I was cleaning the gutters, not wearing gloves (lesson learned) and as I threw the debris, my wedding ring slid off my finger and went with the debris into an area of Ivey. In that environment, it was like 
looking for a needle in a haystack. Jeremy Roth of Ringfinders to the rescue. He found the ring along with a few other items overgrown by the ivey. Just in time to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary!
This young man called me up saying he lost his wife’s 18k gold engagement ring! I’m thinking to myself, “HOW DID YOU LOSE IT?!?” I said ok tell me what happend..
Story goes, It was getting dark, they were on a walk enjoying spending time together. It was cold, they were horsing around and she was afraid of losing her ring so she takes it off and puts it on her thumb to slid it into her husband’s shirt pocket for “SAFE KEEPING”!! A few mins later he did something to cause her to chase him and he stumbles and falls down a slope. He didn’t think anything about it until he realized he lost his watch. Then he checked his shirt pocket, and his heart sank, the ring wasn’t there!!!!
He called me up and I shot over in the dark. He wasn’t 100% sure where he fell so I was scanning about 50 yards of possibilities. Lots if signales and sadly I didn’t find it that night. I advised him to try and find his watch during the day and to try and narrow the search area a little.
The next day he goes back to site and finds his watch. It was just about dark again and rain was coming in on Saturday. So I told him I’ll be there first thing Sunday morning!
I arrive, get my gear and we walk over to where he found his watch. I set my machine to 40-61 range, because the ring looked very thin. I didn’t find it, so I changed my range to VDI 40-72. BOOM! Got a 62 and there it was just under some dirt!!!
I love helping people find lost items! It makes my heart happy and to see the joy, happiness and relief on their face!
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Ring count for 2026: 2 (2 – recovery)
GOLD – 2 (2 – recovery)
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Well 2026 is off to a GOLDEN start!!!
Got a call from this guys sister-in-law saying her brother-in-law had lost his wedding ring at a volleyball pit while they were playing.
Story goes his back was to the net, hit the ball up and the ring flew off. They searched as best as they could but couldn’t find it. After about an hour i found it!
It had landed in the area of server spot.
Found out after I found it, it was actually a family heirloom!! The ring had belonged to his father. He gave it to him for his wedding.
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Ring count for 2026: 1 (1 – recovery)
GOLD – 1 (1 – recovery)
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Received a call today from a young lady who asked about my ring recovery services. After a few mins of going over the details, she agreed she wanted me to come out and try to find her 14k engagement ring.
She lost her ring while doing some yardwork about four months prior to calling me. She provided me her address and said they wouldn’t be home. I advised her I will go and if found, I will put it in a secure location and send her the details.
I drive an hour and forty-five mins to get to her house. Set up my machine to locate the ring in the range it should have been in. VDI 40-65 on the Deus 2. After about an hour I get a VDI 48 and dig down about 2-3 inches and I see the beautiful gold roundness that I had been hoping for!!
After I sent her the pictures to confirm I had found it, she proceeds to tell me that not only had it been lost for 4 months, but it was also her husband’s Great Grandmothers ring!!! 😱😱😱 A priceless family heirloom that means a lot more than just a symbol of their love.
I love what I do, because of happy stories just like this that makes me hate even more the ones I can’t find!
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Ring count for 2025: 169 (27 – recoveries)
GOLD – 32 (19 – recoveries)
GOLD/SILVER – 2 (2 – recoveries)
PLATNIUM – 3 (3 – recoveries)
SILVER – 44 (3 – recoveries)
VINTAGE – 3
JUNK – 85
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Received a text from a gentleman saying his wife had lost her white gold class ring after removing snow off her car. She shook her hands and the ring came flying off and lost.
We agree to a date/time. I get up there and begin my search about an hour later I found it. It was about 10-15 feet and opposite side of where they thought it went.
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Ring count for 2025: 168 (26 – recoveries)
GOLD – 31 (18 – recoveries)
GOLD/SILVER – 2 (2 – recoveries)
PLATNIUM – 3 (3 – recoveries)
SILVER – 44 (3 – recoveries)
VINTAGE – 3
JUNK – 85
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Another Ring Found in the Snow… Well, Almost ❄️💍
Last night I received a text from Rav — and you could feel the stress through the phone. He was supposed to be leaving Wednesday on vacation with his new fiancée, but there was a problem: his engagement ring had vanished while shoveling snow in the large front yard of his home in Lawrence, New York.
Snow, cold, metal gloves — never a good combination.
Rav had a few spots where he knew the ring could be. Those were my first targets. I carefully scanned each area… once… twice… three times. Nothing. Not even a hopeful beep. At that point, I’ll admit it — I was starting to think this one might turn into a waiting game until the snow melted.
Just as I was about to regroup, I suddenly heard Rav yell out,
“I FOUND IT!”
I turned around to see him standing in the driveway, holding the ring. It turns out that while using the snowblower, he had taken his gloves off right there — and that’s when the ring slipped off. The snow hid it perfectly until the light hit it just right. He spotted the glimmer and picked it up himself.
The relief on his face said everything.
Even though Rav was technically the one who found the ring, he still insisted on paying my full reward. His reasoning? Process of elimination. Since the ring wasn’t in any of the areas I had searched, it had to be somewhere else — and my being there led him to the answer. I only accepted a partial reward.
The truth is, if he had waited until Friday, when the temperature was supposed to hit 55° and the snow melted, the ring probably would’ve surfaced on its own — but by then it could’ve been crushed, bent, or damaged by cars in the driveway. And most importantly, Rav didn’t want to leave for his trip with that stress hanging over him.
