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Gold and Diamond Wedding Ring Lost In The Bridgton, Maine Grass, While Ring Bearer Was Walking Down The Aisle, Found With A Metal Detector

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🚨 WEDDING DAY RESCUE! 💍 A missing ring, a panicked wedding party, and a five-year-old ring bearer who thought he ruined the big day… but the story didn’t end there!

On Saturday evening, I received a phone call from Monica . She was at a wedding reception at the Tarry-A-While Resort in Bridgton, Maine . Her son, Mikel had just gotten married earlier that afternoon, and the celebration was in full swing on the property.
Monica told me that during the actual wedding ceremony, the five-year-old ring bearer had shown up at the altar with only one ring. He still had the groom’s wedding band, but the bride’s wedding ring was completely missing, from the ring pillow. YIKES!!!
After quite a bit of panic (and I’m told that is a massive understatement), a wedding guest kindly offered up her own wedding ring to the bride so the ceremony could proceed. 💍
Once the ceremony finished, the wedding party headed off to take photos on the property overlooking Highland Lake . While they were away, the guests jumped into action. Everyone searched the grass along the path taken by the young ring bearer. After a lengthy search, the ring was nowhere to be found, and everyone eventually headed to the reception.
Thankfully, Monica follows The Ring Finders of Maine and knew exactly who to call. Most of the wedding party was staying at the resort and would be checking out after a morning farewell breakfast. I promised Monica that I would be there bright and early at 7:00 AM to search the path, taken by the wedding party. I was praying I would find it before everyone left, after the breakfast.
Cheryl and I left Saco, Maine at approximately 5:00am and arrived at the resort just before 7:00 AM. Monica and Mikel quickly met us and took us to the ceremony site. The groom asked me not to use the name of the ring bearer, to protect his privacy.
The poor young ring bearer felt like he had ruined everyone’s day and was incredibly upset. Even though everyone consoled him and told him it was just an accident, he still felt terrible this morning. Of course, I will always abide by a family’s wishes. Accidents happen, and there is no need to make anyone feel worse!
Mikel showed me the muster area where the wedding party started their procession. It wasn’t a long walk to the altar, but it was a beautiful, thick, grassy lawn—the perfect place for a wedding ring to hide.
I was told the ring bearer had tripped and stumbled a few times on his way down the aisle. He never fell, but they knew the area between the guest chairs was of particular interest because that is where he got tripped up.
I decided to start the search at the muster area and walk the exact route of the procession, paying close attention to the aisle. I started slowly and worked my way toward the altar. I was getting quite a few signals, as expected at an old resort, but nothing to get excited about yet. I checked anything that resembled the signature of a woman’s gold ring using my pinpointer.
As the search continued, a few more members of the wedding party showed up to help with a visual search. As I headed straight down the aisle, Monica, Mikel, and a few others moved chairs out of the way for me.
Approaching the middle of the aisle, I received a very loud, repeatable low tone. I couldn’t see anything in the thick grass, so I used my pinpointer to pinpoint the target. As I parted the blades of grass, there it was: a white gold and diamond wedding ring! 💎
The moment I picked it up and everyone saw it, cheers and screams filled the air. The relief was immediate and genuine.
The wedding ring was found dead center in the grassy aisle, right where the young ring bearer had stumbled. It is truly amazing how easily a ring can stay completely hidden from the human eye in the grass like that.
After the usual high-fives, hugs, and handshakes, Mikel went to get his wife to present her with the ring. Their plan was to head back down to the altar before leaving and place the ring on her finger with everyone who was still there. First, though, they had to get to that breakfast. I bet the mood was much lighter this morning now that the ring was found! I truly hope the ring bearer feels much better now, too.
Cheryl and I never did meet the bride, but I know her day just got tenfold better.
Thankfully, Monica knew exactly who to call, and she was incredibly grateful for the quick response. As I always like to say: “If it matters to you, it matters to us.”
I have the best job in the world, and I love what I do!

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Hearing Aid Lost In Saco, Maine, Found With A Metal Detector

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“They cost thousands of dollars, look exactly like bark mulch, and completely disappear in thick bushes. When Patricia lost her brand-new hearing aid in her Saco, Maine Saco yard, she thought it was gone forever…”

On Thursday, June 11th, I received a call from Patricia. She was in her yard with Maddie, a good friend and my former neighbor of 28 years. I have also known Patricia through Maddie and see her fairly regularly. My wife, Cheryl, and I always see her while we are all out walking the neighborhood. Patricia lives just around the corner from me, maybe a quarter to a third of a mile away, in Saco, Maine.

Patricia told Maddie that she had lost one of her hearing aids the previous day while doing yard work. She had searched for it but just couldn’t find it on the lawn or in the hedges. Patricia now had Maddie assisting her, but they still couldn’t locate it. They were even raking the lawn and underneath the bushes, but the hearing aid remained elusive. Now that they were both hot, sweaty, and fatigued due to the humid weather, Maddie suggested that Patricia give me a call to search for it with my metal detector.

Once she called, Patricia asked me if a metal detector would even be able to find a hearing aid. I explained that it depended on the type of hearing aid and how much metal was in it. There is usually very little metal in the devices themselves, but I told her that I could check her remaining hearing aid to see if I could detect it. I knew if worst came to worst, I could use my Goldfield program. Once I arrived at Patricia’s, I could see her and Maddie still searching. Patricia had her remaining hearing aid in a small sandwich bag and placed it on the grassy lawn. As I checked it, my detector was barely picking up the target while using my All Terrain Low Conductor program with my smallest and most sensitive coil, the M8. The M8 is just an 8” elliptical coil, but it is very sensitive to small, low-conductive targets.

