Rediscover The Lost & Forgotten
For more than 40 years Elias Hage was married to Eleanor until she passed away in 2011. Every day Elias would take a swim at Waterford Town Beach. On one fateful day, he came out of the water to see the wedding ring he wore since 1960 was gone. Read how Keith Wille turned this heartbreaking story into a fairy tale ending.
Ellen and Michael Stefanski had their share of losses last month, but following a visit from Keith Wille and his XP Deus, a little something meaningful was found.
"I do this because sometimes all people have is a token to remind them of the best parts of their lives," Wille said in an email, "and those memories do not belong lost in the ocean.
Yet after almost three hours of non-stop detector-swinging, Wille was still probing for new leads, maintaining a running conversation with his client. “It makes no difference if I find it with the machine or I jog his memory and he finds it somewhere else,” he said.
Mr. McBride says there is a “better than even” chance that Mr. Wille discovered the site of Tatuppequauog, one of the villages mentioned in the 1638 letter. If it is Tatuppequauog, Mr. Wille would be listed as the discoverer.
After weeks went by Mr. Hage thought all hope was lost but a man with a metal detector and a hobby of finding things changed all that.
A family-heirloom engagement ring is back on the finger of a bride-to-be thanks to a ring-finder who found it after it was lost in the snow.
AGAWAM, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- A Westfield woman and her fiancé are breathing a sigh of relief after someone was able to recover a priceless family heirloom from the snow. They owe it all to a man who works to help people find their lost items. Keith Wille, a professional metal detectorist who specializes in finding lost items.
A professional treasure hunter from Connecticut went viral for finding $46,000 in the floorboards of a Massachusetts home. Since then, his modern-day treasure hunting business has skyrocketed.
A treasure hunter helped a Massachusetts family a settle decades-old rumor that money had been hidden somewhere inside their house since the 1950s. Within an hour's time, Keith Wille found the $46,000 in a lockbox that was hidden under the home’s floorboards.
The New York Times
Keith Wille, a metal detectorist, walks in the Connecticut woods where he has found artifacts. Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times