#MaineLostAndFound Tag | The Ring Finders

🚨 𝟏𝟎 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 & 𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇! 🚨

“𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅.” 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝑱𝒂𝒌𝒆’𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉.

🚨 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝟏𝟎 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐆! 🚨

The thick, heavy fog was rolling in across 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐎𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡, swallowing the coastline in a damp, gray mist. Gary Hill had just successfully recovered Sean’s lost wedding ring—another emotional reunion in the books for TRFOM.

(If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out the incredible video and full story of Sean’s ring recovery pinned right here on our Facebook page!)

🔍 𝐀 𝐅𝐔𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 🔍

Instead of packing up right away, we decided to stay on the beach. We were waiting for Sean to call us back, passing the time by enjoying a little recreational metal detecting for a change—just swinging the detectors for fun without the pressure of a targeted search.

That’s when the quiet was broken. My phone went off with a sharp chime. Pulling it out, I looked down at a text message that immediately shifted our gears. This is what it said:

💬 “𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫? 𝐈𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩! 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐥𝐞?”

Without wasting a second, I replied: “𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦? 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?”

📱 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇 📱

A few minutes later, my phone rang. On the other end was a loyal follower of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 who happened to be at a Yoga on the Beach session down at Pine Point Beach  in the  Town of Scarborough, Maine . She had been texting me, but realized it would be much faster if I just talked to the young man directly so he could answer my questions.

She handed the phone over, and a polite but clearly stressed voice came on the line.

“𝐇𝐢, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐞,” he introduced himself.

Jake quickly filled in the blanks of what had happened. The previous evening, he had been out on a date, and the two of them ended up stargazing on the beach at Pine Point. They had been sitting up near the dunes, enjoying the perfect night—right up until the moment they decided to leave.

💔 𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃 💔

When Jake and his date finally walked back to the parking lot and he reached into his pocket for his key fob, his heart dropped. It was gone.

Jake and his date immediately turned back around, frantically retracing their steps back to the spot where they had been sitting. But in the pitch black, the key fob was nowhere to be found.

They spent hours running their fingers through the cold sand, using only the dim flashlights on their smartphones to guide them. Despite their exhaustive efforts, the beach refused to give it up. It was as if the shifting sand had completely swallowed the fob whole.

🚗 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 🚗

I listened to his story and smiled. I told Jake he was in serious luck—Gary and I were only 2 to 3 miles down the road in OOB and would be there momentarily. Hanging up the phone, Gary and I immediately walked off the beach through the thick fog, loaded up, and headed straight to Pine Point.

Once we arrived, we walked out into the misty fog onto the beach. Near a group of people quietly participating in a yoga session, we spotted a young man holding a metal detector. I walked over to him and asked if he was Jake, the one looking for a key fob.

Sure enough, it was Jake. Meeting us in person, he elaborated on the rest of his exhausting night. After desperately searching the beach until the wee hours of the morning with no luck, Jake finally had to call his father and break the bad news. He was completely stranded at Pine Point after spending the entire night searching for the fob.

Jake’s date had called her parents many hours earlier and was already safely at home, while Jake’s father had driven down in the middle of the night to pick him up.

🛌 𝐍𝐎 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 🛌

But the story didn’t end there. Jake explained that once he finally got home, he couldn’t sleep for the life of him. The thought of that missing key fob was driving him crazy.

As he tossed and turned, he suddenly remembered that his father had an old metal detector tucked away somewhere. He realized if he could just dig out that old detector and get back down to Pine Point, he might still have a chance to find the fob himself.

Once they tracked down the old machine, Jake and his dad loaded back up into the truck and drove right back to Pine Point to start the search all over again.

Back on the beach, Jake diligently swung the old metal detector back and forth, while his father conducted a careful visual search of the area. Unfortunately, their persistence wasn’t paying off—both came up entirely empty-handed.