Once I changed the program to “Goldfield,” the hearing aid came in loud and clear. But, there are drawbacks to using this program. The Goldfield program worked because a small hearing aid contains microscopic electronic components and very thin wires that mimic the exact physical profile of a tiny gold flake or nugget. Standard metal detecting modes are tuned to find larger, highly conductive items like coins. They completely ignore tiny items with very low electrical conductivity. By contrast, the Goldfield mode forces the Manticore to use high-frequency, Multi-IQ technology and an open audio threshold. This makes the detector incredibly sensitive to minute, low-conductivity targets, allowing it to easily pick up the faint signal of the hearing aid’s internal circuitry where other programs would remain completely silent. Because Goldfield is designed for maximum sensitivity with minimal filtering, it is a very “noisy” and chatty program. If you try to use it in a park, backyard, or iron-infested old homesite, the sheer amount of trash, nails, and foil will completely overwhelm the audio. It requires a practiced ear to distinguish the smooth “zip-zip” rise of a gold target from the erratic chatter of ground noise or EMI (electromagnetic interference).

So, with the coil and program all picked out, it was time to search. Patricia told me that her hearing aid has Bluetooth GPS tracking. The hearing aid was not connecting to the Bluetooth once she moved away from the bushes and the lawn area around them. This meant the hearing aid would be in a very small area of maybe 20’ x 20’ at the most. We then tried my pinpointer on her remaining hearing aid, and the pinpointer picked it up with no problem. Even my smallest coil couldn’t penetrate the very thick bushes. After scanning the top and sides of the bushes, I came up empty.

I asked Patricia if she would like to use the pinpointer and probe the bushes with it while I searched the lawn. Patricia jumped at the opportunity. As I was searching the grass and Patricia was probing the bushes, Maddie was still visually searching. It was an all-hands-on-deck search. As I was finishing up the grass area where the Bluetooth would still connect, Patricia was on her hands and knees searching the bark mulch just below the bushes. I decided to start searching the bark mulch on the opposite end from Patricia. Once I caught up to where Patricia was searching, I went to the other side of the hedges and started searching. As I was working my way down the hedges, I heard Patricia excitedly scream out, “Dennis, I found it!” Patricia then picked the hearing aid up and showed both Maddie and myself, and the smiles and happy laughs broke out.

I was just so happy for Patricia. She has only had her hearing aids for 6 months, and if you have ever priced these things out, you know how expensive they can be. It’s just amazing how difficult it is to see them. It blended in with the bark mulch perfectly. It felt great to be able to help a friend and neighbor here in Saco. It doesn’t matter if the lost item is an engagement ring, a property marker, or a hearing aid—if it matters to you, it matters to us. We have the best job in the world. I love my job.

 

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Wallet Lost On Bryant Pond, Maine, While Skating, Found Years Later, In The Water, With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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I was searching a Maine pond,  with my metal detector. It was a routine outing until a target changed everything. In my scoop was a  a silt covered wallet. Upon opening it, the remarkably preserved IDs and cards suggested it had been submerged for two to four years. There was 7 coins, inside the wallet and that is what set the detector off.  Recognizing the challenge of tracking down a stranger from a distance, I immediately reached out to the community, hoping a strong connection to Arlington, Massachusetts, would yield a clue.
The major breakthrough came when I  contacted the Arlington Massachusetts Police Department, which set off a rapid and impressive chain of events. Within a mere sixteen hours, Suzanne Trunfio and her dedicated team of the Arlington PD traced the owner’s family, eventually contacting her sister. The sister confirmed that the owner had indeed been ice skating on that very Maine pond a few winters ago when the wallet vanished into the snow, on the pond. Even though the young woman had since moved away from Arlington to attend school, the department’s swift detective work easily bridged the geographic gap.
The search reached a heartwarming conclusion when Officer Trunfio emailed me with the owner’s updated address in Salem, Massachusetts. The department expressed deep gratitude for my efforts with The Ring Finders , praising the work we do to return lost treasures to their rightful owners. Thanks to the seamless cooperation between my metal detecting efforts and an exemplary police department, this long-lost wallet is finally on its way back home. Remember, “If it matters to you, it matters to us.” I have the best job in the world and I love my job.
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Gold and Diamond Pendant Lost In The Scarborough Maine Beach Sand, Found With A Metal Detector

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On Thursday, June 3rd, I received a phone call at approximately 1:30 PM. John was in desperate need of my services after his necklace had broken.

