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

September 7th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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🚨 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐀 𝟏𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐒𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐊! 🚨

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.
All three attempts came up completely empty. 🛑

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:
𝐻𝑎𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦? 🤔

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…
𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐆!!! 🔥

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: “𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓! 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒!” 📣

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… “𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞.” 🙏

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, “𝑰’𝒎 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌.”

Matt looked at the ring, then back at us, and replied: “𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆.” ❤️

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐈 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞! 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝.

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 Wedding Ring Lost In The Goose Rocks Beach Sand, Found With A Metal Detector, In Kennebunkport, Maine

August 28th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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💍 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇? 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐘’𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐃! 🌊🏖️

With Point Sebago now in our rearview mirror, Cheryl and I were heading to Goose Rocks Beach (GRB) in Kennebunkport Maine. I was on the phone with Brody, who explained the situation. He, his wife, and their young child had been enjoying a beautiful day at GRB. Before heading into the water for a swim, Brody took off his gold wedding ring and placed it safely inside the cupholder of his beach chair.

Once he finished swimming, the family spent several more hours relaxing on the shore before finally packing up their gear. They loaded everything into their vehicle and began the drive back home to the Boston area, preparing for work the next morning.

Then came that all-too-familiar moment of panic. 🛑 Brody remembered his wedding ring. He checked the chair, but the cupholder was completely empty. He rushed back to the beach to search his old setup spot, but as we all know, once under the sand, these rings are very difficult to find.

🧭 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐒 & 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐃
Brody then gave me the exact location on GRB and told me the ring should be somewhere between the seaweed from the high tide mark and the kayaks, closer to the dune grass. This gave me a solid, specific search window to target.

The late afternoon sun was casting long shadows across Goose Rocks Beach by the time Cheryl and I arrived. Because Brody’s setup had been high up on the dry sand, we didn’t have to worry about incoming tides or shifting water, but the soft, powdery sand of GRB can swallow a gold ring instantly.

I decided to start the grid search near the seaweed and grid search horizontally to the water. I would search north to south and work my way towards the kayaks. There were not many targets at all, that high up on the beach

⚡ 𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐘!
The area wasn’t large and after 10 minutes or so, I heard the low tone I had been hoping for and anticipating! 🎧

As I kept swinging the coil over the area, trying to pinpoint the exact spot under the M15 coil, I could see the outline of a gold ring in the sand. I told Cheryl, “I can see the ring, in the sand,” to which she replied from 10–15 feet away, “I can see it from here!” 😮
I removed the ring from the sand and verified it was actually Brody’s gold wedding ring. I immediately recorded a video for Brody, telling him I was leaving the beach because I found the ring, panning the camera down to reveal his beautiful gold band. 📱✨

🚗 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟏.𝟓-𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍
I sent the video to Brody, who called me back instantly, expressing his immense gratitude. Since he and his family had already left the area, we made plans to return the ring the following weekend. He would make the 1.5-hour drive right back to Kennebunkport Maine to get his ring back.
The next weekend, I drove down to GRB and met Brody for the very first time. I returned his wedding ring with those exact same kayaks in the background! Brody and his wife thanked me immensely, and as we shook hands to say goodbye, all I could think of was: 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒋𝒐𝒃 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅. 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒋𝒐𝒃. ❤️🤠

💪 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒. 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐎𝐎𝐍. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊! 🎩☘️ Ring Finders of Maine #258, #259, #260
Cheryl and I were finally ready for a little down time. After rushing down to Old Orchard Beach to recover a sentimental Valentine’s gifted ring, to then rushing to Point Sebago for a successful water recovery, to finally rushing to Kennebunkport for another successful wedding ring recovery… we were absolutely pooped! 💨

The final stats for an unforgettable afternoon:
🕒 Approximately 4.5 hours
🚗 110 miles driven
💍 3 successful ring recoveries!

We were officially ready to relax.

🔍 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋? 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏! 📲
If you or someone you know has lost a wedding ring, heirloom, keys, or any other metal object of sentimental value, don’t lose hope! The Ring Finders of Maine offer professional metal detecting recovery services across the state. Whether your item was lost deep in the Maine woods, buried in the soft beach sand, or dropped underwater in one of our beautiful lakes, we have the specialized high-end gear and experience to track it down. Time is often of the essence—especially with shifting sands and tides—so don’t wait to reach out! Send us a direct message right here on Facebook or call/text us immediately at 207-423-3027 to get a search scheduled.

“𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓: 𝑰𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔.” ❤️

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Thirty Year Gold Anniversary Wedding Ring Lost In Sebago Lake, Maine, Found With A Metal Detector

August 27th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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💍 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐁𝐀𝐆𝐎 𝐋𝐀𝐊𝐄? 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐔𝐋’𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆! 🌊

As Cheryl and I were leaving Old Orchard Beach, fresh off a successful recovery, my phone rang. On the other end was Jennifer, and she was looking for some urgent help from The Ring Finders of Maine.

I asked her what happened, and she explained that her husband, Paul, had just lost his wedding ring at Point Sebago. The tricky part? He wasn’t entirely sure where it came off. It could have been in the dry sand around their beach setup, or it could be somewhere out in the water.

🏈 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲
Here is what we knew: Paul had been lounging around his beach chair, but he had also been out in Sebago Lake Maine, throwing a football around with his sons. Around lunchtime, as the family gathered to grab a bite to eat, Paul looked down and realized with a sinking feeling that his ring was gone.

The family immediately sprang into action. They searched all around their beach chairs and waded through the water where the football game had taken place, but they came up empty-handed.

When Jennifer told me the story, my immediate thought was that the ring had to be in Sebago Lake. In my experience, rings don’t just fall off your finger while you’re lounging around in a beach chair. They come off when you are active and doing something with your hands—like catching or throwing a football in the cool lake water!

🧳 𝐆𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫
Knowing this was likely going to be a water search, I told Jennifer I would absolutely get up there, but I needed to make one quick stop at my house first. If I was going into the lake, I needed the right tool for the job: my Minelab Excalibur II. This machine is a beast for water recoveries—fully waterproof and submersible up to 200 feet deep, it’s the same detector used on heavy-duty dive sites.
Once I retrieved the Excalibur and made sure we had every piece of gear required for a thorough water hunt, I called Jennifer back. I let her know we were officially on the road and that it would take about an hour to get there, aiming for a 3:30 PM arrival.
With the vehicle loaded up and a plan in place, Cheryl and I hit the highway, heading straight for Point Sebago.

⛳ 𝐕𝐈𝐏 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐨
Once we arrived, we were promptly met at the main gate by Jennifer and her son, who got us checked in with visitor passes. From there, they drove us right down to the beach and lake in a golf cart. Wow, I really like this place—no walking required, lol!
Down at the water, we were met by Paul. He showed us their exact beach setup and pointed out the area of the lake where he had been standing while tossing the football around. I got my gear on, fired up the Excalibur, and walked straight into Sebago Lake with Paul leading the way to his exact spot.

🧭 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡
Once I could see the entire layout of the area, I told Paul my strategy: I was going to start my grid search just a little further out and deeper in the water. I always over-grid an area to make absolutely sure I don’t miss a single spot where a ring could possibly be hiding.
That’s when Paul gave me one more piece of information—he mentioned that he had actually swum out to retrieve the football a few different times, and on those swims, the water was over his head. There wasn’t much I could do about those deep-water spots at that moment, but I could certainly search every single inch of the rest of the area.
I set up my grid lines vertical to the shore, locking my eyes onto an onshore landmark—a specific tree at the back of the beach area. Keeping my focus on that tree would ensure I walked in a perfectly straight line.

⚡ 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲!
With the plan locked in, I waded out until the water was approximately armpit deep and started making my way back toward the shore. I hadn’t even been searching for two minutes when I reached belly-deep water and a strong, clear signal hit my headphones. My first target! Could this really be Paul’s wedding ring already?
I plunged my long-handled beach scoop deep into the sand, lifted it up, and dumped the contents into the floating sifter I use out in the water. As the water cleared and I looked inside, I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES.
A gold ring was sticking right out of a clump of sand!
I turned, looked right at Paul, and said, “I got it.”

