I stopped dead in my tracks and yelled over to Gary, “This is a really good sounding target!”

I positioned my scoop and dug down into the lakebed. My first scoop came up—nothing but empty sand. The target was still in the hole.

I lined up the coil again, pushed the scoop down deeper into the sand, and lifted. As the second scoop broke the surface of the water, the lake sand began to rapidly sift through the drainage holes. All of a sudden, right there in the bottom of the scoop, I saw the ring! ??

Gary was now walking over to me and he reached into my scoop and grabbed the ring. We both looked at it, completely stunned that the “one-in-a-billion shot” had just paid off in under an hour!

I turned toward the southern end of the beach and yelled down as loud as I could: “????! ???????????????!” ?

The distance between us was so immense that my voice had to travel clear across the water. Matt froze in his tracks. He was so far down the beach that his response barely carried back to us—just a very faint, disbelieving… “???’?? ??????? ??.” ?

As Matt hurriedly waded back through the water toward us, Gary and I were just beaming. We couldn’t wipe the smiles off our faces. We just couldn’t believe our good fortune. Better to be lucky than good, as the old saying goes, and we certainly got lucky by being in the exact right spot at the exact right time today.

The moment Matt reached us, pure relief washed over his entire face. You could visually see the heavy stress of being without his wedding ring completely leave his body. He could finally breathe and relax again.

But even in that moment of relief, Matt wasn’t thinking about himself. His thoughts went straight to his wife.

As the three of us began walking out of the water together, I turned to him and said, “?’? ???? ?? ????? ??? ??? ?? ????.”

Matt looked at the ring, then back at us, and replied: “??? ???? ?? ???? ??? ????? ?? ???? ???? ??.” ❤️

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Just as the three of us stepped foot onto dry land, my phone started ringing. It was another panicked call about a lost ring—this time dropped into Crystal Lake in Gray, Maine , which was only about 7 miles down the road and directly on our way home!
I hung up, looked at my partner, and smiled: “Gary, pack up the Ring Finder Mobile… another lost ring awaits!” ??

Moments like this remind us why we do what we do. We truly have the best job in the world, and we love every single second of it!

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GOLD ENGAGEMENT RING LOST IN THE GOOSE ROCKS BEACH SAND, FOUND WITH A METAL DETECTOR IN KENNEBUNKPORT MAINE

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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It was August 1st when the phone rang. On the line was Kaitlin, sounding completely anxious. Her sister, Kelly, had just lost her precious engagement ring somewhere on the beautiful, massive expanse of Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport Maine.

As a detectorist with ??? ???? ??????? ?? ?????, I immediately went into investigative mode. ?️‍♂️ I started asking my usual checklist of questions to narrow down the search grid:

* Did she lose it in the water or the dry sand?
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* Did she see or feel the ring slide off?
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* Was there a specific area where she spent most of her time?
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* What kind of metal is the ring made of? (I always bring a matching test ring to calibrate my detector and show the client exactly how it works!)
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What Kaitlin told me next was a scenario I won’t soon forget! ?

Earlier in the day, Kelly had been swimming, which naturally shrinks fingers. Later, while relaxing peacefully in her beach chair, a bee or hornet suddenly landed right on her! ?❌

Total panic set in. Kelly jumped up, took off running, and began wildly flailing her arms to swat the stinging threat away. She bolted around her family’s beach setup and ran toward the water until the bee was finally gone. ?‍♀️?

It was only when she sat back down in her chair that her heart sank—her engagement ring was gone. To make matters worse, her wedding was just two months away in October! ??

Kelly was fairly certain the ring was somewhere in the dry sand. But with her running in circles and flailing her arms, that ring could have flown off her finger in a 360-degree radius, landing anywhere up to 30 or 40 feet away! The search grid was going to be massive.
Kaitlin mentioned that the whole family was still out on the beach actively searching. I immediately gave her some crucial advice: “Please hold off on disturbing the area as much as possible! Whatever you do, don’t dig any holes.” When helpful searchers dig and refill holes, they can inadvertently bury a shallow ring too deep for a standard detector to scan. ?⏳

At that exact moment, Cheryl and I were actually over on Mackworth Island in Falmouth, Maine. We were in the middle of searching for a lost diamond stud earring. Unfortunately, that specific hunt turned up empty.
As soon as the earring search wrapped up an hour later, we packed up our gear. With all the wild details of the bee-panic engagement ring loss fresh in our minds, there was only one thing left to do: hit the road and get to Kennebunkport Maine as fast as possible! ??

I called Kaitlin back to let her know we were about 45 minutes away. She told me her father would meet us at the beach access path to guide us directly to the spot. Sure enough, the moment Cheryl and I arrived, her dad was right there waiting for us. He escorted us straight down to the scene of the “bee incident.”
That is where we met Kelly. With her wedding coming up fast in October, the stress and anxiety coming from her were palpable. I knew we needed to find this ring, and fast. ❤️?

Kelly pointed out exactly where her beach chair had been when the bee landed on her. Then, she walked me through her frantic flight path as she tried to escape it. At first glance, it didn’t look like a massive area. But knowing how far a ring can fly when someone is violently flailing their arms, the potential search zone could easily extend 40 feet on either side of that path.

I decided the smartest move was to start scanning the dry sand between their family beach setup and the nearby dune restoration project. As I looked around, two major worries crossed my mind. First, I prayed the ring hadn’t flown into the protected dune grass, which is strictly off-limits. Second, the beach was packed! There were crowds of people with towels, blankets, and beach bags lined up just past the high tide mark. If that ring took flight, it easily could have landed right on someone else’s towel or bounced straight into a stranger’s beach bag. ??