He and a group of friends were enjoying their day at Ferry Beach, Scarborough, ME, when the chain snapped and his Gold and Diamond pendant vanished into the sand. John and his friends had already spent 45 frantic minutes searching the area around their setup, but unfortunately, the diamond pendant was nowhere to be found.
I told John I would be there in 30-40 minutes, depending on Route 1 traffic, through Saco, Maine and the Town of Scarborough, Maine. He mentioned he had a pretty good idea of where it dropped—about a 10’ x 10’ area. A small space like that should be quick… if the pendant was actually there!
Cheryl and I left as soon as I gathered up my equipment, and Cheryl loaded up her beach chair. If this recovery turned out to be a long one, she was going to enjoy the beautiful afternoon on the beach! 🏖️
Once we arrived, John met us in the parking lot. He and his friends were set up at an area of the beach known as “The Point.” I knew “The Point” well—I actually recovered an engagement ring for a client there a few years back!
After a short 5-10 minute walk from the parking lot, we arrived at the group’s location. John and a few friends pointed to an area between a backpack and a sign. A couple of other friends thought it was closer to the beach towels.
As you all know by now, I do not like to jump around while performing a search. I strictly grid search from Point A to Point B. Because of that, I decided to start at the towels and work my way toward the backpack and sign so I wouldn’t have to double back.
Just before swinging, I placed a small gold ring in the sand to calibrate my metal detector and let the client see and hear exactly what tone I was looking for. Calibration finished, it was time to hunt.
I had taken exactly 8 steps when I heard it—the unmistakable low tone of gold.
Could this really be the pendant after just 18 seconds of searching? 🤔
As I probed the warm sand with my pinpointer, I found the target. The moment the group saw it, screams of “Oh my God!” and “That was so fast!” rang out across the beach. Arms went into the air and applause broke out.
Relief, happiness, and big smiles—it never gets old. Always a feel-good moment!
So, even though Cheryl never even got the chance to set up her beach chair, I consider a fast recovery a great day. Another precious pendant is right back where it belongs. We truly have the best job in the world, and I love what I do!
Remember: “If it matters to you, it matters to us.” 💍

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Gold Wedding Ring Lost In Cape Elizabeth, Maine Leaves, Found With A Metal Detector

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On Tuesday, May 26th, I received the following voicemail,
Hi, my name is Missy D******. Um, I have a ring that needs locating. If you’re available, Um, it is a men’s, um, pretty heavy gold wedding band that was lost on Sunday afternoon. I know the general area where it may be. And yesterday we looked ourselves with the metal detector, but we only found like keys and nails. Um, so we’re hoping you might have some better luck. Uh, we are at ** ******* in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Um, and the phone number is 410-***-****. hoping you can help us out. Um, looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you. Bye.
I called Missy back and she told me that just a few days earlier, she and her husband Joe, had been doing yard work, on their property. Joe had been raking leaves, pulling dead vegetation and picking up downed branches, from the winter. Joe would then take those items, load up his John Deere Gator, and drive them to the composting area and dump the contents. At the end of the day, around 6-7pm, Joe noticed his wedding ring was no longer on his finger. Remembering some photos that had been taken around lunchtime, Joe and Missy looked at the photos, to see if Joe had his wedding ring on, at that time. Sure enough, at approximately 11:45am, there is a photo of Joe with his wedding ring ON his finger. Now, just 6 or so hours later, it was gone. After asking Missy many questions, Missy to me that Joe’s parents live next-door and at one point went over there and was inside their house. Joe had also gone inside his house and played with his 2 1/2 year old daughter, Imogen. Other than that, Joe had been outside for hours and hours, cleaning up their property. I told Missy I could search first thing in the morning. Missy would show me the areas Joe had been working in most and I would go from there. Joe and Missy had already borrowed a metal detector and had searched the most likely areas, the previous day, with finding the ring.
Once I arrived, I wasn’t prepared as to how big of an area needed to be searched. The most likely spots the ring would have come off, was around the house, where Joe had been collecting leaves and the other vegetation. Rings, typically don’t just fall off your finger. You are usually doing something like picking up all the items Joe had picked up. Joe was also tossing those items, into the Gator and there was a good chance his ring had come off around the house or dumped out back, near the composting area. Missy showed me the area around the house Joe had been working and the composting area. She and Joe really thought it would be in the composting area, among the branches or leaves and I wasn’t going to argue. It is definitely and area the ring could be hiding. I decided to start my search down in the composting area, since I was already there. The area had multiple areas where I could see where leaves, branches, grass clippings and food had been dumped. Not all were recently dumped and I decided to check all the areas. The area had already been searched with a metal detector, by Joe and just like Joe, I came up empty handed. I then decided to search the areas around thee house, where Joe had been picking up all the yard debris and was throwing it into the John Deere Gator. Again, I came up unsuccessful, in locating the Wedding Ring. I then started searching the entire property between the man made pond and the house. This is some of the area that Joe would have driven the Gator, to and from his work area, to his dump area. I really wasn’t confident the ring was going to be found, in this area. It’s not an area Joe had been working in but only traveling through. But, in searches like this, you need to be thorough , just in case. The yard was full of metal an I mean full. There seemed to be wiring, pipes and other assorted metal. I would find out later that in fact there was metal, buried all over the property, from years of different kinds of projects. This slowed me down immensely and I was able to search about 1/2 the yard, when I decided to call it a day. I had now been here a little over 3 hours and I would like to return to finish searching but would also like to have Joe there with me and point out the exact areas, he had been. I also wanted to break down some of the piles of leaves, branches and any other piles that could be hiding the wedding ring. Since the area was much larger than I anticipated, I also wanted to bring Gary Hill with me so that not only could we recheck areas already searched, we would search the remainder of the lawn and around his parents property. I let Missy know of my plan and she told me Joe would be home all weekend and he absolutely could help by breaking down the piles of debris. We decided that this up coming Sunday would be the day to resume the search.
So on Sunday, May 31st, Gary and I arrived nice and early, at 7:30am. Joe came right out to meet up and walked up around the property. Joe told us he remembered that he had also thrown some branches and brush, into a marshy area, behind one of yhe piles dumped leaves and branches. Awesome, a new area to search. Joe had to get back up to the house and do somethig, so Gary and I started searching the new area that Joe had thrown some branches. After searching the very wet area, the ring remained elusive. I started breaking down a pile of leaves, to flatten it out. The piles were deep of fresh and old leaves. I also threw a bunch of branches out into the marshy area, to get them out of the way. Gary would start searching some of the other piles. After 30-45 minutes, Joe returned with a rake and saw the one pile I had broken down didn’t need to be broken down any further. Joe thought for sure the ring would have been in that pile of leaves and branches. Joe then took us up to the area around the house and showed us where he was standing, when the photo, showing his ring at noonish, had been taken. Gary and I searched the area again. I had searched it a few days earlier and Joe had searched it almost a week ago. Still no wedding ring. I asked Gary to search the area of Joe’s Parents property, that Joe had traversed across. I would pick up where I had left off, in my previous search. With Joe still walking along with us, visually searching, I told him that Gary and I were out of options. I wanted to check the piles of leaves one more ime before we finished. This time I started on the pile to the far right. I was a large pile of leaves that had been searched with a metal detector by Joe, myself and Gary. As I was finishing up the area, Joe asked if he should level the pile down even more, since it was still a large pile. I told him to go for it and I would be back in a few minutes, after I searched the next pile of leaves. Just about 3 minutes later, I hear Gary yelling, Dennis, Dennis, I got it. WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I rushed over to where Gary was and he to Joe and I that he has a solid low tone, ringing up as a 34 on his TID. Definitely in the gold range. Gary said he saw just a glimpse of gold when he heard the target but the object had disappeared back in the pile of leaves. As Joe and I stood there watching Gary, Missy and Imogen heard the commotion and were comng across the lawn. I moved up to the pile as Gary was probing the pile with his pinpointer. We then heard the pinpointer go of and Gary started removind a few leaves at a time, so as to not move the target once again. Finally, a white gold ring appeared. After almost another 3 hours of two of us searching, Joe’s Weddind Ring had been found, by Gary. Just crazy that this pile of leaves had been searched 4-5 times but until Joe was breaking it down, the ring had stayed hidden. Joe di tell us that a week ago he had moved some of thee leaves and may have pushed the ring either deeper into the leaves or to the back side and only now reappeared as he was breaking the pile down further. To Gary and I, it didn’t matter. The ring had been found. We left the ring where it was found and let Imogen “find” the ring and give it to “Daddy”. A very sweet moment, captured on video. Everyone was in disbelief that after maybe 11-12 man hours of searching a very large property, Joe had his wedding ring back, thanks to our newest ring finder, Imogen.
So, Gary and I don’t like giving up and continued to searh and it paid off. With Imogen, Joe and Missy’s help, another ring was back on the finger. A true team effort. “We have the best job in the world. I love my job. If it matters to you, it matters to us.”
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Diamond Engagement Ring Lost In Freeport, Maine Grass, Found With A Metal Detector