🎉 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞
Paul immediately made a beeline to me, and Jennifer and one of their sons rushed right out behind him. I told Paul he could have the honors of removing his ring from the sifter himself. As he grabbed it, the sheer relief on his face was incredibly evident.
Suddenly, everyone in the family was smiling, shaking hands, and hugging. But the magic didn’t stop there. Once the other vacationers in the area realized what had just happened, a massive wave of applause, clapping, and cheering started filtering out to us from the shore and from people in the water. It was an absolutely awesome moment to experience!

🗓️ 𝐀 𝟑𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝
As we were walking out of the lake, Jennifer let me in on a huge secret: she and Paul would be celebrating 30 years of marriage this upcoming October! Recovering Paul’s wedding ring was an unbelievable relief for their massive upcoming anniversary.
Jennifer and Paul continued to praise me for making the trip out to help them, and as we stood there talking about 30 wonderful years of their lives together, my phone rang yet again.

🎩 𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤!
The next call was for a lost wedding ring down at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport Maine. Paul and Jennifer were incredibly generous and offered to buy Cheryl and me a round of drinks to celebrate the win, but we had to politely decline. A wedding ring had to be found, and as we always say:
“If it matters to you, it matters to us.” ❤️
So, with two successful ring recoveries already under our belts today, Cheryl and I hopped back into the vehicle and headed straight to Kennebunkport Maine. Let’s see if we can make it a hat trick! 🎩☘️💍💍💍 💬

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Sterling Silver Ring Lost In The Old Orchard Beach, Maine Sand, Found With A Metal Detector

August 26th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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🌊 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐎LD ORCHARD 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐄! 🌊

📱 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐀
I just received a text from Claudia asking, “Hey! I heard about you for a ring lost on the OOB Beach.” I texted right back letting her know that yes, I find rings on the beach, and asked if she had just lost one.

🏖️ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐂𝐓
Claudia explained that she had taken her beautiful sterling silver ring—a precious Valentine’s Day gift from her partner—off and placed it safely on her beach towel before heading into the ocean for a swim with her daughter. Once they came out of the water, her daughter grabbed the towel to dry off… and you know the rest of the story. The silver ring disappeared instantly into the sand! ⚡

🧠 𝐀 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄
Claudia and her group of family and friends—visiting all the way on vacation from Canada, Québec.—started a quick search. However, they quickly and smartly called the search off. They were afraid of accidentally kicking the ring out of the area or pushing it deeper into the sand out of reach of my metal detector. Truly a smart move! 👏

🚗 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇
I told Claudia I could be at her location in @lOld Orchard Beach in 15 minutes if I could find parking. Cheryl and I loaded up the metal detecting gear and headed straight to OOB. After driving around for 5 minutes looking for a spot, we finally parked about 1/3 of a mile away and walked over to Claudia’s location.

🪑 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐀
Once we arrived, we saw that Claudia and her group had completely cleared the area and placed their beach chairs in a perfect semi-circle to keep the loss zone clear and identifiable. Another great move! I really like these people. 👍

🎬 𝟓 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐘!
I fired up the metal detector and asked 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆, 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒍, to start rolling the camera. I took exactly two steps and heard the unmistakable tone I was hoping to hear.
Are you serious?! 📸
Just two steps and literally 5 seconds into the search, I believed I had already found it. I put the detector down, reached my hand into the sand, felt around, and pulled Claudia’s sterling silver ring, sparkling with stones, right out of the sand! 💍✨
(Be sure to watch the video below to see the exact moment it happened!)

🤝 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊
This was easily one of the fastest recoveries I have ever had. It happened that fast because Claudia and her group had the foresight not to disturb the area, and instead chose to isolate it perfectly by marking it with their beach chairs.
Claudia and her group were all smiles! I cannot stress enough how much Claudia and her crew really helped themselves and me by doing everything exactly right:
* Time is of the essence: Claudia messaged me within minutes of losing her ring.
* Stop searching: They stopped before disturbing the area.
* Isolate the zone: They marked the spot perfectly while keeping others out. 🛑🌾

