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Yadkinville, NC favorite knife lost – now found

  • from Winston-Salem (North Carolina, United States)
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Received message from Tim a resident of Yadkin county that while moving hay bales on his farm he dropped his pocket knife that has been with him for many years prior to retirement from the Highway Patrol.   He was not sure of where it actually dropped but for him I would do my best to locate it

Having contacted me on Sunday I was unfortunately not able to immediately assist but promised I would load my equipment and would drop by on way home from my office on Monday.

I had received another request for assistance nearby the farm so plan was to assist both before dark fell.  Upon successful recovery of the jewelry I quickly relocated to Tim’s farm finding him mowing. Tim described the events and location he believed he dropped the knife.

We walked and searched approximately 30 minutes and as sun was setting I explained that I often search in late afternoons and I have had luck in local parks finding things around sunset.  Something about the dark gives me favor.   Sure enough as we were walking towards our vehicles and swinging my detector in last ditch efforts to recover his treasured item my detector sounds off.  Although under moonlight I could tell it was his knife.  I asked,  remember what I said earlier about finding stuffs in the dark?   I have found your knife.  He didn’t believe me until I picked it up and placed into his hand. 🙂

 

Thank you Tim for your years of dedicated service to North Carolina.  I cannot wait to return and detect your farm and see what those mysterious signals are that we stumbled across while searching for your knife.

 

TheRingFinders.com is not exclusive to jewelry.  As long as the missing item is metallic I and the other RingFinders are more than happy to assist you.

Tonight was great for me.  Being two assignments in a while and a first for two searches on the same day.   Two for two successful finds. It cannot get any better than that.  I love my hobby and even more get a kick out of the smiles resulting from the recovery of lost or missing personal treasures.

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18K Bracelet Found In Big Rapids, MI

  • from Holland (Michigan, United States)
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Received a call from Abraham, a student at Ferris State University, saying he lost his bracelet playing flag football back in October of 2025. He lost it on a wet, muddy night and spent hours searching for it with a flashlight. He assumed somebody had stepped on it and pushed it down in the mud. He went back days later with a metal detector and had no luck. The bracelet had been given to him by his mother, and he did not tell her he had lost it yet. Seeing that the lost area is about the size of a football field, I called my friend Chuck to help me. We arrived and had Abraham mark off the area to search with 4 flags and we went to work. We each started searching at the ends and worked toward the center. After about 2 hours Chuck found a 14K bracelet and after calling Abraham to take a look, he said it was not his. About 30 minutes later Chuck finds another gold bracelet!!!! This is it! This made Abraham’s day and ours too.

Found using a Garrett At Pro with a reading of 41-42 while it was in the ground about one inch deep in a pile. On top of the ground strung out it read a solid 42. The clasp had bent letting the bracelet fall off.
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Diamond necklace Recovery – Mocksville, NC

  • from Winston-Salem (North Carolina, United States)
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Around noon I received a text that requestor had dropped her necklace in the yard. She and fiancé had searched for it for some time with negative results. Allison explained the location and asked if it was too far for me. I let her know I would be glad to assist but was in Wilkes county at the moment but could drop by the Davie county address around 5:30. She said that would be great but no one would be able to be there at that time due to another commitment. I let her know I would be glad to try in their absence if comfortable if she could place a chair or something in the yard so I would know the general area it was lost. She said yes so we had a plan.

I arrived and immediately began searching the marked area. Was receiving lots of valid signals and realized with the home being new that lots of metallic items were in the search area. I continued my search. After an hour I received a text asking if any luck yet. I advised had searched the immediate area and not found yet but was actively searching. Expanding search area and 30 additional minutes it was found.


 

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Gold Wedding Band Lost at Trestles Surf Beach, San Clemete, CA. Found by Metal Detecting Service

  • from Newport Beach (California, United States)
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Metal Detecting Service available to help you find your lost item on the beach, park, backyard or water up to 5 feet.. Call or text Stan the Metal Detector Man .. 949-500-2136


*** Adriano called me as was driving home from Trestles Beach in San Clemente,CA. he had been surfing at this popular surfing beach. He didn’t realize that his gold wedding ring was missing until he was almost 60 miles away from the beach.

