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  • from Millburn (New Jersey, United States)
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Phone Home! 📱❄️
Winter strikes again! ⛄ We recently helped a client recover their phone after it went missing during a snow shoveling session. Armed with their Find My Phone app data 📍 and a crucial clue. They remembered exactly where their music stopped playing 🎵, and we got to work.
Our team member Kati systematically covered the area from where the music cut out all the way to the end of the driveway. When that search came up empty, she expanded the grid and found the phone at the very top of the driveway where they’d first started shoveling. Mystery solved! 🎉
Two Important Takeaways:
✅ Always zip your pockets before heading out to shovel! 🧥 It’s an easy step that can save you a lot of headache (and cold fingers searching through snow). 🥶
✅ Your music didn’t stop because your battery died, you might have just walked out of Bluetooth range! 🔊 That silent phone could still be powered on and waiting to be found.
We’re thrilled we could help reunite this phone with its owner. 💙 If you’ve lost something valuable in the snow, yard, or anywhere else, don’t hesitate to reach out. We love a good recovery story! 🙌
❄️🔍 Greenwood Detecting – Finding What Matters ✨
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Lost Ring Warren NJ… Found

  • from Millburn (New Jersey, United States)
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Kati from Greenwood Detecting recently helped recover
a ring that was lost during a lively party — and it
couldn’t have ended better 🎉.
While playing, a young girl tossed a water bottle 💦,
and in that split second, the ring she was wearing on
her pinky went flying along with it. Understandably, the
ring seemed lost for good.
Kati carefully scanned the area where the bottle was
thrown 🔍, and with patience and precision,
successfully located and recovered the ring 💍✨.
After the recovery, we received an incredibly kind
message from the girl’s father, Craig — the kind of
message that reminds us exactly why we do what we
do.
😊 Bringing smiles back to people’s faces is what
Greenwood Detecting is all about. 😊
Moments like these make every search worth it.
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Lost Ring Scotch Plains NJ… Found!!!

  • from Millburn (New Jersey, United States)
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💍 Another Successful Recovery by Greenwood Detecting! 🎯
Greenwood Detecting recently had the privilege of helping a gentleman recover his missing wedding ring — a piece with deep personal meaning. The ring went missing after a day spent doing yard work and playing baseball with his grandson ⚾🌱.
Our team carefully scanned the areas where the yard work and baseball activities took place, but initially came up empty. Just as we were wrapping up, the gentleman mentioned one key detail: he had been wearing gloves while working and pointed out the spot where he had taken them off and put them back on several times 🧤.
That final clue made all the difference.
 Lo and behold — the ring was right there! ✨
Moments like these remind us why attention to detail matters and why we do what we do. Another meaningful item reunited with its owner and another happy ending for Greenwood Detecting.
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Family Heirloom Ring Found In Alsip, Illinois

  • from Chicago (Illinois, United States)
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Received a call from a woman in Alsip, lost her heirloom ring while playing in the yard with her children. Told me it has been in the family for decades.

They searched the night before for over 4 hours with a flashlight with no success. It was hidden in the snow pretty good, they never would have seen it.

Just so happy to get it back to her.

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Frigid ring search ends on warm note! Deerfield, Wisconsin

  • from Menomonee Falls (Wisconsin, United States)
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My car showed the outside temperature at minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. A stiff 15 mile an hour wind put the wind-chill factor at minus 25. It reminded me of the extreme winters my wife and I experienced when we lived in Alberta, Canada. I opened a package of hand warmers and slipped them into my large leather mittens. I knew I would need them.

A text message from Deerfield, Wisconsin resident, Alisa O’Neil asked for help in recovering her platinum wedding rings. The rings slipped off her hand and vanished into the winter landscape as she was running back from the mailbox in front of her home. She and her husband, Trevor, scoured the area, even used a metal detector, but they could not locate the missing rings.

Alisa’s father discovered my metal-detecting services on TheRingFinders.com, an international directory of metal-detecting specialists. Upon arrival, Alisa showed me where the rings had flown off her hand. Under such circumstances they could be anywhere, on the snow-covered roof or caught in the thick bows of a nearby pine tree. And so began an ever-widening sweep of the ground in the bitter cold. After 4 hours of searching however, the rings remained lost.

We took a short break, enjoying a scrumptious cup of freshly brewed coffee and homemade cookies. The warmth felt ever so good! And the coffee, I must add, was outstanding; Alisa knows coffee! The short break helped to spur us on.

I wanted to double check an area by the sidewalk. Reinforcing steel in the concreate made it difficult to hear any non-ferrous signals in the snow next to it. For this challenging area I swapped coils on my detector for one that uses a higher-frequency. It is particularly sensitive to gold and platinum in what detectorists call, “trashy” locations. Finally, five hours into the frigid search, a promising signal invited further investigation. The reinforcing iron close by was doing its best to overwhelm the detector, camouflaging the ring’s hiding place. But as it turned out, the signal was indeed that of Alisa’s wedding rings, complete with their gorgeous 2-carat diamond centerpiece! To say Alisa was ecstatic, is an understatement! I should have taken a video of her happy dance, squeals and all! Suddenly, nobody was aware of the cold!

If you or someone you know has lost a ring in the snow, don’t let the ring’s story end. It’s more than a ring. Give us a call. We’d love to warm up your day!

