9 years after being flushed, woman’s wedding ring…

Woman is miraculously reunited with her wedding ring NINE YEARS after she accidentally flushed it down the toilet

  • Paula Stanton, 60,  lost her ring down her toilet as she had been cleaning it
  • She gave up all hope of ever seeing the diamond-encrusted gold ring again 
  • Engineers working on the sewer pipes near her home found it nine years later 
  • The worker who found it remembered speaking to Mrs Stanton years earlier
  • Her ring has been returned and after a thorough cleaning, she is wearing it again

A New Jersey woman has her wedding ring back, nine years after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.

Paula Stanton, 60, was sure the diamond-encrusted gold ring was lost forever after she noticed it wasn’t on her finger while she was cleaning her bathroom nearly a decade ago.

Stanton’s husband, Michael, had given her the ring for their 20th wedding anniversary. 

Paula Stanton, 60, lost her ring down her toilet as she had been cleaning it and gave up all hope of ever seeing the diamond-encrusted gold ring again

The worker who found it remembered speaking to Mrs Stanton years earlier

The worker who found it remembered speaking to Mrs Stanton years earlier

Ted Gogol from the public works department came across the ring as he was carrying out some work in the sewer. He remembered hearing about the lost ring years rearlier

Ted Gogol from the public works department came across the ring as he was carrying out some work in the sewer. He remembered hearing about the lost ring years rearlier

‘I was cleaning and knew I must have flushed it down,’ she said. ‘It had been a little big on my finger, because it was winter time and my hands were smaller. I felt so bad about it. Sad and embarrassed.’ 

‘My husband wound up getting me a replacement ring just like it and said, ‘Hold onto this one,” Stanton said laughing. 

Then, after this years Thanksgiving break she found a note taped to her door asking her to contact the city’s public works department. 

‘I figured they had to work near our house and had to dig up the yard or something,’ Stanton said. 

Ted Gogol of Somers Point’s public works was doing maintenance work near a manhole about 400 feet from Stanton’s house when he saw a shiny object sitting the mud, he told the Press of Atlantic City. 

It turned out to be Stanton’s ring. 

Her ring has been returned and after a thorough cleaning, she is wearing it again

Her ring has been returned and after a thorough cleaning, she is wearing it again

'There are honest people in the world, and I was so happy to have been able to help somebody,' Ted Gogol said. 'People say around this time of year, crazy things happen. She said it was her Christmas miracle.'

‘There are honest people in the world, and I was so happy to have been able to help somebody,’ Ted Gogol said. ‘People say around this time of year, crazy things happen. She said it was her Christmas miracle.’

 ‘I was only in a manhole less than 400 feet away from their house when I saw something shiny sitting in the mud and debris. I realized it was a ring, and I remembered the woman who was looking for a ring,’ he said.

Incredibly, he remembered Stanton mentioning the ring about three years ago when he had been carrying out work on a nearby sewer line in 2015.

‘She had this look on her face while she was telling me about it that said, ‘I can’t believe I did this,’ Gogol said. ‘I told her really nicely that the chances of us finding it … well, just in passing, we’d keep an eye out for it.’ 

Gogol knew it was the right ring because the couple’s initials were engraved on the interior of the band. 

‘He came by after work and dropped it off. Nobody could believe it. Everyone was in a state of shock. I was hugging him and crying,’ Stanton said. ‘I was calling my kids and telling people about it. My family had a difficult year, and for this to happen…’

After boiling it in peroxide and lemon juice, she is now wearing it again alongside her replacement ring.         

‘There are honest people in the world, and I was so happy to have been able to help somebody,’ Gogol said. ‘People say around this time of year, crazy things happen. She said it was her Christmas miracle.’

An engineers working on the sewer pipes near her home, pictured,  found it nine years later

An engineers working on the sewer pipes near her home, pictured,  found it nine years later



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