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Late Tuesday, May 26th, I received the following voicemail.

“Hi there, my name is Hillary S***. I found you from Facebook. I lost my diamond wedding ring. Uh this morning. And um, I’ve been searching for it and I’m having no luck. I live in Freeport, Maine and I’m wondering if you are around and could maybe help me find it. I’m hoping for a miracle. Um, I basically put it in my pocket. I was heading out the door and, um, put it in my pocket on my way to drop my kids off at school. So there’s a couple of locations here in FreeportME where I’ve already asked permission if I could bring somebody over to do a metal detector kind of thing. So one place would be just the Freeport Montessori School , which is right in front of the Town of Freeport Library here. Um, and also through the trees, which these 2 places are like within 30 seconds of my house and then my own driveway. So it’s about a 2 minute drive to each of these locations from each other. Um, and in fact, through the trees, they have a metal detector. So this like teenage boy has been over there. trying to help locate it, um, But so far no success. I’ve searched through my car, thinking it fell out of my pocket while I was driving. But anyways, if somebody could give me a call back, uh, my phone number is area code 607-***-***. That’s 607-***-*** and again, my name is Hillary. Um, and I’ll be around all week. So if somebody’s able to come, it would be great to talk about what you charge and how it works and figure it’s better than nothing. All right, thanks so much. Bye- bye.”

