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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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The ring

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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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Art carved diamond engagement ring recovered from planter

  • from Green Bay (Wisconsin, United States)
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The day after Independence Day I was contacted by a woman who discovered me on The Ring Finders website   She was quite concerned that she had lost her beautiful gold engagement ring while potting plants and doing landscaping.    I drove to her home the next morning, and was impressed by its beautiful landscaping, with several plants along the house and paths and five large potted green and floral arrangements on the front porch.  Needless to say, every inch would be searched.  Using my Nokta Legend, I swept the coil along the yard, paths, and sidewalks where most of the weeding and planting had been done, with no success.  Then, I broke the news that I would have to dump out the large pots!   She said to go ahead and do what had to be done.  As luck would have it, a strong gold signal rang out on the fifth and final one!  The workmanship that went into this ring made it one-of-a-kind!   A quick rinse and it shined as good as new!

Her ring was found!

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TWO LOST RINGS: 3 Ct, emerald cut diamond engagement plus wedding band at BALD HEAD ISLAND, NC….. FOUND!!!!

  • from Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)
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My fiancé was tagged by one of her friends on Facebook page for Southport NC. The local page post stated someone from Portland, OR had lost her wedding and engagement rings.

After joining the page and getting in contact with the young lady’s husband. We were able to decide on a time for me to drive out to the beach to help find his wife’s lost rings.

I drove 4 1/2 hours one way and just missed the 1:30 ferry to Bald Heads Island, so I had to wait until the 3 o’clock ferry.

I get to the other side at 3:45, had to put my detector together and get the details. We made our way to the beach where they gave me the general area of where his wife had lost her rings.

I spent well over an hour in the water because that’s where they thought they lost them.

I told Jon (the husband) I was going to make my way to the sand and he said he was going to head back to the house. Some of his family had remained behind on the beach.

I hadn’t hit on ANYTHING in the water or on the beach. As I made my way to the wet sand that’s when I finally got a hit! 1st scoop and IT WAS THE WEDDING BAND! Then from there I did a circle around the first hole until I got the 2nd hit, 2 scoops and BOOM!!! IT WAS THE 3 CT EMERALD CUT DIAMOND RING!!! I had successfully found them BOTH!

We waited for everyone to down to the beach from the house and shared where I found them and took some happy pictures!

We then headed back to the house to share the news with the rest of the family, drink a couple of beers to celebrate!!!

This is what I do; what I love to do! I enjoy putting smiles back on faces and joy back in the broken hearts of individuals that had very little hope their cherished rings wound be found!

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Ring count for 2025: 126 (19 – recoveries)

GOLD – 21 (12 – recoveries)
GOLD/SILVER – 2 (2 – recoveries)
PLATNIUM – 2 (2 – recoveries)
SILVER – 33 (3 – recoveries)
VINTAGE – 2
JUNK – 66

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Lost Gold Bracelet Found at Malibu Lagoon Beach in Malibu CA.

