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Lost White Gold Ring w/Diamond in the Snow Found in Bloomfield Hills Michigan

  • from Detroit (Michigan, United States)
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Groundhog Gold…..

Being holed up in the current Michigan deepfreeze, Mohammad and his wife decided to run a few errands. Upon arriving home, a friendly snowball fight ensued that left her ring missing. Agreeing to meet on Monday to search, after arriving I set up my MXT metal detector and began a grid search. In just a few minutes I got a great signal with the detector. 6 inches of snow cover was hiding the ring! Amazingly in one of the pictures, the beautiful ring’s shadow appeared. Coincidentally a certain groundhog saw his as well. Can we put faith in a rodent to predict when spring will arrive?  Or does seeing the ring’s shadow predict the next 6 weeks and beyond will be warm and comforting for Mohammad and his wife…..

Jonathan

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Lost White Gold & Diamonds Engagement Ring at Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach…FOUND!!!

  • from O‘ahu (Hawaii, United States)
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This ring find began when I got a call from Braiden who happened to be on the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach, as a young lady named Laura, got bitten by a bee on her finger and as she swung her hand to get rid of the bee her White Gold & Diamonds Engagement Ring flew off into the sand and disappeared.  She was in a panic state as she couldn’t find her ring and wasn’t really positive as to where it landed in the sand during her stressful bee sting moment.  Braiden agreed to meet me on the boardwalk and direct me to where Laura was.  I arrived rather quickly and Braiden was easy to spot at 6 foot 7.  When he introduced me to Laura she was still crying but still had the wherewithal to describe the event and where it should be.  I fired up the Manticore and told her to relax as there would most likely be some trash found during the hunt.  I show my clients every target I retrieve so they know I’m not going to pocket their precious item.  My first target was a piece of foil and as I showed it to Laura a look of dishearten surprise was obvious.  I told her again I would show her everything I dig.  Next target “Boom” gorgeous ring in the scoop.  “Now you can get excited” I said, as I let her retrieve her ring from my scoop.  Tears of relief flowed down her face and she gave me a giant hug of thanks.  Applause and cheers rang out from the tourists on the beach.  Vacation saved!  Aloha to Laura from Canada!

 

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LOST 14k GOLD ENGAGEMENT RING in CATAWBA, NC…….FOUND!!!!

  • from Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)
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I received a text from a young lady on Sunday stating she had lost her 14k gold engagement ring in her backyard while pushing her little sister on a sled.

As she pushed her, she fell and stood up and shook her hands off and at some point the ring fell/flew off her finger.

Due to the road conditions, we agree on Tuesday after I got off work to drive down and attempt to locate her ring.

I arrived and met her and her mom, got the story and began my search. After about 30 mins, I get the signal I was hoping for. After a quick brush away and pin-pointer locating the target, there was her ring in the snow!!

I love helping people find their lost and irreplaceable!!!!

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Ring count for 2026: 3 (3 – recoveries)

GOLD – 3 (3 – recoveries)

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Gold Wedding Ring Lost In The Snow – Found in Pittsburgh by metal detector specialist Brian Carpenter 814-244-2300

  • from Indiana (Pennsylvania, United States)
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Lost your ring, other valuable jewelry, cellphone, keys, or other metal object…call or text Brian Carpenter at (814)244-2300 as soon as possible. I am a ring recovery/metal detecting specialist serving Pittsburgh, Indiana (PA), and most of Western PA. Why rent a metal detector when you can get a trained operator with top of the line equipment at the same time…

I was contacted by Joshua who stated his wife had lost her gold wedding ring in the snow in front of a house in Pittsburgh. They were visiting from New York  and the ring had fallen off of her finger outside of their car. I was able to make plans to search for the ring the next morning.

I arrived to find out that while the ring was lost out in front of the house it was along the street rather than in a driveway. I met Joshua who showed me where he had parked. Two days had passed and of course they had been searching and people were moving snow as they shoveled out parking spaces and sidewalks. I inspected the area and my heart started to sink. This looked next to impossible. On the curb next to where they had parked was a neighbor’s garbage to include a trash can, an old air conditioner and what looked like a stack of old shelving. Just as an added bonus to what looked like an incredible task was the fact that the temperature was in the single digits.

I started to search, got a pretty promising sound and began combing through the snow. I forgot to mention this was an old cobblestone street. As I got down under the ice I found an copper penny in one of the cracks on the roadway. I was starting to prepare for this to be a VERY long haul. I started to move around the car and to the area of the neighbor’s trash. As I moved around the plastic trash can I got another pretty good hit. I got out my pinpointer and it was a relatively small target. While removing the snow to find the target I caught a glimpse of gold that disappeared back into the white fluffy snow. I dug down and finally there it was – the ring! I hate to say it but I was in disbelief. I have said it before but this was nothing more than simply devine intervention!! I had only been searching for about 20 minutes or so when I found the ring.