With the stakes higher than ever, it was time to turn on the detectors and start swinging.
I started with a tight grid search in the area behind their beach setup and right up to the edge of the dune grass. After about 30 minutes of careful sweeping, my detector picked up only a few stray coins and the usual beach trash—but no engagement ring. ??️

Next, I moved into their beach canopy. I spent about 10 minutes checking inside, but the metal frame from the canopy makes a thorough search difficult because it interferes with the detector’s signals. It wasn’t a perfect sweep, but I knew I could always come back and try a different approach inside the canopy later in the evening if the primary search areas turned up empty.
Having now cleared the interior of the canopy, the north side, and the west side, it was time to change direction. I shifted my focus to the south side of the canopy and began working my way toward the front, closely tracing the path of her frantic flight to safety. ?️?

Almost immediately, my headphones lit up with that beautiful, low tone I was hoping to hear! ??

I pulled out my handheld pinpointer to narrow down the target, then carefully brushed through the soft sand with my hand. I felt the familiar shape of a ring. Before I even had it pulled completely out of the sand, Kelly and Kaitlin caught sight of it and started jumping up and down in pure joy! ?✨

Their father and other family members erupted into applause, and the cheering and excitement instantly spread to nearby beachgoers who had been watching the drama unfold. It was an absolutely fantastic moment, seeing so much happiness wash over everyone on that beach! ??

Kelly and Kaitlin immediately rushed over to give me giant hugs, followed by a firm, grateful handshake from their father as the cheers continued. Kelly couldn’t stop thanking me, flashing one of the biggest, best smiles I have ever seen. ?❤️

As Cheryl and I packed up and walked away, I was floating on cloud nine. Helping Kelly recover her engagement ring just weeks before her big October wedding is exactly why we love doing this work. There is no better feeling in the entire world. I truly have the best job, and I love what I do!

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Cheryl managed to catch the whole reveal on camera! You absolutely have to see the exact moment Kelly realizes her ring is safe, and listen to the beach crowd erupt into cheers—it will honestly bring a tear to your eye and a smile to your face. Check out the very first comment below to watch the magic happen! ???

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The sooner you call, the faster we can get you your own happy ending!

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GOLD STUD EARRING LOST IN THE SCARBOROUGH MAINE GRASS, FOUND WITH A METAL DETECTOR

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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The Ring Finders of Maine With Recovery and Return # 252

On July 15th, I got a heartbreaking call from Emily, a local real estate agent. ?‍?
The night before, she was playing volleyball at Memorial Park in Scarborough, Maine. ?

? Side note: This park is so nostalgic for me—it’s the site of the old Portland Twin Drive-In Theatre! ??

During a big play at the net, Emily jumped high and brushed against the mesh. ?

In a split second, her custom earring slipped out and vanished into the thick grass. ?

Emily and her friends searched on their hands and knees but found absolutely nothing. ?

This wasn’t just any jewelry. Emily used to be a professional jeweler. ?️

She had designed and handcrafted this specific gold earring herself. ?

She left the park completely devastated. ?

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Most people think metal detectors find jewelry instantly. ?

But tiny stud earrings are the ultimate test of skill and gear. ?️

They contain an incredibly minute amount of precious metal. ?

When they fall into thick grass, they rarely lay flat. ?

Standard detecting programs look for round, dense targets like coins or thick wedding bands. ??

A vertical, microscopic gold post has an electromagnetic footprint that is almost non-existent. ?

Standard factory programs will simply ignore it or filter it out as ground noise. ?

To give us a fighting chance, I swapped to my agile 8″ coil. ?

I booted up the Minelab Manticore’s specialized “Gold Field” program. ?

This mode is engineered to sniff out tiny, low-conductive gold that other detectors miss. ✨

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Emily met me at the park at 1:30 PM, right after I got back from York. ?

She had smartly marked the exact net post hole with a small tree branch. ?

I started a tight, overlapping grid search on her side of the net. ?

Nothing but faint iron mineralization from the soil. ?

I crossed over to the opposing team’s side of the net and kept swinging. ?️‍♂️

After 5 to 6 minutes of methodical scanning… BANG! ⚡

A sharp, beautifully repeatable audio signal broke through my headphones. ?

Having had two complete and total knee replacements, dropping down to the ground wasn’t happening. ??

Instead, I carefully bent over and used my handheld pinpointer to narrow down the grass blades. ?️‍♂️?

As I slowly parted the turf with my fingers, there it was—gleaming bright yellow in the dirt! ✨?

Emily spotted it at the exact same millisecond. ?️⭐

(If you haven’t seen her reaction yet, go watch the video Reel I posted last night!) ??

She started jumping up and down with her hands in the air, celebrating wildly! ??

? “WOW, thank you so much!” she shouted. ??

Seeing that pure joy and relief is exactly why I do this. ❤️

Honestly, I have the best job in the world, and I love my job! ??

Welcome home, earring! ??

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Funny enough, volleyball courts have been my specialty this season!

This actually marks my third volleyball court recovery of the year. ?

The first two were rings lost in the deep sand during intense beach volleyball games. ?️?

But switching from soft beach sand to thick park grass is a whole different ballgame—and it feels great to keep the streak alive! ?️➡️?

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At the end of the day, our motto is simple:

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Whether it’s a sentimental ring lost on the beach ?️, a family heirloom dropped in the backyard ?, or a tiny earring lost in a local park ?, time is of the essence. ⏱️

If you or someone you know has lost a metal item in the southern Maine area, don’t wait. ?

Send me a direct message right here on Facebook, and let’s get your treasure back where it belongs! ✉️?

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