I called Hilary as soon as I saw the voicemail. Hilary was very upset and told me that she has been wearing this engagement for 16 years and wanted to do everything possible to locate it. Hilary is also 8 months pregnant and this morning her wedding and engagement rings were not going on her finger because they were so swollen. She had taken them off, the previous evening because the were so tight, on her finger. Hilary has two children that she needed to get them to school and was a little behind. Since she couldn’t get the rings on her finger, she put them in her pocket, intending to put them on in a few minutes, when she returned home or whenever the swelling went down. Hilary also told me that she had put her keys, in the same pocket as her rings, along with her phone. Hilary and the children went out the door and each child was dropped off at their different schools, respectively. The entire trip to both schools, with getting out of the vehicle was only 15 minutes or less. Once Hilary arrived home, she reached into her pocket to try putting her rings on again and only her wedding ring was there. The engagement ring was missing. Panic set in and Hilary immediately went out side and searched her vehicle and gravel driveway. The engagement rig wasn’t found. She then went to the Montessori School school in Freeport , Maine and to the Through the Trees school where one of her children attend. This is a non profit outdoor school starting for preschoolers. The engagemet ring was not found at either location. Hilary told me that the owner of the outdoor school has a metal detector and that both the owner and his 13 year old son had been searching for her ring but have not been able to find it. At both schools, she had gotten out of her vehicle and the area at both were very small, as to where the ring could be. Hilary’s husbund had also been searching their property and vehicle, along with the two schools. I could tell Hilary was just beside herself and wanted to find this so badly. This ring represented 16 years of her and her husband’s life together, with two children and a third on the way. I told Hilary that I was already booked early the next morning but it was for a water shutoff valve, that wasn’t going anywhere and I would search for her ring first, then the valve. We agreed to meet at her house at 7:00am, bright and early. I would also see if GH would be able to help, now that I had two jobs lined up and had no idea how long each would take.
Gary and I arrived propmtly at 7:00am and Hilary showed us the area of her gravel drivway that she had parked in. Even though Hilary and her husband had visually searched the driveway, rings have a way of hiding, in the loose gravel and possibly even hidden underneath the loose gravel. The area was very small and we didn’t find the ring but did come up with a dollar or so, in coins, just under the gravel, with no digging required. As Gary and I were driving up to Freeport, we both agreed that the ring most likely came out of her pocket, when taking her keys or phone out of her pocket. Unfortunately, it didn’t fall out, in her driveway. With the possibility of the ring coming out, of her pocket, in her vehicle, I brought my Borescope, so we could check every crevice around her seat. The small camera at the end of the Borescope can get into places that the human eyes can’t get to. After a search of the vehicle, still no ring. Off to the first school, Through the Trees. The school was literally just 2-3 minutes, from her house. She had dropped her first child off here and had backed into the gravel parking lot, got out, walked across the drivway and a grassy area, to a picnic table, where she left her child, with the other students. Hilary then returned to her car and drove to the Montosorri School, just another few minutes down the road. As the three of us stood in the driveway, Gary and I went over the search areas. The gravel parking lot and the path across the grass, to the picnic table. I didn’t have high hopes of finding the ring here as the owner and his son had already searched. I asked Gary which side he wanted to search and he took the grassy path and picnic tabe as he was closer to those locations. Ok, I will take the gravel parking lot. Within 90 seconds of searching I hear Gary say, “I got it”. Both Hilary and I swung around and looked at Gary and I said to Hilary, “He found your ring”.. Hilary looked shoked and said something along the line of, “Are you sure? I don’t want to look and be disappointed”. We walked over to Gary and he asked Hilary if that was her ring. Gary hadn’t touched the ring and it still was in the grass. Hilary couldn’t see it until gary told her that it was right in front of his detector. When the ring came into focus, beneath the grass, Hilary says “Oh my God, THATS CRAZY, OH MY GOD, THATS AWESOME.” She then is just beaming ear to ear and puts her hand to her face and says “Oh you guys are the best” and let out an relieved laugh. When I asked her how she felt, she said she didn’t know what to say. I did post a very short video of Hilary seeing her ring, after Gary found it. Please check it out. She was still amazed and in disbelief. Hilary then showed the owner of the school, that her ring had been found and another mother that had just showed up and everyone was very excited, laughing and smiling. As Gary and I drove off, we could see Hilary still beaming, showing her ring and admiring it, back on her finger. So how did Hilary’s engagement ring end up there? The most likely explanation is that after dropping her child off at the picnic table, Hilary walked back towards her vehicle and removed the keys out of her pocket, causing the ring to fall out.
Another ring back on the finger, another smiling client and I’ll say it again, “We have the best job in the world. I love my job. If it matters to you, it matters to us.”😃💍❤️🙏

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Gold Wedding Ring Lost In Sanford, Maine Garden Found With A Metal Detector

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Saturday afternoon, May 23rd, I received the following text

“Hi Dennis, I found your ring finder service on Facebook. This afternoon I was doing some gardening,in my yard, in Sanford, Maine and lost my ring in the brush next to my house and am unable to find it. I was wondering if you have any availability to come help locate it for me?
My name is Andrew by the way“

I called Andrew back, once I saw the text. Andrew told me that earlier that afternoon he had been pulling dead vegetation from two different above ground “box gardens.” He was then taking the pulled vegetation and throwing it into an overgrown area of thorn bushes, leaves, branches and other dead vegetation, just 20-30 feet from the gardens. At one point, while pulling the vegetation up, Andrew felt his gold wedding ring coming off his finger. Andrew slid the ring back onto his finger and got back to work. Not five minutes later, Andrew noticed his wedding ring was now missing from his finger. Since he had only been between the garden and pile of dead vegetation, just a few feet away, Andrew thought the ring would be in the pile of vegetation he had been throwing. After a visual search of that area, he couldn’t find his ring. Andrew the visually searched the path across his lawn, he had been walking, to and from the gardens and vegetation pile. Still no ring. He then looked around the box gardens but still couldn’t find his wedding ring. This is when he texted me and he also decided not to search any longer, in the fear he may actually move the ring, further into the vegetation or move it out of the area all together. Andrew then asked me if I could search the area, the next morning, Sunday. I agreed to meet him at his home in Sanford, Maine at 7:00am.

