Wedding ring found

That is strange and touching. I am sure she will treasure it as a keepsake.

You're right, Patty. While I'm sure that the story is true, it does beggar belief. 13 years' worth of flushing and cleaning is a long time.

There was a movie, many years ago, where an abused woman fakes her own death and sets up a new life somewhere else. Before she left, she threw her rings in the toilet. Her husband, after a while, spots the rings, and the hunt is on.

Given the density of gold, it's plausible that the rings would stay in the bottom of the toilet. Given the amount of, er, solid matter that gets flushed, surely the rings would have been swept along at some point over the years. Maybe this was the downstairs toilet - the one that guests use - that might explain it.

CannyScot -- a plumber hypothesized that the ring might have somehow gotten wedged in some part of the toilet, maybe the water trap, and then just recently came loose.

When I go to the article now it's behind a paywall. When I read it last night it wasn't.

That's a thought Scot. Sometimes older people do not clean as well as they used to or see as well for that matter.

You know there is an S type curve in the bottom of the toilet. I know this because when my son was potty training he flushed the plastic pee guard that goes on the front of the potty seat. It got wedged and the toilet had to be replaced. It took a sledge hammer to get the thing out. So maybe that is where the ring was stuck.

How about it being in the tank and then, finally, working it way out with a flush?

How about the ghost just placing it there as a gag on the living?

Well someone may have accidently swallowed the ring and it took 13 years to work it's way out?

It's a MIRACLE! Poo turned into gold for Juanita's golden years.

My guess is Expat is right -- it was in the tank (he reached in to jiggle something, it snagged the ring, his hand being cold from the water explains why he didn't feel it slipping off, and it hung there until something recently knocked it loose).

My question: are they going to exhume the body to put the ring on him?

I think the son just put his ring on dad for the service. I doubt they'd have left the man's own ring on him for burial if it wasn't lost either Phideaux.

My dad was buried with his wedding ring, favorite watch, and a silver dollar in his pocket (something he always carried). Maybe valuables are removed if there's a tradition of grave-robbing in the area?

I just thought that most people don't bury valuables but that may depend on the family's financial demographic. I am blessed to have daddy's wedding ring which I wear everyday.