  • from Santa Barbara (California, United States)
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Yesterday, Bon called me after a heartbreaking loss at Malibu Lagoon Beach. While enjoying a sunny afternoon with his family, he realized his cherished 23k gold bracelet, a gift from 15 years ago, had slipped off his wrist. This wasn’t just any bracelet—it hadn’t left his wrist since the day he received it. Devastated, Bon and his wife feared it was gone forever in the vast sands of Malibu, CA.Bon wasn’t sure where the bracelet was lost. He and his son had been playing in both the wet sand and dry sand near Malibu Lagoon State Beach, covering an area about half a football field. This was a job for Dave The RingFinder, your go-to metal detection expert in Malibu.
I arrived at the beach and marked out the search area based on Bon’s description. Using my Minelab Manticore, I began gridding the Malibu Lagoon Beach sands. The area was littered with rusty nails and debris from bonfires, common at this popular Malibu beach. I thoroughly searched the dry sand with no luck, then moved to the wet sand and slope where Bon and his son had been throwing stones. Still, only quarters and iron junk turned up.Expanding the search was key. I returned to the dry sand and gridded perpendicular to the shoreline. On my second pass, I got a solid 6 on my detector—a promising signal! Carefully digging with my CKG scoop to avoid damage, I spotted a gold link dangling from the scoop. Shaking out the sand revealed Bon’s 23k gold bracelet—recovered! Another successful mission for Dave The RingFinder in Malibu, CA!
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Prescription Glasses Lost In The Ocean Park, Maine Surf, Found With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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I received a call, on late Friday morning, from Kim. Kim had just lost her prescription glasses, in the water, in Ocean Park, Maine. She and here daughter were playing in the water, when her daughter jumped on Kim, knocking her glasses, in the surf. Unfortunately the glasses remained lost, after they tried searching, the sandy bottom of the water. Kim asked if I could find glasses and I told her that we could, if they weren’t all plastic. I also told her that my experience is that glasses were no longer any good, once they were in the waves and sand. The glasses generally get scratched easily and the frames get bent. Kim told me that she had insurance on her prescription glasses, but needed them to file a claim. As long as she produced the damaged glasses, the insurance would replace them. She just needed me to find them. I asked Kim to let me check the tide charts because I knew high tide was not to far off and we would need to search, once the water had receded. I also told Kim that I wouldn’t be able to personally search for them. I had a Dentist appointment at 1:00pm and I was already booked to search Ogunquit Beach, at 3:30pm. I told her I would see if Gary Hill was available and he could search, once the tide receded.

I contacted Gary and he was available, to help Kim. I gave Gary her phone number and when he called her, they made plans to meet in Ocean Park Beach, at 3:00pm. Once Gary arrived at 3:00pm, the tide was receding and was on its way to low tide. A perfect time to search. Kim showed Gary the location she thought the glasses would be in. Gary immediately got to work, grid searching the area. He wasn’t finding much when after 10 minutes of searching, he was approaching the water. At this point, Gary received a low tone of 08, on his VDI screen. Gary then dug a hole with his long handle sand scoop and after placing the dug up sand, off to the side, a wave came in and washed the sand pile behind. The wave also moved a pair of glasses, from the sand pile, to behind Gary. Gary never saw the glasses, when Kim yelled out, “There they are”, and immediately jumped behind Gary and grabbed the glasses, before the next wave took them away, again. Kim looked the glasses over and thought they were fine but would probably be taking them to the optometrist’s office and get them checked out. So Kim’s glasses may not be as exciting as finding gold and diamond rings, but because Gary was able to find them, it may save Kim hundreds of out of pocket dollars, because of her insurance. Now who doesn’t like to save hundreds of dollars. Gary and I certainly do. We also love helping people like Kim, when we are need. A smile is a smile and we take them any way we can get them. 😁❤️🙏

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Lost Earring found in Highland Park Illinois

  • from Chicago (Illinois, United States)
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Received a call this morning.

Lost a Christmas gift from her boyfriend in the front yard.

She was unable to make the search but her boyfriend did.

Actually a pretty easy and quick search considering it was an earring (so small)

Took about 15 minutes.

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Scussett Beach, MA Diamond Ring Found and Returned by Richard Browne

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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July 25, 2025 Just about everyone has a memorable time at the beach, some even enjoy the trip home and make plans to return on another day, as it was with Sidney and Tim. That was until Sidney arrived home and opened the backpack to get her rings that Tim had taken from her at the water’s edge. Let’s cut to the search. I left my house under the threat of severe thunderstorms that were on their way across Cape Cod. I was going to try to beat the rain and I would stay off the beach during any thunder. I was willing to take the chance. On my way skies darkened and it was lit up frequently with streaks of lightening. I almost turned around, but with only few miles to the beach, I pushed on. Traffic was on my side and I arrived at the beach 25 minutes before Sidney and Tim. And in that time the storm passed over and the skies were turning a nice calm blue.

With boots, detector, and scoop ready the three of us headed for the area that the loss occurred. At first it was a nice, once was dry sand area, pointed out as the area to search but nothing turned up! Well maybe we were more this way is closer to where we were. Again nothing…closer to the water? Oh yes, Sidney then told me she had taken the rings off at the water’s edge, gave them to Tim, and he took them to the backpack and secured them in there.