I arrived prompty at 7:00am and Andrew shoed me the very small area that the ring could be in. Andrew really thought his wedding ring would be up in the vegetation, leaves and thorn bushes. Since we were ext to the box gardens I ran my coils over them first. I received some targets but nothing in the gold range. Lots of beeps and chirps turned out to be mostly ferrous items and one non ferrour target, a modern penny. We then walked towards the vegetation pile and I searched the grass path along the way, but still no ring. I then started searching the leaves, vegetation, thorn bushes and still no ring. Andrew put on a parof heavy duty glove and started pulling the thorny vines out and I was moving dead vegetation and branches, out of the way. We did this for 15-20 minutes and still no success. I then expanded the search to his lawn, searching a much larger area than he had been in. The wedding ring was still missing. I knew it had to be here, but where? Andrew had only been in a 20-30 foot area. I went back to the box gardens and started searching them again but just some small chirping and no non ferrous targets at all. We then researched the leaves and expanded the area up towards the road. Could his ring have flown off his finger, that far? Andrew didn’t thing so bue we searched anyways, just to be safe. Again, no success. Where could that ring be. Even though I had searched the box gardens twice, my mind kept telling me that was the only logical place it could be. The garden box was maybe 12-14 inches deep and the ring gould be missed if it was that deep. Andrew said he wasn’t digging in the garden, just pulling the vegetation and then filling in the holes. So, I took my men’s gold test ring, dug a hole to the bottom of the box and placed the ring on the bottom. Once I covered the hole in I swung my coil over the area. The ring was not being found, by my detector. At a depth of up to 14 inches, it wasn’t being picked up but it was picking up other items, all ferrous.. I told Andrew we would need to remove the soil and scan it. Andrew retreived a large garbage bag and ripped it, so he could put the soil on it, Box Garden #1 was the one he was working on when he noticed his ring missing and he had been working on one specific corner. So, That is where he started shoveling. His first shovel full of soil, produced no targets, as did the second and third shovel full of soil. The forth shovel full was now at the bottom of the box and I received a very loud, repeatable low tone, reading 26-27, on my TID (Target ID). I couldn’t see the target but told Andrew that this just had to be his wedding ring, it just sounded so good. As I started brushing the soil away, I saw a very small color of silver, white gold? Yes, it was Andrews wedding ring. WOW!!! Andrew yelled out in excitment and I will admit, so did I. Over an hour and fifteen minutes in a very small area. The box garden was the only place that made sense to me, when I couldn’t find it in the brush or lawn. As I saw where the ring came from, I realized that the ring was not only in the box garden but it was up against the side wall. When I was swinging the coil, the coil would be stopped by the side wall and with the depth the ring was at, my coil couldn’t get completely over the ring. Possibly it was one of the chirps I had heard but I will never know. I don’t like giving up and removing the soil was the only way to be certain the ring was or was’t in the box garden.
Andrew couldn’t believe his ring was that deep. I suspect that when he pulled some of the vegetation, his ring fell down into the hole and he just filled the hole in, along the wall. Andrew immediately put his wedding ring back on and shook my hand, thanking me for finding his ring, where he didn’t think it would be. Andrew also told me that he would not be taking anymore chances and would be getting his wedding ring re-sized. A great idea. Another ring back on the finger and another smile on their face. We have the best job in the world and I love my job. Remember, “If it matters to you, it matters to us.”😀❤️🙏

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Engagement Ring Lost In Scarborough, Maine Backyard Grass, Found With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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On Saturday evening, May 23rd, I received the following text message.

“Hi Dennis! I was directed to you on facebook as I had posted about losing my engagement ring in my backyard today. I tried a metal detector to see if I could find it but no luck! I was wondering if you might be able to help. I’m in the Town of Scarborough, Maine.”

I replied by calling the number back, rather than keep texting. It moves things along much faster and it now being after 6:00pm, I would like to search while there was still some light. Isabelle told me that eariler in the afternoon,she had some family and friends over and were enjoying the day, out in the ”small” backyard. Isabelle has a young daughter and the daughter was having a blast, running all over the place. Isabelle would chase her down and bring her back where everyone else was. The 2-3 year old also played on the swing set ans was having the time of her life. As the afternoon passed Isabelle noticed her engagement ring was missing. She knew she had it on earlier because she had showed it to some of the family and friends. Isabelle figured the engagement ring came off, while rounding up her daughter. Isabelle posted a Facebook story and someoe let her borrow their metal detector. Isabelle and her father searched for the engagement ring, without any success. They had never used a metal detector before and all the beeps and chirps were overwhelming for them. That’s when some people on Facebook had told her to contact me. Isabelle asked if I could come over in the morning, Sunday, but I was already booked in Sanford, for 7:00am. It was scheduled to rain later Sunday and I was also leaving at 4:00pm, to attend a concert, in Boston. When Isabelle had given me her address, I knew it was only 7-8 miles from my house. I told her I would be right there and search tonight, as I had maybe an hour and a half hours of daylight left. So I packed up my equiptment and headed to Scarborough.