He called me for help and gave me general directions to where he had been. Adriano could not meet me at the location but he was able to tell me he was set up on the dry sand 20 yards north of the lifeguard tower.

I drove 20 miles and walked about a mile into the beach. It took about a hour to grid search the area, before being rewarded with a beautiful gold wedding band. It matched a photo that Adriano had sent me. The next morning I mailed his ring to his residence in Oxnard, CA.

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Garrapata beach, south of Carmel, ring found

  • from Monterey (California, United States)
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Got a call from a gentleman who lost his wife’s ring on Garrapata beach, ~ 20 minutes south of Carmel, CA.   Had put it in his jacket pocket for “safe keeping”.   But later had taken off the jacket and bundled it up to carry .  And , although they didn’t realize the ring was missing till they’d arrived back at their Monterey hotel, yet figured it probably fell out of the pocket while on-the-beach.   Their suspicions and approx. location were correct.

 

A platinum band surrounded with diamonds.   They can now return to southern CA with their ring safely back in their possession.  Glad I could help you guys !  Thanx for the generous tip.

 

 

Also, it came to my attention that he didn’t get referred to this service through “Ringfinders” website/directory necessarily.  But instead had come up in chat AI search results, with merely my name.  But I assume that EVEN THAT is a result of the ring-finders’ directory key-word search , that fuels AI search results.  So I assume this is still essentially from the RF website system results.

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Diamond earring lost and found – Daphne, AL

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Last night, just as I was heading to bed, my phone dinged with a message.

“Sorry for the late text,” it read. “Lost 1.5 carat diamond earring in a flower bed. Call tomorrow… or Monday… or now.”

Well… of course I called now.

David explained that his wife Jennifer had lost her earring while working in the flower bed earlier that day. They believed it was somewhere in the pine straw around her hydrangeas. It was insured, he said… but it was a sentimental gift that meant a great deal to her.

Earrings are my least favorite type of jewelry to recover – they are sooooo tiny. But there was no way I was saying no. We made plans for me to head to the next county over the next day and give it a shot.

Fortunately, they had the matching earring. That gave me a huge advantage. I ran it under my Minelab Equinox 900 to check the VDI and tone.

Park 1? Nothing.

Park 2? Bouncy low tone.

Beach 1 and 2? Nada. 😬

Gold mode? A nice solid signal.  Now we’re talking.

The search area was small but tricky—pine straw, landscaping debris, and plenty of potential junk targets hiding underneath. Jennifer stood nearby, clearly anxious, asking what she could do to help.

My answer?

“Pray.”

(Which, honestly, I do with every swing when I’m working a recovery.)

Almost immediately, I got a promising signal—perfectly matching the test earring. My excitement didn’t last long… after chasing it with my pinpointer for what seemed like forever, I pulled out a teeny, tiny scrap of tinfoil.

Next target? A small nail.

Then more foil.

A screw.

Even a Christmas light connector.

I started weighing my options—carefully remove the pine straw or move to another area she had worked. Just then, I caught another shallow 2 VDI tone right along the edge of the flower bed where it met the monkey grass.

I knelt down, reached in with my pinpointer, and gently pushed the grass aside…

…and there it was.

A flash of sparkle.

That unmistakable wink of a diamond looking right back at me. 🙌

I’m not sure who was more surprised—me or Jennifer—but I can tell you this: there were happy tears from both of us.

That feeling never gets old.

The best reward isn’t the find itself—it’s the look on someone’s face when you place a lost, sentimental piece of jewelry back into their hand.