As he kept saying,
“If you weren’t here, I never would’ve found it.”
That’s a win in my book — and another happy ending just in time for a vacation and a fresh start.
Kinjal reached out to see if I could help locate her husband’s lost ring. We had just experienced an early season snowstorm that ended around 11 AM and her husband decided to shovel the driveway and clear off their cars before the temperatures dropped into the single digits, which would freeze everything solid. Unfortunately, he wasn’t wearing gloves, and with the ice-cold snow on his hands, the ring easily slipped off.
She explained that a neighbor had loaned them a pinpointer, but despite hours of searching, they had no luck. They had even ordered a metal detector, but it wasn’t going to arrive until the next day. After hearing the situation, I told her I could come right away and asked her to send over the address. I gave her my ETA after I loaded up my gear and was on the road.
I started searching along one side of the driveway, picking up several signals, but none turned out to be the ring. I then moved to the area by the mailbox but still had no luck. Finally, I focused on the other side of the driveway. Just a few feet in, I got a strong signal that seemed promising. Using my pinpointer, I cleared a bit of snow, and the device started beeping like crazy. I reached down, scooped up a handful of snow, and there it was—the ring right in the middle!
Kinjal and her husband were incredibly grateful. As always, it felt great to help them recover something with great sentimental meaning.
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I was completing my 2nd ring finder mission of the day when I received a text from Jim regarding a lost platinum wedding band. It just so happens I was 15 minutes down the road successfully helping another gentlemen with his lost band…so i headed in his direction. Upon arrival Jim took me to his backyard and explained that he was playing/wrestling with his dogs when his ring came up missing. He suggested an area where he felt it most likely fell off….but couldn’t rule out any area in the large yard. As I always do I started scanning with my metal detector the most likely area the ring was lost. From 40 years of metal detecting I know that a ring on the surface has a very dramatic/unique signal on a metal detector…so I was hyper focused on hearing just that signal. I also calibrated my machine for just a gold/platinum ring. 3 minutes into the search….the signal I was looking for blew my ears off! It was 3 inches down in the deep grass and invisible to my eyes…but I knew it was there. I got out my ponpointer…dug around….and there it was! I was very happy to be able to return Jim’s ring to him…his smile as I handed his ring to him makes being a busy ring finder the best thing in the world!
Lost Keys Found in the Snow: A Winter Recovery Tale
It was a crisp winter morning when our client lost his set of keys—complete with two key fobs—while snow blowing his driveway and tidying up the yard. He needed the keys to unlock a locked shed out back, and he distinctly remembered slipping them into his jacket pocket after. But despite a thorough search using a rake and even a rented metal detector, the keys had vanished into the fresh snow. His activities had taken him all around the house: clearing the driveway, putting away a few items from the deck, and navigating the side yard and beyond. Most of the snow had been raked and disturbed in the process, but the keys were nowhere to be found.
Frustrated but hopeful, the client reached out to Darrin Gay of The Ring Finders. Darrin, recognizing the challenge of a snowy search, referred the job to me, Paul Nolan, another Ring Finders metal detecting specialist in the area. I had the afternoon free and promised to swing by within the hour.
I arrived around noon under a brilliant sun with not a whisper of wind—perfect conditions for a recovery. The client gave me a full tour of the property: the long driveway, the side yard, the shed, and the expansive two-tiered backyard with its large deck. Snow blanketed everything, crisscrossed by tracks from boots and equipment, but the path was straightforward.
I started with the most likely spot: the driveway. Grid by grid, I swept my detector—nothing but silence. Next, I moved to the shed and side yard, where he’d unlocked the door. Again, no signals worth chasing. That left the backyard, a vast expanse of undisturbed powder dotted with the deck’s shadow and scattered winter chores.
The detector hummed to life here and there, picking up faint targets buried deep below the frozen ground—nails, tools, or who-knows-what from seasons past. As I circled the deck, I hit a consistent line of signals along the back drip edge, like buried wiring or low-voltage lines snaking underground. Steady pings, nothing exciting. Then, a brief clear patch… followed by one more hit, about six inches long, right in line with the others but offset by four feet.
I figured it was more of the same—probably just extension cords or landscape lights. But the tone was off, crisp and shallow, only an inch or two beneath the surface crust. Something nagged at me. I set the detector aside, grabbed my garden rake, and gently scraped away the top layer of snow.
There they were: the lost keys, glinting in the sunlight like buried treasure. Two fobs intact, no worse for the wear. The client’s face lit up as I handed them over—a huge relief after days of worry.
It’s funny how it always seems to happen in the last place you look. Another successful hunt for The Ring Finders, turning a snowy mystery into a quick win. If you’ve lost something precious in the white stuff, don’t rake alone—give us a call!
Dan found me in the Ring Finders Directory after losing his wedding band Thanksgiving weekend. He was enjoying the holiday at his home in Wilmington, DE when his ring came up missing. After thoroughly searching the inside of his house he reached out to me Sunday and I made arrangements to meet him that same day. When I got there he shared that he thought the ring most likely flew off his finger while he was tossing around a football with the kids in the side yard of his home. The side yard is about 1/8 of an acre and he told me he was playing football mostly toward right/middle…so as I always do I started my search in the most likely area. A ring on the surface has a very unique signature….so while I was getting quite a few signals I was hyper focused on a very unique signal…It didn’t take long…3-5 minutes into the search…BOOM….there was the signal I was looking for. I looked down…and there was his beautiful gold ring! He had gone back inside so I think he was a little surprised to hear me knocking on his door 3 minutes later!!! He and his wife were quite joyous to have his ring back on his finger! I was very happy to be able to come through and return his ring to him!!!