Feeling defeated, Jake’s father eventually headed up to the parking lot, while Jake kept stubbornly searching in and right around the active yoga class. This was the exact moment when Gary and I finally showed up on the scene.

⚡ 𝟓 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐯𝐬. 𝟏𝟎 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 ⚡

Jake showed us the exact area where he and his date had been stargazing, as well as the route they had walked back toward the lot. Gary and I fired up our  𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐛 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 detectors and got straight to work.

We set up our grid: Gary followed the dune line while I swung out a little further, both of us heading north. When we reached our northern boundary, we turned around and headed south. Still nothing.

Undeterred, we turned back to head north again. That’s when I hit a target. It wasn’t a clean, great-looking signal, but it was showing many different shapes and metals—which is exactly what I would expect from a key fob. Because of all the different internal electronics and metals inside them, fobs often mimic the appearance of trash to a detector.

I reached down, brushed away the blanket of sand, and there it sat: a black key fob. In less than 5 minutes, we had found it, and Jake would soon be able to drive his car home.

🤫 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓… 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐍! 🤫

Hiding the key fob completely in the palm of my hand, I started asking Jake a few questions about his walking route to and from the car. The second Jake turned his head away to point out the area, I quietly held the fob out in mid-air in front of me.

When Jake turned back toward me, he stopped dead in his tracks, staring right at the key fob in my hand.

“𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭?” I asked with a grin.

With a massive, relieved smile, Jake replied, “𝐘𝐮𝐩.”

🧘‍♂️ 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐆𝐀 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒! 🧘‍♂️

Right at that exact moment, the nearby yoga class broke out into a huge round of applause! They had been watching the drama unfold, and seeing Jake finally reunite with his fob brought a cheer from the whole group.

I handed the fob over and offered my congratulations, shaking his hand.

Jake let out a 𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄 sigh of relief.

“𝐖𝐎𝐖!!!” he breathed. “𝐓𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭.”

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓??? 𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒!!!

𝐖𝐎𝐖 is right! Jake had spent ten agonizing hours searching through the pitch-black night and the heavy morning fog without luck.

🚫 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐈𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 🚫

Curious, I asked Jake if he wouldn’t mind laying the fob back down on the sand and running his father’s old metal detector over it. When Jake swung his coil over the key, the machine stayed completely silent. It didn’t pick it up at all.

As it turns out, the old metal detector wasn’t properly set up or calibrated. If it had been, Jake might have been home asleep in his own bed hours ago!

This is exactly why we always tell people: please don’t rent a metal detector or buy a cheap one if you have no experience using them. Without the right equipment and knowledge of how to ground-balance and tune the machine, you could be swinging right over your lost ring, keys, or valuables, and the detector won’t make a single peep.

💸 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋! 💸

Since we only charge a transportation fee, calling 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 is actually less expensive than renting or buying a metal detector yourself!

Plus, we bring close to 𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 in metal detecting straight to the search.

Heck, if you hire us and still want to get in on the action, I will even bring my backup metal detector along for you to use so you can give it a try at no extra charge!

So, another fob back in the pocket and another vehicle started up. We have the best job in the world. We love our job.

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

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐞’𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐛! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰!

🔍 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒? 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒! 🔍

Have you lost a wedding ring, heirloom jewelry, car keys, or a vital key fob in the sand, snow, or grass? Skip the stress and expense of buying or renting equipment you haven’t been trained to use.

Why choose 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞?

✨ 𝟓𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: We know exactly how to tune our top-of-the-line gear for your specific item.

✨ 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞: We work on a reward basis and only charge a basic transportation fee.

✨ 𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐈𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟: We’ll bring a backup detector for you to use at no extra charge! We will even set it up, calibrate and show you how to use it properly.

📞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟕-𝟒𝟐𝟑-𝟑𝟎𝟐𝟕 and ask for Dennis to get a recovery specialist on the way immediately, or send us a direct message right here on Facebook!