# How to find lost keys with a metal detector Tag | The Ring Finders

Keys Lost in Snow, Recovered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois

  • from Rockford (Illinois, United States)
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Sunday morning, 12/29/2025,  I received a text from Rachel asking if I might be able to help find a set of missing keys that were dropped 2 days ago. The keys went missing right before a big snow storm hit. She dropped them Friday night while she was out walking her dogs before the storm. She had spent hours shoveling snow and looking for them on Saturday and Sunday morning. Sunday morning she found me on TheRingFinders.com.

When I arrived Rachel showed me the path that her and her dogs took to go on their walk Friday night. I started my search from her apartment sidewalk, across the street, to a grass area were she let the dogs run around and play. A hilly area, where Rachel walked along the top of a hill and walked back along the bottom of the hill. So I searched the loop that she walked but, didn’t find them. So I then started searching inside of her loop. On the slippery,  snow covered hillside I got a solid signal! But I knew if I picked up one foot and tried to brush the snow away I would slip and fall down the slope! So I slid down the hill across the signal area! When I looked back, there was the black Steelers lanyard and her keys, that we were looking for!!

Success!!

Another smile for the book!!

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Lost keys found in Richmond, Virginia.

  • from Charlottesville (Virginia, United States)
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I was contacted by Nancy about a set of keys and key fobs lost while raking and doing yard work. We talked about all the work she had done, places she had been, and went through all the possibilities we could think of. Nancy was extremely well thought out, and had already checked everywhere I could think of. So it was time to do a detailed search of the yard, leaves, landscaping, and bushes with my detector. A lot to cover, but a big target that should jump out if I swing over it. Well, after feeling like I covered everything, no keys. The shed had already been searched, but to be through I figured another set of eyes on it couldn’t hurt. While checking the shed Nancy started removing some of the tools and recounting what items she had used. One of the items was the blower which she pulled out and placed on one of two black wrought iron benches in front of the shed. At that point she realized and remembered exactly where the keys were. After opening the shed she had laid them over the arm of the bench where the black fobs blended in perfectly. We had both walked within inches of these keys several times without seeing them. Talk about hiding in plain sight. Thank goodness going through the process led to Nancy finding the keys. I was in total disbelief when I saw them, but very relieved they were found.
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