🚗 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄!
After the smiles, hugs, and handshakes were over, Cheryl and I grabbed our gear and headed back to our vehicle a third of a mile away.
But the day wasn’t over yet!
As soon as we got into the vehicle, the phone rang. Another lost ring phone call! We threw it in drive and headed straight to Point Sebago on Sebago Lake Maine in Casco, Maine. Little did we know, as we left Old Orchard Beach, our ring-finding adventures for the day were just beginning… 🚗💨

📞 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀 𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄? 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐂!
If you lose a ring, keys, or other jewelry on the beach or in the grass, remember: Stop searching, mark the area, and call a professional immediately! Time and moving sand are your biggest enemies.
𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌!
* 📱 Call/Text: 𝟐𝟎𝟕-𝟒𝟐𝟑-𝟑𝟎𝟐𝟕

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Platinum Wedding Ring Lost In The Goose Rocks Beach Sand, Found With A Metal Detector In Kennebunkport, Maine

August 20th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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“𝐒𝐔𝐍, 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐅𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇!”

It was a picture-perfect summer day at Goose Rocks Beach (GRB) in Kennebunkport Maine. Brandon and his wife, Taylor, were soaking up the sun, enjoying the beautiful weather, and spending quality time with a great group of family and friends. It was the kind of beach day memories are made of—until it was time to pack up.

As the day wrapped up and the group started gathering their gear to leave, Brandon went to take his ring off. In a split second, disaster struck. The ring slipped, caught the air, and went flying off his finger, completely disappearing into the sand right in front of him!

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃

If you follow my page, you already know the golden rule: once a ring meets beach sand, it performs an almost impossible vanishing act. It settles instantly, blending perfectly into its new surroundings.

The entire group jumped into action. They searched and searched, sifting through the grains, but after a valiant and exhausting effort, they came up empty-handed. Feeling defeated, the group finally had to leave, leaving Brandon and Taylor behind to continue the frustrating search alone.

𝐀 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐁𝐔𝐍𝐊𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓’𝐒 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐓

Before leaving the area, a call was made to the Kennebunkport Police Department to officially report the lost ring and asking if there was anything they could do to help find the ring. That phone call turned out to be the best move they could have made! The responding officers gave Brandon and Taylor some incredible advice: “You need to reach out to The Ring Finders of Maine. They have great success finding rings on the beach.”

I want to extend a HUGE thank you to the Kennebunkport Police for the incredibly kind words and the referral! We truly appreciate our local law enforcement looking out for beachgoers and pointing them in our direction.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍

Once off the phone with the police, Brandon called me up and explained what happened. As I always do, I started asking a few quick questions to build a mental map of the recovery zone: Where exactly on the beach? Was it in the water or the dry sand? What time did it happen? Did you see or feel it come off?

Brandon gave me the whole story. Because the ring was lost high up in the dry sand, I didn’t need to worry about checking the tide charts or racing a rising ocean. I told him Cheryl and I would load up and be there in 25–30 minutes, depending on the summer traffic.

𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐙𝐄𝐑𝐎 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 “𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐔𝐍”

When Cheryl and I arrived at GRB, Brandon met us promptly and walked us down to the now mostly empty beach. Taylor was still standing guard at the scene of the mishap, waiting and hoping.

Whenever I work with clients, I like to do a quick demonstration to build confidence. I take my own platinum wedding ring, throw it into the sand, and watch it completely disappear under the surface. Then, I swing my detector’s coil over the spot. I don’t normally wear headphones on these types of searches unless there’s heavy background noise. I want my clients to hear the target tone at the exact same moment I do!

When my detector let out a beautiful, loud, low tone over my hidden ring, Brandon and Taylor’s faces lit up. They heard the exact sound we were hunting for, reassuring them that the equipment works, everything is above board, and they had professional help on site.

𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝟏𝟎 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒?! 𝐔𝐍𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋!

Brandon showed me exactly where he had been standing when the ring took flight. I could see the area straight out from his position where the group had spent hours searching. I mapped out the strategy and told the couple I would perform a meticulous grid search, moving north to south, parallel to the shoreline.

I set up to start the grid right where I had just thrown my own test ring. I turned on the machine, took my very first two steps, and swung the coil.

BANG!

The detector screamed with the exact same loud, low tone and Target ID that my own platinum ring had just produced. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Could I really have just found Brandon’s ring less than two feet from my test spot in less than 10 seconds?