I took the ring to the house and gave it to Joshua. He was amazed and very happy that I recovered it. Then I found out they were newlyweds and had been married for just a week. They were returning to New York the next day. As always it was a pleasure to meet another kind and generous client and return their lost ring.

 

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Keys Lost In The Snow – Found by metal detector specialist Brian Carpenter in Pittsburgh, PA! Call or Text Brian at 814-244-2300

  • from Indiana (Pennsylvania, United States)
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Lost your ring, other valuable jewelry, cellphone, keys, or other metal object…call or text Brian Carpenter at (814)244-2300 as soon as possible. I am a ring recovery/metal detecting specialist serving Pittsburgh, Indiana (PA), and most of Western PA. Why rent a metal detector when you can get a trained operator with top of the line equipment at the same time…

After one of the massive snowstorms that covered the country recently and hit Pittsburgh pretty hard I was contacted by Donquia who had lost his keys in front of his house. Donquia said he slipped on the front steps and his keys went into the snow. We made arrangements for me to come out the next morning.

I arrived in the area to find only a small path on the street in front of Donquia’s house to be plowed and the rest of the area was nothng but piles of snow and plowed in cars. With nowhere to park I left my truck sitting in the middle of the street, got briefed by Donquia and got started. He was pretty sure he went one way and the keys went another. I started to sweep over the snow with a few hits but no keys. I then had to drive around the block as someone needed to get by on the roadway. When I came back I parked in the street again and started on the opposite side of the steps. After a few minutes a nice sound came through my headset. I started to dig with my snowshovel and jackpot, I found Donquia’s keys!

I was happy to find Donquia’s keys relatively quickly so he could get to work a bit later. As always, it was a pleasure to meet another kind and generous client and recover his lost item.

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Three Gold Rings, Engagement, Wedding, Lost In The Kennebunk, Maine Snow, Found With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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Just before 5:00pm, Friday January 30th, I received the following message , from Maggie

“Hey, are you close to Kennebunk, Maine ? We have an individual who lost three rings in the snow after tossing a ball for the dog. What is the cost to have them searched for?”

I replied “Hi So sorry to hear this. I do not charge for my Emergency Metal Detecting Services or my Time. I do however have a Transportation Fee of $25.00 to Kennebunk and that’s it.”

Maggie replied “When can you come? 80 York St”

I replied “Well, it would be dark before I can get to Kennebunk Maine tonight. I need good lighting, to find a ring in the snow. I could be there first thing in the morning, 7:00am, 8:00am or whatever works for you.”