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Lost Gold Ring in the Snow Found in Wyandotte Michigan

  • from Detroit (Michigan, United States)
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As the Midnite Ice…

lay hiding beneath the snowdrifts, Jenny and her friend Lance had no idea about what was going to happen as they ran thru the park after enjoying some refreshments at a local business. As each of them formed snowballs, Jenny threw first and while doing so slipped on that hidden ice and fell into a snowdrift. As Lance pulled her up, by time they got to the car, she noticed her ring missing. The ring is a family heirloom from her grandmother. Being past midnite, they called me when it was daylight and we agreed to meet. I fired up my icebreaker MXT metal detector and started a grid search from where Jenny started to run and where she fell down. It wasn’t long before the MXT signaled on a non-ferrous metal item thru the snow. Brushing the snow away with my pin pointer metal detector and a few inches into the snowdrift revealed Jenny’s ring! Handing the ring to Jenny produced smiles on both their faces that would have melted that ice had they stayed longer, but they didn’t! Now Jenny’s glad she’s not on slippery ground anymore…or on thin ice with her grandmother!

Jonathan

 

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Gold and Diamond Engagement Ring Lost in the Snow Found With a Metal Detector in Nolensville, TN

  • from Nashville (Tennessee, United States)
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I received a frantic call from Kyley during a snow storm in Middle Tennessee. She explained that she was removing her gloves in the front yard when her engagement ring flew off of her finger and landed in the snow. What made this ring extra sentimental was the fact that her fiancé had it custom made for her in the Virgin Islands before they traveled there a few months ago, which is where her fiancé proposed to her. Kyley had access to a pinpointer metal detector and tried unsuccessfully to find her ring, while the snow continued falling, further burying her ring deeper in the snow. She was smart and covered the area where she suspected the ring was with a thick blanket. She and her fiancé went to the local department store to look for a full-size metal detector, but in the meantime found my contact info on TheRingFinders website. Fortunately I have a very capable 4X4 to make the 30 minute drive on the snow covered roads to Kyley’s house. Indeed Kyley’s gorgeous engagement ring was found hidden under the snow, covered with the blanket that she placed over it. Kyley cried tears of joy and gave me a big hug. When she put the ring on her finger, she said, “Back where you belong.” Recovering lost treasures for nice people like Kyley never gets old.

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Small Silver Ring Dropped in Sand is not lost forever Found and Returned to Owner.. Newport Beach, CA.

  • from Newport Beach (California, United States)
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*** Amber was at Balboa Beach on the Newport Beach Penesula, CA. when she lost her small silver ring in the sand.It happened as she was walking across the sand to her car in the parking lot. She took a second to brush the sand off her clothing with her hands. She felt her ring slip off her finger,  it disappeared immediately .

She called me and I met Herat the location. Soon after turning on my metal detector, the ring was found in a 10’x10’square area.

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LOST KEY FOB IN KALEVA, MICHIGAN

  • from Manistee (Michigan, United States)
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Got a call from Melissa H. yesterday, (Jan 22, 26), she lost her key fob to her car, in the snow. Melissa lost her husband 6 months ago and is now on her own and is still getting her bearings on this new life style. Yesterday while walking out to her car with her purse in one hand and packages in the other it dropped out of her hand. She didn’t miss it until she got to the car. After a heavy snowfall on top of the snow that was already there she searched and couldn’t find it. She went back to her porch and shoveled the snow to the edge and it wasn’t there. She continued to shovel around the foot of the porch and around the car with no luck.

When I got to her home the next day I was concerned that so much snow had been moved around. I got my detector and searched the porch, steps, area around the car and snow piles in the area with no results. I then searched the snow that she shoveled off the porch and found it several inches under the shoveled snow. Prior to loosing the key fob she had fallen and the loss of her key fob added to her misery that day. She is mobile again and only wanted to return a book to the Library but her snowplow driver encouraged her not to venture out for the next few days in the sub-zero weather. She is happy now with her recovered key fob and can stay warm in her house finishing a complicated puzzle.

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One-of-a-kind wedding ring lost in snow & found! Cudahy, Wisconsin

  • from Menomonee Falls (Wisconsin, United States)
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Cudahy, Wisconsin resident, Chris Roberts was closing a metal gate behind his home when his one-of-a-kind wedding ring got caught on it. Married four years, he was horrified to feel the white and black diamond ring leave his finger and disappear into the cold, snowy night. Despite careful search efforts with a leaf rake in the snow, the ring’s hiding place remained a secret. The next morning Chris reached out to me with a text message asking if I might help. We arranged to meet on location late that afternoon.

It was dark when I arrived. I donned a headlamp and followed Chris to the back of his house. I could see the telltale signs of raking in the snow, evidence of Chris’s valiant search efforts. The thermometer was falling fast, hovering in the mid-teens Fahrenheit (-9.4 Celsius). And a brisk wind made it feel much colder.

Sweeping the area with a mid-sized coil revealed the presence of many metallic objects in the ground beneath the snow. Most of them were ferrous (iron) signals that could be ignored. Also, a heavy wire-mesh fence screamed its presence in my headset whenever I was close to it. I quickly eliminated the more obvious signals and zeroed in on a non-ferrous target near the metal gate. As I probed the area with my pin pointer, a small lump of ice invited investigation. Breaking it apart in my gloved hand, Chris’ precious ring appeared among the icy crystals! And the smile on his face tells the rest of the story.

Chris’ ring was the 9th one I’ve extracted from the snow this winter season. In the process, I’ve observed a strange phenomenon. All but one was encrusted in an icy lump, the result of a warm ring melting the snow on first contact, then cooling and finally freezing the ice and snow around it, forming an icy tomb. Encrusted in this way can make the ring invisible to the naked eye. Little wonder Chris and others have been unable to find their rings! Apart from using a metal detector, the ring’s hiding place would have to wait until warmer days when the snow and ice have melted away. But by then, the ring may have been shoveled off or plowed away to another location. This is why time is of the essence when a ring becomes lost in snowy conditions.

If you or someone you know has lost a ring, don’t let its story end. Whether recent or long ago, in the snow, leaves, grass, sand, lake or river, call a member of The Ring Finders in your area. Chances are, like Chris, we can put a smile on your face again.

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