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A Lost “Smart Ring” During a Walk in the Park in Eastvale, CA- FOUND!

  • from Corona (California, United States)
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Lost a ring, necklace, keys, or other metallic object and you know the approximate area? Call or text me IMMEDIATELY (951-415-6007) and don’t buy a cheap metal detector off Amazon that you won’t know how to use.

The first Ringfinder call-out of 2026 started on a wet Friday night, January 2nd. I received a text from Natalia saying she was interested in my services for a ring she lost in a park in Eastvale the night before. She explained it was a Titanium “Oura Smart Ring”. I agreed we’d meet at the park on Saturday.

When I met up with Natalia, she told me she had been walking her dog throughout the park, and at some point she noticed her ring was missing. What is incredible is that the “Smart” ring is just that…SMART. She had an app on her phone and it shows the location of the ring, however she couldn’t locate it. I looked at the app and it showed the ring in a small grassy area next to the baseball diamond. Not being familiar with this type of ring, I Googled what the accuracy of the “Found” app was. It said it could be 10′-15′ from the shown location.
I began a grid search, but after some time, and checking other locations she had been with her dog that night, I found nothing. This was extremely frustrating. As it started raining, I told Natalia I would be back after it stopped. Unfortunately, the rain lasted all of Saturday and Sunday.

On Monday afternoon, I went back to the park to resume the search. I brought a friend as I was confused how a Titanium ring that would have been on the surface, yet maybe hidden in the grass was not being detected by my metal detector. We spent about a half hour searching that same grassy area. All we were finding were coins and junk. A short time later, ringing up as a nail or piece of foil, there was the ring, hiding in the grass! And it was within the area the app on Natalia’s phone said it would be! Pretty SMART! I was probably as happy as Natalia was when I texted her the picture of her ring. The lesson is, never overlook the “trash” settings on your detector.

I met with Natalia on Tuesday to return her ring, and I got to meet “Winston” from that fateful walk in the park!

 

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Men’s White Gold Wedding Ring with Diamonds Found in Nashville with a Metal Detector

  • from Nashville (Tennessee, United States)
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I got a text from Nicole on Nov. 12th at about 4PM. She said her husband, Roy, was working at a home in Nashville today when he lost his white gold wedding band in the front yard. Nicole explained that the front yard was huge, however the area where Roy thought he lost his ring was confined to a much smaller area. She said Roy had already rented a metal detector and looked for his ring for several hours, along with his brother and the owner of the property. With sunset at 4:45PM tonight Nicole was worried about it being too dark for me to search for the ring. No worries I told her, telling her that I am well equipped for nighttime searches in the dark.

I arrived at the large estate in the Green Hills area of Nashville and met with Roy. After be showed me the areas of the front yard where he had been working, I fired up my metal detector, started a stopwatch and began a grid search. Just before the thirteen minute mark I located Roy’s ring in some wood chips adjacent to the concrete front porch to the residence. This was the first ring recovery for me where I actually saw the ring with my eyes before swinging the metal detector coil over it. It is Fall, so it’s quite possible that the ring had been concealed by fallen leaves and by the time I arrived they were blown away by the cool Fall breeze.

What’s important is that Roy was reunited with his wedding ring. He said he would have lost a lot of sleep if it wasn’t found. Roy thanked me and said now he will be able to pass his ring on to his son one day.

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Lost Platinum and Diamond Engagement Ring Found in Nashville, TN

  • from Nashville (Tennessee, United States)
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Greg contacted me on the afternoon of November 10th after finding me on TheRingFinders website. He explained that his fiancé, Jenn, lost her platinum and diamond engagement ring in or near the parking lot of his condo in Nashville. I was several hours away, but told Greg I could be there at 10 PM that night, or the following afternoon. Greg asked that I conduct the search the following day when I was available. I met Greg at his complex at around noon and he showed me the areas where he and Jenn thought the ring might have come off her finger while she was making an exaggerated movement. It did not look promising since this search area was about 85% paved asphalt parking with sidewalks on three sides and narrow grassy areas making up the other 15%. My fear was that it was lost on the asphalt and found by another nearby resident.

I used my XP Deus 2 metal detector and began grid searches on the grassy areas on either side of the asphalt parking area, finding only junk metal and a few coins. I then began searching the narrow landscaping strip filled with thick ivy and shrubs that Jenn was facing when her ring flew off her finger. This landscape strip was NINETY feet away from where Jenn had been standing. There was also a tall chain link fence down the entire length of that strip with the other side being inaccessible to me. Although I thought it was very unlikely that Jenn’s ring ended up ninety feet away from her, I continued my grid search of this area. After checking no less than fifty signals which consisted mostly of pull tabs, pocket change and other miscellaneous junk metal, I got a strong signal that piqued my interest. Deep amongst the ivy leaves, entirely hidden from plain sight was Jenn’s stunning engagement ring.

I dusted the ring off before sharing the good news with Greg, who was looking through the ivy about fifty feet to my left. I showed Greg a handful of the pull tabs, coins and other metal stuff that I had removed from the ivy. Greg had a somber look on his face, believing that those were the only things I had found. I then pulled Jenn’s ring from my pocket and said, “and then I found this! Does this look like her ring.” The look on his face was priceless. This was an absolutely gorgeous ring and I was super excited to recover it for Greg and Jenn. I kinda enjoy being “that guy with a metal detector” when people tell stories about their lost treasures being found when they feared they were lost forever.

So before Greg initially contacted me, he thought about buying a metal detector to search for the ring himself. He then did more research online and read that learning how to use a metal detector properly can takes quite a long time, and time was not on his side. He made the right decision by contacting an experienced metal detectorist (me in this case). More often than not when people buy a metal detector to find their lost items, they only get frustrated with the machine because they don’t know how to use it. A high percentage of the jewelry recoveries that I have done were cases where the owner, their friend or family member of theirs used a metal detector to look for the item themselves, and admit to even swinging the coil over the exact location where I found the item with one of my detectors. When I offer to show my clients how to use the metal detector that they bought or borrowed, they always say thanks, but no thanks, and say they would rather just call me instead, and I’m good with that.

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