I reached for my pinpointer, located the exact target deep in the sand, and pulled out Brandon’s platinum wedding ring. UNREAL!!!!

𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐅, 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒

Immediately, Brandon and Taylor broke out into huge relief smiles! Handshakes and big emotional hugs ensued right there on the sand. The heavy weight of a lost heirloom vanished in an instant, replaced by pure joy.

But the celebration didn’t stop there. With the ring safely recovered, the happy couple broke some absolutely beautiful news to us: They are expecting their first child this upcoming November!

On top of that, they are looking forward to celebrating their second wedding anniversary this September, less than two months away. Now that Brandon has his precious wedding ring back on his finger, this sweet couple is just ecstatic and feels completely whole again.

𝑳𝒆𝒕’𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆! 𝑫𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 2𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓! 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘—𝒍𝒆𝒕’𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓!

𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑎𝑦𝑙𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑢𝑝𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 2𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒. 𝑊𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡!

𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞?

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞:

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬: 𝟐𝟎𝟕-𝟒𝟐𝟑-𝟑𝟎𝟐𝟕

𝐄𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥: 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦

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14K St Anthony Pendant Lost In The Atlantic Ocean Water, Found With A Metal Detector At Short Sands Beach, York, Maine

August 18th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐀𝐍: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓. 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐘 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐏𝐔𝐙𝐙𝐋𝐄

I received a call from Joanne. Her son, Rob, had been enjoying the day at Short Sands Beach in York Beach, Maine , when disaster struck. After getting out of the ocean, Rob looked down and realized his 14k gold St. Anthony pendant was no longer on his necklace. It was lost somewhere in the rolling surf.

𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒

Joanne asked if I could help. I immediately checked the tide charts and saw that the tide was currently coming in. When she told me the pendant was lost around 1:00 PM, I knew that meant it went missing at mid-tide.

I explained to Joanne that our absolute best chance for a recovery would be to arrive at Short Sands at 7:00 PM. By then, the tide would be heading back out, hitting that exact same mid-tide level, allowing me to follow the water out as it receded. She told me Rob would meet us there.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒

When Cheryl and I arrived at 7:00 PM, Rob was waiting. He brought us right down to the beach and pointed out the exact area where he had been swimming when he first noticed the pendant was gone.

I mapped out my strategy and told Rob I would grid search parallel to the shore, expanding the search area by an extra 25 feet to both the north and the south to guarantee we covered every square inch of the zone.

Duty called for Rob, and he had to leave the beach shortly after to head back to Boston for work the next morning.

Cheryl and I pushed on. I grid searched the area for more than two hours, finally calling it a night after 9:00 PM as darkness completely took over.

I had covered the entire designated area, but the ocean only gave up coins and the usual pull tabs and small pieces of aluminum. No gold.

𝐀 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄

On the drive back home to Saco, Maine, I called Rob to give him the update. I told him the pendant simply wasn’t in that specific grid. I asked him if he had actually felt or seen the pendant slip off his neck, and he said no. Then I asked a crucial question:

“Had you been swimming earlier in the day?”

“Yes,” he replied. “Three or four other times.”

Right then, a lightbulb went off. It all made perfect sense! The St. Anthony pendant hadn’t come off during his 1:00 PM swim—it had likely slipped off during one of his earlier swims, and he just hadn’t noticed it was missing until later in the day.

𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 & 𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍

Knowing he had most likely lost the pendant earlier in the day, my mind immediately went back to the tide charts. I saw that the morning low tide was set for 10:39 AM. My new plan was to get back to Short Sands Beach by 7:00 AM, matching the receding water and following it all the way down until low tide three and a half hours later. I was highly optimistic that the earlier swimming area would finally be exposed.

After a restless night with maybe three hours of sleep—because my mind just wouldn’t stop racing over that missing gold—I pulled back up to Short Sands Beach.

I wasted no time getting to work, picking up the grid search from north to south, moving parallel to the shoreline once again. For the first hour and a half, the beach was stubborn. I was only digging up the usual suspects: coins and pull-tabs. By 8:30 AM, with two hours left until low tide, I knew I just had to keep grinding.

𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: 𝟑𝟓!

Just ten minutes later, everything changed.

My detector screamed with a LOUD, LOW TONE, locking in at a solid 35 on my Target Identification Screen (TID)!

It sounded absolutely beautiful, and my adrenaline instantly spiked.

I scooped up a heavy load of sand, flipped it onto the wet, hard-packed surface, and pulled out my pinpointer. As I located the target and began brushing away the top layer of sand, there it was—a bright, unmistakable glint of SHINY GOLD!

I pulled it out, and holding it in my hand was Rob’s St. Anthony pendant! My theory had been spot on. After two separate days and four and a half total hours of searching, the puzzle was solved. The pendant was resting about 40 to 50 feet further out toward the water than where Rob originally thought he lost it, proving he had dropped it during one of those earlier swims.

𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐂𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘

I immediately captured a video of the recovery and sent it to Rob and Joanne. Within minutes, both of their phones were ringing off the hook—they were absolutely ecstatic!

Since Rob was already back at work in Boston and Joanne was also down in Massachusetts, Rob asked if I could hand the precious heirloom over to his girlfriend’s brother, Jay, who was still vacationing in York with his family. I told him, “Absolutely!”

Meeting up with Jay and handing over the pendant felt incredible. Job done. But the real icing on the cake came a short time later when I received a text from Rob that truly says it all:

𝐀 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐋

“𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙤 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙜𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙨. 𝙄 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙄’𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧. 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙖𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩.”

𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎

Well, if a message like that doesn’t warm your heart, absolutely nothing will. It is exactly for reasons like this that we do what we do. The jewelry we recover holds deep family bonds and irreplaceable memories that a retail store can never replicate. These items represent family history.

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

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚! 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟕-𝟒𝟐𝟑-𝟑𝟎𝟐𝟕

Remember: “𝐈𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬.”

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Gold And Platinum Wedding Ring Lost In The Water Of Sebago Lake, Found With A Metal Detector, In Standish, Maine

July 31st, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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💍 SAVED FROM SEBAGO LAKE! 🚨

It was supposed to be the ultimate bachelor weekend getaway.
A group of lifelong friends. A stunning waterfront lake house in Standish, Maine. Perfect weather over beautiful Sebago Lake Maine. 🌊

But what happened next turned a perfect weekend into a full-blown emergency… 😳

☀️ THE MOMENT EVERYTHING CHANGED ☀️

Nick was out in the water enjoying Sebago Lake—tossing a football, swimming, and floating around with the guys—when disaster struck.

His gold and platinum wedding ring suddenly slipped off his finger.

Before anyone could react… it disappeared beneath the surface. Gone. Just like that. 😳

The panic set in immediately.

Imagine having to make that phone call to your wife from a bachelor party weekend… YIKES!!! 💍

💥 Determined not to give up, the bachelor crew jumped into action.

They swam, waded, and searched the area themselves. Smartly, they even placed two large stones on the lake bed to mark the exact drop zone.

But finding a ring in waist- to chest-deep water is nearly impossible by hand.

Despite their best efforts… the ring was still missing.

📞 “WE NEED HELP…” (THIS IS WHEN WE WERE CALLED) 📞

Realizing they were running out of time, Nick contacted The Ring Finders of Maine.

Cheryl and I immediately loaded up my fully waterproof metal detecting gear and headed to Standish, Maine and Sebago Lake, Maine.

When we arrived, the guys showed us the stone markers they had placed—perfect reference points.

We geared up, entered the water, and began a careful grid search.

🎉 10 MINUTES LATER… THIS HAPPENED 🎉

I swept the detector back across the marked area…

Nothing.

I adjusted slightly and continued the grid pattern.

Still nothing.

Then I turned just a bit farther left… and everything changed. 👀

A clean, unmistakable signal rang out through my headphones.

I scooped the sand, swirled it in the water… and there it was.

💍 Nick’s gold and platinum wedding ring.

I lifted it high and said:

“Gold & platinum?”

The entire group erupted in cheers. The energy was unbelievable. 🎉

Nick’s relief said it all—what started as a disaster was now a full recovery.