Once I arrived, Isabelle and her father showed me the backyard. It was small and I was estimating I could cover the entire area, in approximately 30 minutes. There was quite a bit of metal, in the yard, that had to be moved but not to bad. I am a creature of habit and I always like to pefor a grid search and this search would start at the house and I would work my way down towards the swing set, moving metal items as I went along. The search was procedeing nicely but the engagement ring remained elusive as I approached the halfway point, in the yard. Still plenty of real estate to check. As I was approaching the swing set, at the end of the yard, before a slight drop off in the yard, I still hadn’t found the ring. Before I went down the slope, Isabelle’s father asked her if she had gone down there. She replied she had, on multiple occasions, while trying to corral her young daughter. Ok, I started behing the swing set and started searching the dropoff. As I approached the garage I realized I was running out of room to search. Maybe another 5 minutes and I would have covered the entire yard. Then what? As I ws thinking about my next move and what questions, I could ask Isabelle, I received the signal I had been hoping for. A loud, repeatable low tone, coming from the grass. As I was pulling my pinpointer out, I saw the ring, in the grass. I bent down picked it up, I heard her father say, “No Way.” I then looked at Isabelle, showed her the ring, saying “Is that it?” A very happy smiling Isabelle replied, ”Yeah, That’s it, Thank you.”. Always, always a fantastic feeling to show the owner their ring, that had been lost. Isaabelle immediately put the engagement ring on her finger, admiring the ring, once again.

Another ring back on the finger and I’ll say it again, “We have the best job in the world. I love my job. If it matters to you, it matters to us💍😀❤️🙏

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Four Long Lost Property Markers Found In South Portland, Maine, With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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I received a call from Robert, concerning finding 3 of his property markers, on his South Portland, Maine property. Robert knew where one of his property markers were, in the back Northeast corner of his property. That marker was just 7-8 years old and was put in when a new road and development had been put in, on the backside of his property. That marker would be a great starting point, to measure off of. Robert is looking to put a fence up along the backside of his property, where the newer road and development had been put in. He also wants to put a fence from the Northeast corner, to the Southeast corner. Ok, simple enough, especially since Robert had the dimensions of the lot and a newer known marker. We made an appointment to search on Saturday May 23rd, for 8:00am.

I told Robert that I would need him to sign a waiver, acknowledging that I am not a Licensed Surveyor. I can certainly find metal in the ground but I can not “verify” that the markers I find are in the correct location. The property markers could have been removed or moved all together, at some point and then put back in the ground. And they may not have been put back, in the correct location. Robert understood that I am not a Licensed Surveyor and agreed to sign the waiver. People have been sued because property markers were not in the correct location and I am not going to be sued, for trying to help others. FULL DISCLOSURE: I AM NOT A LICENSED SURVEYOR. I am just metal detectorist that can help you find metal, in the ground. What you decide to do with the found markers is up to you. I cannot tell you what you may or may not be able to do, with the property markers. Putting a fence up, cutting down trees, etc.. Only a Licensed Surveyor can do that. Procede at your own risk.

I was promptly met Saturday morning, by Robert. He showed me the know marker and we decided that the best way to procede would be to measure 63’ to the missing marker, in the Northwest corner. I grabbed my 300’ tape measure and started measuring towards the missing marker. Once 63’ was attained, I looked down and couldn’t see anything. I didn’t have my metal detector, since it was down near the known marker. I grabbed my pinpointer, searched the area and received a target. I took my trowel out of my pouch, dug a hole and there was a broken property marker, just a half ince under the saoil, right at 63’. PERFECT, and easy enough. We then decided to search for the Southwest corner’s marker. This would be a little more challenging because there was a row trees running most of the distance between the two markers. We couldn’t measure through the trees. Robert thought the marker would be very close and in line with the trees, in an area right next to or under a bush, near his driveway. As I started searching around the bush, I wasn’t getting the signal I was looking for. We dug a few ferrous items but no property marker. As we were searching the area Robert’s neighbor came out to see what we were up to. Robert explained we were looking for the markers and his neighbor told me that it would be nice to know where they were but had never seen his markers at all and he has lived in his house since 1995. His neighbor did tell us the he was told the markeron the other side of his driveway lined up with the telephone, supposedly. Since the distance from that marker to the marker we were looking for was 80’ apart, we could locate Roberts neighbors marker an then just measure the 80”. Lets go. Once we arrived down across from the telephone, I started searching and almost immediately received a nice ferrous target. I was given permission to dig, by the neighbor and what do you know, another property marker had been found. Sweet!!! Now we could measure 80’ down to the property marker , near the bush and hopefully locate it. Once we measured the 80’ it was another success. The marker was found fairly quickly. We now measured 81’, down towards the Southeast corner of the property and hopefully find the marker. The area we came upon was once again across from a telephone pole and a broken telephone pole. The area also had a large steel cable and anchor, holding the poles, in place. As I searched the area, my detector kept going off because of all the metal, of the cable and anchor. Only one thing to do. I would grab my Root Slayer and just start digging around all the metal. After 5 minutes or so, SUCCESS!!! The final property marker had been found. Robert was very pleased, as was his neighbor, who now knows where two of his markers are. Robert had bought some heavy duty metal rods and pounded them in so the marker locations could be easily seen. This was a fairly easy search, compared to others I have done where the markers in in thick, thorny vegetation and others where the markers are not found. Robert now plans to put his fence up and I wish him well. I arrived looking for 3 property markers and left after finding four markers. I have the best job in the world, I love my job ❤️🙏

PSA: Many people will remove the markers, in their front yards because they find them unsightly and a pain to mow around. You really shouldn’t do that. When I purchased my home in 1993, I was told by my neighbor that one of the previous owners had pulled the two front markers out, just for those reasons. I have never been able to locate those markers. Don’t forget, your property marker is also your neighbors property marker and shows the boundary, of BOTH properties. DO NOT MOVE THESE MARKERS. In the State of Maine, it is against the law to do so. You are not legally allowed to drive or push a property pin further into the ground yourself, even if your only intention is to make your lawn look more aesthetic.
Under Maine law, altering a property marker carries strict legal consequences. ONLY A LICENSED SURVEYOR ARE ALLOWED TO ALTER PROPERTY MARKERS. You should always contact a Licensed Surveyor, should you need to do anything, with a property marker. Again, I am not a Licensed Surveyor and don’t pretend to be. I’m just a guy with a metal detector. So, if you would like your property markers found, I’m your guy, once the waiver is signed.