We agreed that I would arrive at their location, bright and early, at 7:00am, as the sun was coming up. Maggie then explained the location was actually The Mooring , a Memory Care Facility and also a Respite Center, just off of Rt 1, in Kennebunk , Maine and not far from the Wells Maine town line. Mary is a caregiver , to the elderly, a very demanding job. Mary is staying at the Respite Center, for a short time and had been playing with a Labrador puppy named Millie. They were playing just outside the door, on the patio. Mary had been throwing a ball, into the snow and Millie had been retrieving the ball, bringing the ball back to Mary and repeating the playful game over and over. At some point during the playful game, Mary noticed her three rings were missing. The rings were a Yellow Gold Engagement Ring, a Yellow Gold Wedding Ring and a White Gold Ring, which was a gift, from her husband. All three rings had Diamonds in them and Mary was just beside herself, that the rings were no longer on her finger. Maggie, a staff member at The Mooring, told me that she would be working from 7:00am to 7:00pm, the next day and she would let me into the secure facility, to search for the rings.
So, Saturday morning , I left my home, in Saco, Maine, in the pre dawn hours, at 6:30am. I arrived right at 7:00am. Maggie was in the vestibule waiting for me and took me inside to meet Mary. Mary repeated the story that had been told to me, by Maggie and we then went outside, to the patio area. Mary showed me where she had been standing, on the patio, while throwing the ball. She also pointed in the direction that she had been throwing the ball. The most likely place the rings would be were just on the other side of a table and chairs, on the patio. I was then told that Mary and others, including staff had searched the area already but hadn’t been able to find any of the three rings. I could see the area had been disturbed quite a bit and was hoping the rings hadn’t been pushed too far down, into the snow or even moved out of the area. After shoveling quite a bit, a few days earlier, for a cell phone, I really wasn’t looking forward to shoveling more snow. But, I had brought my shovel, just in case.
I started the search by moving a few chairs out of the way and pushing the table slightly back, from the deep snow bank. I then started searching the snow, on the patio itself and nothing was found, until a minute into the search, when I received my first target. It was not the ring, but something under the patio. I then received a loud repeating target , near the base of the snowbank. It was definitely a non ferrous target and was ringing up a solid 41, on the VDI screen. As I moved the snow aside, with my hand, I saw the outline of a Yellow Gold Ring. WOW, only a minute or so and the first ring had been found. I passed the ring, to a now emotional Mary, who had some happy tear, in the corner of her eyes. Mary identified the ring, as her wedding ring. Well, that was easy enough and I knew the other rings had to be very close by. Another minute or two and I received another solid low tone non ferrous target, reading 25 on the VDI screen. This target was in the side of the snowbank and as I was brushing the snow away, a ring fell out of the snowbank. I reached down, picked it up and it was Mary’s Yellow Gold Engagement Ring. I passed it to Maggie and I could see Mary, on the patio, with happy tears still flowing. Now just one more ring. The White Gold Ring that was a gift from her husband. Almost immediately, I received a very low tone, non ferrous, reading 15 on the VDI screen. This just had to be the White Gold Ring and it was located just slightly higher, in the snowbank, than the Engagement Ring and less than a foot away. As I removed snow, with my hand, I saw the white band of the ring, sticking out of the snowbank. YES, SUCCESS!!! All three rings were now back on Mary’s finger and she was just so happy to have them back. Mary told me she hadn’t slept at all, last night because her precious rings were gone. Her husband was coming to visit her at 8:00am and she hadn’t called and told him that she had lost the rings. Now she had them back, she had no more worries. It wasn’t even 7:30am and she was just so relieved the rings had been found, prior to her husband’s arrival.
We all went back inside, as it was very cold. When I had arrived, the air temperature was a -3 degrees, without the wind chill. As we were talking and warming up, Maggie told me that she has followed my stories for years and knew who to contact, as soon as Mary told her about her lost rings. As we were all celebrating and smiling I took a photo of Maggie holding the three rings. Mary had asked me not to include any photos of her, in the story, like many other of my clients have in the past. Mary told me she is just not a social media person and I always honor their wish, not to have there photo included. Mary did say I could use the photo of her rings, back on her finger and I could sense a big change in her demeanor. Mary was now smiling, happy and most of all, she couldn’t wait to see her husband, just a half hour from now. What a beautiful moment seeing Mary smiling, awaiting to see her beloved husband, with the precious and sentimental rings, back on her finger, where they belong. I truly have the best job, in the world.🤗❤️🙏

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Semimetal ring recovery Saint John’s county Florida

  • from St. Augustine (Florida, United States)
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June 2023. I received a call late on a Friday afternoon from a gentleman living in far west Saint John’s county saying that he had lost a very sentimental ring while cutting down some Oak tree branches on his property.  So, I made plans to drive out to him first thing Saturday morning to find the ring.  

I arrived at his home, and he points out the area where he lost the ring trimming some trees.  After about an hour I have his ring and he is very happy to get it back as it had great semimetal meaning to him from his military service.

 

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Engagement ring recovery Durbin Pavilion Saint Augustine Florida

  • from St. Augustine (Florida, United States)
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October 2024. Saturday mid-morning I get a call from a woman whose daughter just lost her engagement ring on a baseball field. Her daughter was practicing with her brother somewhere on the baseball field. They had been raking the red clay since she had lost the ring with no luck. 

 When I arrived, the mother greeted me and pointed out where her daughter was on the ballfield mostly out on the right field catching fly balls but also ran the bases a few times. I worked the outfield with no luck; I then moved to the red clay where behind 2nd base I found the ring. Both Mother and daughter started to scream, and shout followed by a river of tears as they said they thought the ring was gone forever.

  

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Finding a wedding band Saint John’s County Florida

  • from St. Augustine (Florida, United States)
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November 2024. The morning after Thanksgiving 2024 I got a call from a man saying he, his kids and the neighborhood kids were playing basked ball in his driveway after Thanksgiving dinner. Shooting a basket, off flew his wedding band into the grass, he told me they had looked for the ring for over an hour with no luck.  

I started to detect about 3 feet from the area they had searched figuring I would make an overlap pattern wider then where they had searched. A couple of swings later there was his wedding band. 