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Pendant Lost In Lyman, Maine Grass, Found With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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Just before 8:00pm, Thursday evening, I received a phone call from Elley. Elley told me that she is a professional dog trainer and that earlier in the day she had taken a “Rescue Dog, from Georiga, to Bunganut Lake , Bunganut Lake Town Park, Lyman, Maine . The dog, Kasper had been taken to the park, for a walk and a little play time. While playing with Kasper, Elley felt Kasper catch her necklace and breaking it. Elley was able to actually catch her “Tiffany & Co.” key pendant but didn’t see her other pendant. Her other pendant wasn’t a “precious metal “, like the Tiffany & Co. Pendant but a pendant, with a copper base metal. However, this pendant held great sentimental value because this pendant has an engraving, of Elley’s beloved dog, Mina. Elley has told me that Mina is her “Soul Dog” and loves her to the moon and back.
So, Elley is a busy woman and had multiple appointments, to train dogs, Friday morning. She thought she could get away at lunch, noontime, on Friday and show me the area, she thought the pendant was lost. I always prefer someone to show me the exact area, when the owner, thinks their item was lost. I can’t tell you how many times, I have searched the wrong area, because trying to describe an area, on the phone or text messages just doesn’t always work. When people look at a map, it isn’t the same as when they are there in person.
So, Friday afternoon, we met at the park and Elley walked me down to the area, that Kasper accidentally broke her necklace. The area wasn’t large, maybe 50’ X 50’. I could search that area, in no time. I would start a grid search of the area, east to west, and then west to east, on my return trip, to the area, I started in. Being a park, with swimming, cookouts and a playground, I knew there would be a lot of metal trash, in this park. I decided to use my smaller 9” coil, for my Minelab Manticore metal detector. The smaller coil would pick up less trash, with every swing making it easier to hear the pendant, I was searching for. As I started searching, I was picking up lots of trash signals and also, lots of coin signals. Elley went to get Kasper, out of her vehicle, while I searched , so she could walk him. As I grid searched, back and forth, I could see Elley and the dog, on one of the trails. As I was watching Kasper happily pulling Elley along, I received a very loud mid tone, and reading 63-64, on my VDI screen. Definitely an object, in the copper range and only one bar showing on my VDI. This is my depth gauge and one bar is telling me that the target is on top of the surface to 2 or 3 inches, below the surface. With recently lost items, a one bar display, is exactly what I was hoping for. I looked down at the area and after 10 seconds or so, I spotted a copper colored pendant, hidden in the dead grass. BANG, After just 15 minutes of searching, I had the pendant. Elley and Kasper were walking towards me and I told her that I had found her pendant. After tying Kasper up, at the swing set, she excitedly came over, to me. I hadn’t picked the pendant up and asked Elley if she could see her pendant, in the dead grass. After showing her the area and with a clue or two, it still took 30 seconds of visually scanning the area, before she finally found the pendant. That how well it was hidden, in the grass. Elley screamed with delight and was all smiles, holding the pendant, up to her body, so thankful to have her Soul Dog Pendant back. I took a video, of Elley, visually searching, for her pendant and you may see it, on The Ring Finders of Maine’s Facebook Page.
Elley has given me permission to show her business card and I will be happy to. Should anyone in Southern Maine or New Hampshire have any questions about her dog training, or her other dog services, please reach out to her at 603-502-8682 and she will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Although I wasn’t able to meet Elley’s Soul Dog, Mina, Elley assured me she would give Mina the good news of getting her pendant back. As anyone who has ever owned a dog, dogs really are a member of the family.
So, another pendant, back on the chain. I love my job, it’s the best job, in the world 🦮😀❤️🙏

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Lost gold wedding ring recovered, South Bend, Indiana

  • from Granger (Indiana, United States)
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Chris contacted me about a lost ring he hoped could be recovered. His wife, who passed away last year, had lost the ring while they were raking leaves in the front yard (4 years ago). She was not certain when it fell off, nor where.
Chris got curious about trying to find the ring, started searching for ways to maybe rent a metal detector to try finding it. He discovered The Ringfinders in his research and opted to hire me for this recovery attempt.
The front yard was along a busy road, which almost always equals lots of metallic debris. I had to sort through many targets of foil, shredded can pieces, bottle caps and just various metal objects. After a half hour or so, a nice sounding target presented itself, within the area he guessed had the higher potential. Within the small clump of grass roots and dirt I pried up, I could see the edge of a ring.