And best of all… no dreaded phone call home needed. 🙌

We have the best job in the world. We love our job.

“Remember, If It Matters to You, It Matters To Us “❤️🙏

🔊 TURN YOUR SOUND UP — THIS IS THE MOMENT EVERYTHING CHANGED!👇

Watch the full recovery video on The Ring Finders of Maine Facebook page to hear the reaction live! 🎥

💡 LOST SOMETHING IN THE WATER OR SAND IN MAINE?

Don’t wait—and don’t try to dig it out yourself. You could push it deeper.

Call us immediately:

📞 Dennis: 207-423-3027
🌊 Fully waterproof recovery equipment for lakes, ponds, rivers, and ocean surf
❤️ If it matters to you, it matters to us

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Gold Wedding Ring Lost in The Saco River, Found With A Metal Detector In Biddeford, Maine

July 13th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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🚨 SACO RIVER SUCCESS: Independence Day Ring Rescue! 🎆

💍On Friday, July 3rd, I received a call from Sam. Her husband, Matt, had been tubing on The Saco River at Rotary Park in Biddeford, Maine—just 3–4 miles from my house.

While tubing, Matt felt his white gold wedding ring slip right off his finger.

He dove in after it, but after an hour of searching, he came up empty-handed.

Sam wanted to know if this was something we could help with. I told her we absolutely do water recoveries!

I’ve searched Rotary Park before; while it’s not a complicated grid, the riverbed has a brutal, hard clay bottom that makes digging with our scoops incredibly tough.

Sam said Matt would be in touch.📞

The Morning Plan & Tag-Teaming the Search

The next morning, Matt called with the exact details:

Depth: 4 to 5 feet of water 🌊

Location: Inside the buoys at Rotary Park

Current: Very minimal

Bottom: A mix of sand, hard clay, and thick vegetation 🌿

Perfect! I told Matt I could search up to five feet deep, but I wasn’t available for another hour and a half.

Instead of making him wait, I called fellow Ring Finder Gary Hill, who lives just 20 minutes away.

Gary could start grid-searching immediately until I could get there.

Matt rushed to meet him.

Within 30 minutes, Gary was out the door with his Minelab Excalibur diving metal detector, ready to dive in! 🤿🏎️

Double Booking: A Second Emergency Call!

Once I got home, I started loading up my own Minelab Excalibur to head to the river.

Just as I was packing up, my phone rang again.

A frantic caller at Long Sands Beach in York Beach, Maine, had just lost a gold wedding ring in the sand 30 minutes prior.

With Gary already handling the river, I made a quick executive decision:

I left the Saco River search entirely in Gary’s capable hands and jumped onto the Maine Turnpike toward York.

I was barely on the highway when my phone buzzed. A text from Gary read:

“RING FOUND 4 1/2 FEET DEEP.” 🥳🔥

OUTSTANDING!

I called Gary immediately to congratulate him on an incredible water recovery before continuing down to my beach call.🤿

Mud, Branches, and Teamwork: How It Happened

Gary later gave me the breakdown of how they pulled it off.

Matt took Gary directly to the drop zone.

Matt even brought his snorkeling goggles to help search visually while Gary executed a tight grid search with his detector.

Gary started at three feet deep and worked his way deeper.

He hit a few random targets, but nothing with that distinct gold tone.

He kept digging anyway.

After about 30 minutes, Gary pushed out into 4.5 feet of water.

BOOM.
A loud, low-tone target blasted through his headphones. Gary knew instantly: this was the wedding ring. 🎯

But there was a catch. The target was trapped under decayed vegetation and a layer of compacted, rock-hard clay and sand.

Gary’s scoop couldn’t break through.

So, the duo improvised:

Gary held his detector coil directly over the target to lock down the location. 📍

Matt took a deep breath, dove to the bottom, and grabbed a massive handful of the leaves, roots, and debris. 🌿

They brought the pile to the surface together to sift through it.

As they cleared away the mud and branches… a beautiful white gold ring appeared! 💎✨

🇺🇸 The Best Way to Spend July 4th.

Mission accomplished!

Matt let out a massive celebratory yell, smiling ear to ear. They headed back to shore, where Matt couldn’t wait to call Sam with the life-saving news.

