A Pennsylvania man thought his parents’ wedding rings were “lost forever”— until he discovered the pieces of jewelry had been hidden all along.
Gary Guadagno told Fox 29 News Philadelphia that he searched all around his childhood home in Berks County while cleaning out the home after his mother died in 2012 for a pair of rings, but had no luck finding them.
“I combed through everything and just assumed they were lost forever,” Guadagno told the news outlet.
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It wasn’t until he got a Facebook message from the home’s new owners, Josh Martin and Hannah Keusher, that he discovered the rings had been in the house all along. “It was a Facebook messenger from a stranger and I read it, and I was in shock,” he said.
The owners of the house told him in a message that they found the missing rings hidden behind a light fixture in the home’s kitchen.
The couple and their children then drove the rings to Guadagno’s home in Phoenixville, Penn. where he could finally be reunited with the memories that had been with his parents since they were married in 1947.
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The couple showed off the rings — which appeared to have classic gold bands — to Fox 29 News Philadelphia. In particular, Guadagno’s mother’s ring contained a square-cut diamond with smaller diamonds surrounding it.
“I’ve wondered so many times about these rings,” Guadagno explained. “[Martin and Keusher] were kind enough to realize that they had sentimental value [to someone].”
The homeowners also decided to send him a video where they found the rings behind the light fixture only to find some more hidden mementos from Guadagno’s parents that they missed the first time around – a bicentennial coin set 1776-1976.
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“What’s that? There’s something else up here,” Martin could be heard saying in a video obtained by Fox 29 when he saw the blue box. He opened it in front of the camera to show a collection of four coins.
Guadagno said he believes the set of coins also belonged to his father, who was an avid coin collector. He noticed that his parents had hidden various items around the house, including cash, in cinder blocks in the basement. He thought he had found all the things his parents had hidden, but he admitted that more discoveries might be lurking in the walls.
“Could be. Who knows?” Guadagno said.
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