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Cell Phone Lost While Plowing Snow In North Berwick, Maine Found With A Metal Detector

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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On Tuesday, January 27th, I received a message from Donna, a friend of my wife Cheryl and a follower of my Facebook Page. Donna asked if I would be able to find a cell phone, in a snowbank. She told me that a friend of hers, Bob, had lost his cell phone, while out plowing, a few days earlier, on Sunday. I replied that I could absolutely find cell phones but I had a few concerns,
1. How big was the snowbank? If the phone was in too deep, the detector wouldn’t be able to find it, unless we broke the snowbank down, by shoveling.
2. Has he any idea where and which snowbank, the phone would be in?
Donna then replied that she would have Bob call me directly and he could inform me, of what happened. The next day Bob called me and explained what had happened. He was plowing a very long driveway, in North Berwick (Maine) . On his first pass, of the driveway, he stopped after pushing the first plow full of snow, into a big snowbank, from the previous storms. He stopped as he was backing up, from the snowbank, maybe 20-25 feet from the snowbank, because his windshield was all icy and he couldn’t see properly. He exited the cab of the truck, cleared the windshield and returned to the cab of the truck. He backed up a little more and began plowing, up in the area of where he had gotten out of the truck. When that area was clear, he was backing up, further down the hill part of driveway, when his earpiece , for his phone, said that his phone had become disconnected and was out of range. Bob was surprised because he thought the phone was on top of the center console. He searched the cab of his truck, but his phone wasn’t there. Bob drove back to the end of the driveway, where he had pushed the first plow full of snow and his earpiece reconnected, with his phone. He looked around the driveway but couldn’t see the phone. That could mean only one thing, he had plowed his phone, into the large snowbank, at the end of the driveway. I agreed to meet Bob the next day, at 9:30am and Bob said he would be bringing someone with him, to help shovel, if needed. I told Bob I would also brig a shovel and a second metal detector, which someone would be able to use.
So, Thursday morning, January 29th, I met Bob and Jason at the property, where the phone was lost at. It was now 4 days after the phone was lost and Bob’s earpiece would no longer connect, with the phone. The freezing cold, over the 4 days had drained the battery. The snowbank was maybe 20-25 feet long and approximately 6 feet high. That is a lot of snow. Bob showed me where he had gotten out of the truck and where he had plowed, right after getting back into the truck. Bob was fairly confident the phone would be in the of the center of the snowbank. If we looked at the snowbank and divided it up into quarters, Bob thought it would be in one of the two middle quarters. We decided I would search the two middle quarters and if I didn’t find there phone, I would then search the two end quarters. After searching the entire front side of the snowbank, I didn’t receive any targets at all. Bob and Jason would start breaking down the front side of the snowbank, by shoveling and throwing the snow, into the driveway. I would go to the backside of the snowbank and search the backside. As I stepped off the top of the snowbank I literally went straight down into the very soft snow, up to my waist. Bob also, at the top of the snowbank had the same happen to him. We both had boots full of snow and had to remove the snow before starting back up. After searching the backside, still no targets at all. Bob and Jason had shoveled a few feet off the front side and they were exhausted. I started my other metal detector up and Bob started searching the front side. Over the next hour or so, Bob, Jason and myself took turns shoveling and metal detecting, with no luck at all. Bob started losing hope and said he would find it in the spring, when the snow melted. With the snowbank now approximately half the size it was when we started I asked Bob if he could take his plow and push the remaining snowbank back a little bit, to expose the deeper snow, towards the bottom of the snow bank. Maybe a foot or two at a time and I would then search the newly exposed snow. None of us wanted to keep shoveling as it would take an hour os so to finish, just the center area. Bob readily agreed to give it a try. Bob then pushed back a foot or so of the snowbank and I went in to search the area. No targets were found. Bob repeated the process and I once again went back and searched the area. As I searched towards the top of the newly plowed snow, I received a loud target and I knew deep down, it was the phone. We had literally not received any targets at all, in this snowbank and now, BOOM, a loud target. I started removing snow, with my hand as Jason looked on and Bob was still in the plow truck. As the snow was being removed, I saw the black top frame, of the phone. Jason and I turned to Bob and told him we had found it. Bob walked over and saw the phone sticking out of the snow bank and said “Wow, thats amazing”. Bob was very happy and was planning on taking it over to the Verizon store, in Sanford, Maine. They have something that they can do to dry the phone out in an hour and then download all the data, onto Bob’s new phone.
This certainly was one of the tougher recoveries I have done. Bob, Jason and myself were beat, after all that shoveling. But, It was all worth it, seeing how happy Bob was to have his phone back. As you know, phones are very expensive now and by recovering the phone, any insurance plans Bob has would cover any damage and the phone can now be used as a trade in. After an hour and a half or so, I was ready to go home, as were Bob and Jason. As I drove off, Bob had to finish cleaning up the driveway, because of all the snow, we had thrown onto it. You can bet he was using the plow and not the shovels. So, another phone, back in the pocket and another smile on their face. I truly have the best job in the world.😀❤️🙏
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