What a phenomenal way to spend the 4th of July weekend—in the water, saving the day, and making sure a piece of family history wasn’t lost forever.

Happy 250th Anniversary, America!

This is a holiday Matt and Gary will never forget. 🏛️❤️

Later that afternoon, Matt sent a text:

“Thank you so much for setting this up and I’m so excited we found it. Have a GREAT 4TH.”

Talking with Gary later, he perfectly summed up why we do this:

“I really do have the best job in the world, and I love my job.” 🥰

Lost something valuable in the water or sand? Don’t wait—time is critical! Call The Ring Finders of Maine at 207-423-3027

Remember: “If it matters to you, it matters to us”

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Gold Wedding Ring Lost In The Soil, Found With A Metal Detector, Wells, Maine

July 4th, 2026 by Dennis Boothby
from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)

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🚨 EMOTIONAL RECOVERY! 🚨 Another Ring Back Where It Belongs! 💍✨

The Ring Finders of Maine, With Recovery and Return #232

While Cheryl and I were at a Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees game in Boston, Gary Hill was watching the store back here in Maine. ⚾️

The previous day, I had received a text from Mary:
“Hi. My name is Mary. We live in Wells Maine. My husband lost his wedding ring while digging a patio this weekend. Are you available tomorrow? I’ve seen you on Facebook, and we met one time at Drake’s Island Beach.” 🏖️

My reply:
“Hi Mary, I am not available tomorrow. I am going to Boston for a Red Sox game. I do have Gary Hill covering for me if you would like him to search tomorrow. Otherwise, I could come Sunday morning. Is he sure he was wearing the ring while working on the patio? Has the area where he was digging been filled back in? My concern is that the ring may have been buried too deep for our detectors.” 🤔

Mary’s reply:
“We have only dug it out. We dumped a lot of dirt and grass in the woods behind our house; I’m guessing it would be there. But our plan is to finish the patio tomorrow, so if you could give me Gary’s number, I would appreciate it. Enjoy the Sox!”

I gave Gary’s contact information to Mary, and once they talked, they made plans to meet the next morning at 8:00 AM. ⏱️

Gary arrived right on time, and he brought along a special helper—his 8-year-old grandson, Rowan, who was visiting his grandparents from South Carolina! 🥰

Mary and her husband, Paul, showed Gary the two locations where they thought the gold wedding ring might be: the patio excavation site and the dirt pile in the woods. 🪵

Everyone figured the woods was the most likely spot, but Gary decided to sweep the patio site first just to rule it out. It was only about a 15’ x 15’ area, and Gary figured it would take just 10 minutes.

THEN, THE DETECTOR WENT OFF… 🎧💥

Just 5 minutes into the search, Gary got his first target! Rowan was on duty as the official pinpointer operator today. 🧭

As Rowan stuck the pinpointer into the soil, he pulled out a piece of aluminum.

But as any good metal detectorist knows, you always check the hole twice! Gary told Rowan to recheck the area. Rowan placed the pinpointer back in the dirt, and it went off again! There was another target hiding right underneath! 🚨

As Rowan carefully brushed away the dirt, a glint of gold caught their eyes. It was a gold wedding ring—Paul’s ring! 🥹✨

INCREDIBLE!!! Gary and Rowan needed less than 5 minutes to solve the mystery.
TEARS OF RELIEF 😭❤️

When Paul saw his ring, his eyes immediately filled with tears. 🥹

That ring meant the world to him, and he truly believed it was gone forever. The sudden wave of relief was overwhelming. Paul and Mary wrapped Gary and Rowan in huge hugs, and the stress completely melted away.

Another ring back on the finger where it belongs! 💍

A huge congratulations to 8-year-old Rowan on his amazing work today. He did an outstanding job and has officially earned his title as a “Ring Finder!” 🏆🎉

💡 LOST SOMETHING PRECIOUS?
If you or someone you know has lost a ring, keys, or any other irreplaceable item, don’t wait! Call or text The Ring Finders of Maine right away at 207-423-3027. We are here to help bring your lost treasures back home! 📞🧭 [1]

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