Lost and found rings
1. In 1890, Mrs Talmage of New York lost her ring on the street. A year later, she was contacted by a local blacksmith who said while changing a horseshoe, he had noticed something hard imbedded in the flesh of the horse's foot and realised it was a ring. It was stuck so deep that it took a great deal of effort to extract it. He found Mrs Talmage by the inscription.
2. Lena Paahlsson of Sweden lost her ring in 1995, while she was working in the kitchen. Her entire family looked everywhere for it, but to no avail. Sixteen years later, she pulled up a carrot from her garden and spotted her wedding ring tightly fastened around the vegetable, as if the carrot was wearing it. She theorised that her ring had fallen into some vegetable peelings that were later taken outside and used as compost.
3. In December last year, Jay Bradford's ring fell into the ocean as he was fishing off Long Branch, New Jersey. Bradford was determined to find it, so using GPS co-ordinates to find the exact spot where he thought the ring had fallen, he hired a salvage diver who, against all odds, found the ring 10 minutes later, resting on a rock on the ocean floor. Bradford swore he would never again wear the ring while fishing at sea.