Cellphone pictures showed a more probable location on the “dry” sand. It looked promising and a missing plastic toy that was lost the day before was uncovered and would be taken home. Could it be Tim had dropped the one ring? Could be. So I started searching between the “dry” sand area and the water’s edge. My next signal sounded pretty good. Sure enough, a shallow scoop an inch below the wet sand and closer to the water than were the ring was believed to have been lost, the ring was in my scoop. As it frequently happens the ring is usually not were it is thought to have been lost..

Sidney quickly nestled the beautiful diamond between the two sides of the wedding band and replaced the assembled ring back on her finger with a promise never to let that happen again. I suggested a couple of ways that could be accomplished. First is to leave the rings at home and wear an inexpensive set to the beach. Second if they should be taken off on the beach put them directly into a zip-lock bag. A third aid is a tight fitting silicon clear ring to be used as a keeper.

The ring having been found and restored to its proper location. The storm had passed, the blue sky was here waiting to turn dark again, this time by the setting sun. The only thing left was the last thank you, a cheerful good-bye and a long ride home. At least the ride was going to be long enough to make plans for another memorable day on the beach hopefully one without such a traumatic ending.

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Fairfield CT after a July 4th backyard relay race the recovery of a Gold Ring July 2025

  • from Old Saybrook (Connecticut, United States)
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Claire and her friend were enjoying a fourth of July party in a friends back yard. During a relay race Claire felt the ring slip from her fingers and fly somewhere into the grassy area. She  and her friends searched the area on their hands and knees  for hours and could not find the ring. Claire by chance saw the news broadcast about my helping people recover lost jewelry in Fairfield and asked if I could take a look. I arrived and found out there was one potentially major problem. The yard had an electric fence and the interference it caused made me reduce my sensitivity significantly. I asked Claire to reenact the event as best as she could remember to put me close tot he area. After balancing the frequency in my detector I got my first gold tone signal. Putting the pin pointer to the ground clearly told me we had a good target just below the surface. Putting my fingers into the soil under the grass a gold ring popped out of the grass and into my hand. I showed her what I had just found and she stared in disbelief that I was able to get it, especially after they had spent hours searching for it. we did a reenactment on video for her friends and family to see the moment she was surprised , that video was fun to make and capture the essence of what it feels like to return a sentimental item

I also learned better how to deal with the electric fences so if this happens again I would be ready. I did not see the two dogs until after the hunt was over but I’m glad I had returned to the car when they came out to protect their property.

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Westport CT Back yard platinum Cartier wedding ring found in record making time July 2025

  • from Old Saybrook (Connecticut, United States)
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For Jeff and his family a normal routine of placing his ring on a table and then going into the pool resulted in the ring being tossed into the yard. Jeff had placed his ring in his hat on the table and accidently put the cap on his head and the ring sailed out into the grassy , flower bed area surrounding his hot tub and deck. After spending a week on their hands and knees and even buying an Amazon detector they had no success, then Jeff heard about me from a news broadcast and gave me a call to investigate. After sending me a few pictures and a video tape of his yard  had a possible idea of what could have happened. I wanted to search the bushes and grassy area next to the flower bed. I surveyed the area and started detecting avoiding the electrical wires in the garden and deciding to search the area immediately adjacent to the garden and grass. I had a great signal just below the grass layer and after inserting my finger under the grass the ring came out on the tip of my finger, it was approximately 2 minutes after I had started searching. I showed him my finger and he explained I was a magician and where was it. My best guess is that his family had probably stepped on it and pushed it further into the grass so it could not be seen. The inexpensive metal detector and lack of experience did not help. He immediately texted his kids and called his wife downstairs to see the miraculous recovery that happened in my personal record breaking time. They were stunned and in disbelief that they had not found it.  I admit that I had been lucky to choose the right area and first logical choice and know my detector and the signals matching a platinum ring. It could have been a long search if the lawn mower had caught it and tossed it into the woods or if it had been taken out in the mulched grass clippings. A good day for all and two hours on the road to then start another search nearby.

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