I got a call from a lady saying that she lost her engagement ring in Lake Huron at Crescent State Park in Michigan. My daughter and I traveled 2 1/2 hours to meet the couple. After they showed me where it should be in the water, I got searching and found it in about 15 minutes. It was worth driving that distance to see the smiles on their faces.
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Received a text from a young lady that stated she had lost her wedding ring set (two rings soldiered together) in a river that she was tubing on Friday July 3rd and asked if I could try and find it.
I said absolutely! The water was only about 2-3 feet deep and she lost it just before some rapids. So after work, I make the 3 plus hour drive and get to the spot. Grabbed my gear and headed down the little hill towards the river’s edge to assess the area.
Once in the water, I needed to try and figure out where she was based on the text message and screenshots received. I finally found what I thought was the spot and I get a good 72 VDI ring signal! It sounded loud and on top! The only issue was it was under a big log. I rolled the log to the right and scanned again. Now I’m really getting a good signal!! I went to get my goggles because I couldn’t see with the water moving and the suns glare. As I was coming back to the spot, the same “SUNS GLARE” actually shined down and I could see a silvery/white gold circle shining!! I reached down and pull it up!
I had to drive a ways to get cell signal back, but once I did I sent her the pictures and she was very happy!
Then I had to drive an hour to their house where I met her husband at the door! I said, “I hear your wife lost some rings!” He said, “Yes!” They both couldn’t believe it was still there and I found them! (on July 8th) Needless to say he was very excited to get them back as well!
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Total ring recoveries since joining “The Ring Finders” 115 total!
Ring count for 2026: 77 (20 – recoveries)
GOLD – 21 (16 – recoveries)
GOLD/STAINLESS – 1
PLATNIUM – 4 (4-recoveries)
SILVER – 16
TUNGSTEN – 2
JUNK – 33
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“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS, BURY THE DRAMA!”
I got a call from a lady saying that her husband lost his wedding ring at Sanford Lake in Michigan. I met them both there to try to find it. The husband said he was in about a 75 foot long area along the beach in the water. He said that he didn’t go out farther than 30 feet. He was playing with his kids and crawling on the lake bottom. I figured that I would start at where he could crawl and keep his head above water. In less than five minutes and my first signal, I scooped up his ring.They were both happy to have it back and it made my day to get it back to him.
Nick contacted me and said that his wife had lost her wedding band while preparing a raised plant bed, but she wasn’t sure which one. He and his wife has a matching tungsten carbide band set. The first bed I checked had a good signal, but it turned out to be a larger deep signal. The second bed was larger in size, but all of them had galvanized metal sheeting for the side walls. That was a problem, but I managed to work around it. In the second bed I found a signal that was showing a 30 on the Manticore, but was close to the metal side wall so that number may have been skewed. That 30 on the Manticore turned out to be her ring. It was about four inches deep. The total seach time was only about twelve minutes.
Received a call this morning about a lost wedding band. The lady had been on a walking trail last night and lost her wedding ring which was a three ring set.
Her husband and her found two of them right away but the third one couldn’t be found. I gridded and searched the area this morning for two hours and
didn’t find it until I went to the opposite side of the trail and there it was.
Happy to find it for her and I know she was grateful to have it back.
Brandon was a referral from fellow Ring Finder, Alan Seeney. Brandon got in touch after losing a very sentimental gold ring in his friends backyard in Middletown, DE. The ring was was on a chain around his neck when he was horsing around with some kids. He discovered at some point the chain broke and the ring dropped. He and his friends searched for hours. He even purchased a metal detector in hopes of finding himself. Countless folks purchase or rent a metal detector in an attempt to find themselves but in most cases they end up calling a ring finder anyway. The experience of the detectorist is more important then the machine….though the machine is important too. I arrived at Brandon’s friends house later that same day and set my Minelab Manticore Metal Detector for gold…and went to work scanning that backyard. A gold ring on the surface has a very unique, booming signal…so I knew the signal I was listening for. 10 minutes into the search….BOOM…the signal I was hoping for. I looked down and there was this large beautiful gold ring!!! I was very happy to be able to find Brandon’s ring for him!
When Brittany’s house burned to the ground, she lost nearly everything. Among the devastation were priceless family heirlooms and treasured jewelry that could never truly be replaced. Hoping that something had survived, she reached out to me through The Ring Finders for help.
When I arrived, Brittany showed me where she believed her jewelry had been before the fire. The home was reduced to ashes, twisted metal, and debris, so every scoop had to be carefully sifted by hand.
After a patient search through the rubble, hope turned into success. I recovered three sets of earrings, her ring, a bracelet, and a necklace. Seeing those cherished family pieces emerge from the ashes made all the hard work worthwhile.
There are still a few items missing, but the search isn’t over. I’ll be returning another day to continue looking in hopes of recovering the remaining family treasures.
Even after a devastating fire, it’s amazing what can survive. Recovering sentimental items like these is about so much more than finding jewelry—it’s about helping someone reclaim a small piece of what they thought was lost forever.
I was out detecting a beach in Michigan when I found this Memorial pendant. It had a thumb print and a name with dates on the back. I put it on the local facebook page and was able to find the owner. It turns out that it belonged to a young man whose grandfather died. I mailed it out to him and his mother recorded a message from him thanking me. This is the most rewarding hobby to have. You can watch the full video of the find on YouTube at the ringmeister. The message from Hunter is one of the shorts.
This little was playing on the sprinklers when they lost their 14k gold ring. The mom bought a metal detector and searched for hours but could not find it. She finally found Ring Finders. We searched for about an hour before it was found. My partner Jeff went over it twice without picking it up. When I went over it, it was a poor signal and read as “foil” but decided at this point to look anyways. It was the smallest child’s ring I have ever seen. They were all so happy that it was finally found!
Hello Neighbors! My name is Amos and I am your local detectorist that can help you to recover your freshly lost jewelry or jewelry lost long ago. I’ve been into metal detecting for a long time but not until the last three years has it become more then a hobby. I just recently joined this worldwide group of Detectorists, ‘The Ring Finders” that want to do their best to recover your most treasured possessions. I have already helped numerous friends find keys and rings locally but figured now is the time to help my “Other Neighbors” in Vermont!! This Photo is from three years ago, my third ring located. I had just switched from the Minelab Equinox to the Manticore. If you notice by the screen, I was just learning the new technology and had not made any adjustments to the machine. Thanks for looking!