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Sterling Silver Pendant With Brother’s Ashes Lost In A Bridgton Maine Pond, 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 #213

At 9:45am Thursday, May 21st, I received a call from AJ. His wife, Michelle, had taken their young children to to Woods Pond Beach, in Bridgton, Maine, the previous day, as it was a very hot day. The water was very cold but Michelle waded into the pond with one of her young children, to a depth of waist deep. While wading in the waist deep water, her young child accidently grabbed ahold of her necklace. The necklace broke and the pendant that had been on the necklace was gone, into the pond. The necklace itself was grabbed before it hit the water but the pendant was nowhere to be found. Michelle visually searched, looking for the shiny sterling silver pendant, but couldn’t find it. AJ explained that this wasn’t just any pendant because the pendant contained some of her late brothers ashes and Michelle was very upset that the pendant urn, in the shape of a 4 leaf clover, was now missing. WOW!!! I knew right then that I needed to help and told AJ, I could probably be there, in the early afternoon and I would call him when I was on my way and he could meet me there, to pinpoint the location that Michelle had been in. AJ had a fairly precise location, as to where Michelle had been, when the pendant disappered into the cold water.

Once off the phone with AJ, I called Gary Hill to see if he was avaible to assist me. I knew the pond water would be very cold (50-55 degrees) and the air temperture was only in the high 50’s. This would be a cold search but we couldn’t wait for warmer weather, with her brothers ashes missing. Gary was available and I told him to bring a change of warm clothes, beach towel and his Excalibur diving metal detector,as we were about to get wet. I told Gary I would pick him up, on the way to Bridgton, at approximately 11:30am. It would take us an hour and 15 minutes to get there so I called AJ and let him know Gary and I would there just before 1:00pm. As Gary and I were driving, we thought that Gary would go in and search the specific area that Michelle had been in. This would give Gary his first water recovery and had nothing to do with me not wanting to go into the cold, cold water. I told Gary that if the pendant wasn’t found in 10 minutes or so, I would jump in and start expanding the search area, so he wouldn’t freeze to death. Experience has shown us that lost jewelry is usually never exactly where people think it is and I did want Gary to have all the fun. The pendant could have launched itself once the necklace had been grabbed. The location could be off by 10 feet or so.

Once we arrived, we were promptly met by AJ. He pointed out the area Michelle had been in. She had been in an area maybe 20-30 feet , east from a dock. The dock has metal pipes and some stairs. Michelle had been just the stairs and was between the next two pipes, but not out as far as the third pipe, near the end of the dock. Gary bravely entered the very cold water, as I shivered on shore with AJ. Gary was performing a North – South grid search from about 30 feet from the dock and making his way, towards the dock. It really wasn’t a large area but it was a very clean area. Gary wasn’t getting any targets and this allowed him to quickly cover the area. After 10 minutes, as Gary was approaching the dock, I told AJ, I would go in and eapand the search. I would start about 20 feet to the east, from where Gary started and would work my way towards the dock. Once this area was covered, we would continue the same grid pattern but would stark working our way towards the shore. As I was walking out to where I would start searching, I also was receiving no targets, at all. Once I arrived to where I wanted to be, I started my search and again, no targets on my first pass. Gary still had no targets either. Another pass and still the same. I started my third pass and finally received my first target. After sizing up and pinpointing the location, Pressed the long handled sand scoop into the sand, with my foot. I pulled the scoop out of the water and shook it, to get the sand out, leaving only rocks and hopefully a nice shiny pendant. As I looked into the scoop, I did see the rocks and a shiny 4 leaf clover pendant, containing the ashes of Michelle’s brother. I yelled over to Gary and told him that I had it then yelled to AJ, further away, on the shore. AJ replied to me but I couldn’t hear him. Gary’s chattering teeth were to loud. We quickly made our way to shore where a very happy AJ awaited us. He was so thankful and told us that Michelle would be very relieved her brother would be back with her.
Gary and I dried ourselves with our towels, got into some dry clothes and put the heat up high, on the ride home. We were both so happy to have been able to help Michelle and AJ.. Jewely may be replaced but you cannot replace a loved ones ashes. It is recoveries like this that keeps Gary and I going. There is no better feeling than to know you helped someone with such a sentimental item. Once home I received the following message from AJ..

“Thank you again my wife and I truly appreciate you guys coming out and finding it for us” She cried when I told her thats how happy she was. Thank you for finding it for us! It truly meant alot to my wife and im glad you guys where able to help us out truly as she was devastated when she lost it…”

A beautiful conclusion to a troubling and devistating time for Michelle. I later received a photo of Michelle, reunited with her pendant. Her smile says it all. So, NOT just another pendant back around the neck but an irreplacable pendant back around the neck. I would loved to have been able to hand the pendant to Michelle but things wcould have ended any better. We love our jobs. We have the best jobs in the world. Remember, “If It Matters To You, It Matters To Us”❤️🙏

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