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Lost Yellow Gold & Diamonds Wedding Band at Aulani Beach…FOUND!!!

  • from O‘ahu (Hawaii, United States)
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This ring find began yesterday  when I got a text from Ryan who was from Chicago and on Spring Break staying at the Aulani Resort.  While playing catch in shallow water of the lagoon Ryan’s Yellow Gold & Diamonds Wedding Ring came off and disappeared in the sand.  He sent a pic and circled the area in question.  I immediately called and found out Ryan would be leaving the next day around noon.  We agreed to meet early the next morning and it would be a low tide as a bonus.  I arrived the next morning and texted Ryan.  He met me on the beach and gave me the coordinates for a grid search.  I didn’t find the ring in that box.  I went ashore and discussed the event that caused the ring to be lost and it was when he was catching the ball.  Many times in that situation the ball flings the ring further then you imagine.  I told Ryan I would extend the grid search deeper and he could just relax on the beach and I would call him when I complete the hunt.  Low and behold on the third leg I got a screaming target on the Manticore.  On the second dig Ryan’s ring was in the scoop.  I started walking ashore and noticed Ryan sitting in a beach chair.  I held up the ring and yelled, “Got It!” I hand dropped it to Ryan and I could sense a sigh of relief.  He shouted over to his lovely wife Jamie, “He found it!”  Jamie came over to see for sure.  I believe she said, “I can’t believe it!”  but was obviously very happy.  We took a few pics and Ryan was able to return home with his ring on his finger.  Aloha to Ryan & Jamie!

 

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Man’s Silver Wedding Band Lost in Thick Dune Weeds/Grass, Found and Returned North Myrtle Beach SC

  • from North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States)
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This search and recovery started with a phone call from Madison on Thursday, March 26, 2026, just before 8 p.m. She asked if I could help find her husband’s silver wedding band at the beach. She told me that her husband had tossed her his keys and his ring. She caught the keys, but the ring had gone a totally different direction. She also told me it happened in the dune with grass and weeds, and the ring could also be in some bushes. I told her I was tied up until about 9:45-10:00 p.m. and asked if she would be able to meet me. She agreed and told me which beach access it was.

We met up as planned and she walked me out between houses to a sandy beach access foot path and showed me the overgrown area where the ring was. She showed me about where her husband was standing when he tossed his keys and ring. She then showed me the direction she saw the ring fly. I had my Equinox 800 and knew a silver man’s ring was going to ring up in the mid to high 20s depending on the size of the ring. I attempted to do some sort of a grid search but found that difficult with the high grass and weeds. She thought the flight path was towards, what looked like, a small pine tree. I was able to check the branches and maneuvered enough to get under the tree and check that area. I ended up doing a kind of a circle search and stretching it out as I went. At some point, she had mentioned that her husband was leaving town the next morning and he was watching the kids. After maybe 20-25 minutes or more, I told her that she didn’t need to stick around and I’d call her one way or the other. She agreed and headed home. I decided to start over from where he was standing and work my way in straight lines. Within 5 minutes, I got a solid 32 on the VDI (visual display indicator). The only 32 signal I had ever received on the 800 was a silver dollar. I turned my headlamp on and searched the ground where the signal came from and saw a little tiny sliver of something peeking out of the sand. I reached down and ran my finger over it and uncovered a beautiful silver hammered ring, just like she said it was. She also told me their wedding date was engraved inside the ring. Bingo! I couldn’t read the engraving, but it appeared to be a date. I took a quick picture and sent it to her saying, “This it?” She immediately responded, “oh my gosh, Yesss.” She called and said she was turning around. I told her we could meet in the middle and picked a MacDonald’s. About 15 minutes later she had her husband’s ring back in her hand, a big smile on her face and heading home. I got a text from her the next day saying, “That her husband is so so happy. You really saved the day and more. I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am.” This is exactly why I do this! I wasn’t able to get her picture, so I filled in for her.

Madison – Thank you for calling me and allowing me the opportunity to find and return your husband’s ring.

Best wishes, Jim

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