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Wedding Ring Lost for 16 Years Found Growing on Garden Carrot

Swedish Woman Finds Wedding Ring 16 Years Lost Growing on Garden Carrot

A wedding lost for more than a decade was found growing on this couple's garden carrot. (Photo via The Local)

Recently engaged or married women are often advised to not take off their ring. Lena Påhlsson of Mora, Dalarna, Sweden, learned that lesson the hard way in 1995 when she lost the ring she helped design after taking it off to bake.

After months turned into years of not finding the ring, Sweden’s The Local reports, Påhlsson gave up hope that it would turn up. Now, 16 years after it was lost, the ring has resurfaced in an unexpected way.

The Local has the story:

The ring, which Lena had designed herself, went missing after she had put it on the kitchen counter in midst of a holiday baking session back in 1995.

The couple engaged in a frantic search for the ring, even checked behind the appliances and beneath the floor boards when renovating the kitchen a few years later, but to no avail.

But as Lena was about to gather the last of the carrots from the family vegetable patch last October, she pulled out a carrot that had something attached to it.

As the carrot was so small, she was about to throw it away when she realized what it was that appeared to be “growing” around the finger-sized vegetable.

“Our daughter Anna was at home at the time and she heard an almighty scream from the garden,” Ola Påhlsson, [Lena's husband], told The Local, recalling the day of the miraculous find.

Anna thought Lena had hurt herself and went running to her mother.

She instead found Lena sitting on a chair looking rather shocked.

“It was Lena’s wedding ring that had been missing since 1995 after Lena’s annual Christmas baking. It had surfaced, wrapped around a carrot. Quite amazing,” said Ola.

As to how the ring would have made it into the garden, the couple thinks it could have fallen into the compost bin they used and was then fed to one of their sheep. The ring then could have been spread in the garden as manure.  It is reported that the white gold ring with seven diamonds was in “as good as new” condition.

[H/T GeekOSystem]

Comments (71)

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  • NDPINDNT
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:16pm

    Great story Blaze!

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  • perry1980
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:29am

    with the price of gold today that is the most expensive carrott ever!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:04am

      must have thrown it out with the wet garbage for fertilzer and its been there ever since.

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    • Kaoscontrol
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:29am

      Marinated in sheep stomach. Ewe….

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  • loveoursoldiers
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:05am

    I want to believe this story, but………..

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  • rmcenery
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:38am

    Thank you blaze for writing a heart warming story. Finally!

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  • cardhuu
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:42am

    This gives a whole new meaning to how many carrots is your diamond wedding ring !

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  • pattea party
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:39am

    How amazing! I lost my ring, I have a FB page, “Can Facebook find my wedding ring?” Can you help?

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  • okdavidson
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:43am

    so does that mean its at least one whole carrot? lol what a wonderful find!! thats awesome!
    or… you can add one more carrot to its value! lmao

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  • LovinUSA
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:40am

    What a wonderful story ! There is always a reason, a place and time for everything that happens. We may not know why, but we know who ! God Bless and treasure that ring even more than you would have now!!

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:46am

      Funny headline: The ring was growing??

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    • loriann12
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:41am

      I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration from the time I spent gardening, because you’re quiet and can hear God whisper to you. It would be amazing to have something like that happen.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:18am

      Through a sheep!? I love a good story.

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    • JQCitizen
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:16am

      Yeah, jjcool :

      I also noticed that a “wedding” (not a wedding RING), was found “growing” on a carrot. LOL

      We all know that when you start planning a wedding, the wedding budget grows, and your bank balance shrinks:) Maybe THAT was what they were meaning:)

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:21am

      Amen!

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  • usaywhat
    Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:46am

    And the moral of the story is; sometimes a little sheep S___is a GOOD thing. (smile) And I suspect the mickey mouse ears are really ear-noise protection that farmers wear when operating loud equipment.

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  • blazer809
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:45pm

    God didn’t find the ring, He didn’t even lose the ring…why so many comments about Him?

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    • txbigfoot
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:12am

      your a freak or nature.
      God is involved in all of our lives, maybe not yours,,, so do us a favor. Test fate.
      God Loves you.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:30pm

    great story. we needed it on Jan 2nd. drudge report has obama headed back to DC. UGG.

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  • MCDAVE
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:28pm

    Great story..Nice to read a article that doesn’t scare you or make you angry.

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    • BuzzardSays
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:15pm

      What a good thing to happen to that couple. God has such a grand sense of the perfect story. I am enthralled that suddenly the timing was right to surprise the world with a carrot that just had to have a crown. Jesus rose also and has a crown of glory. To make a methaphor ;-)

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  • LastingLiberty
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:00pm

    Time to plant those magic beans!

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  • Buggs
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:50pm

    Why is a guy from Sweden wearing Mickey Mouse ears?

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  • confederacyofdunces
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:04pm

    It was meant to be found at that point and time.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:17pm

    Just goes to show that veggies can be good for you. Now that’s one expensive salad!

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  • ZengaPA65
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:08pm

    Always wear hearing protection when gardening in Sweden.

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  • larrylarrylarry
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:37pm

    If you have a laptop, turn your monitor sideways and you can see the face of Jesus on the carrot just under the ring, it’s either Jesus or the guy on Zig Zag rolling papers.

    This is a true, once I was jogging up a hill and there was a carrot like plant that looked like it was jerkily going underground bit by bit. I stopped and watched it and it and had a wtf panic reaction and then I went to the other side of it and I could see there was some sort of underground animal pulling it under the dirt.

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    • Maire
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:11pm

      LarryLarryLarry,

      You are strange.

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    • heartitorleaveit
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:15pm

      it couldnt be the same creature thats pulling my leg about the image on the carrot, could it? :]

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:42pm

    I love it! YOU go, GOD!!!

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    • KeystoneState
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:21pm

      1995 was 16 years ago, ur uh 17 now! Ugh! Guess I’m getting old!

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    • mbriz
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:21pm

      ya god finds rings, but let’s the children suffer.

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    • str8blues
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:52pm

      She lost it in August. So not yet 17 years. :0)

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    • str8blues
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:55pm

      @MBRIZ Derrrrrrrr~!

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    • CanteenBoy
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:16pm

      @mrshiz… God answers all prayers… sometimes the answer is, “no”.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:49am

      ya god finds rings, but let’s the children suffer.
      _________________

      Another ignoramous.
      Find out what Free Will means and then you will learn why God let’s the human race destroy itself.

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  • Tregonsee
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:34pm

    No doubt a one “carrot” diamond.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:48pm

      @TREGONSEE……..ack!!….that’s so bad, its actually a good one..lol..

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    • ZaphodsPlanet
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:32pm

      LOL… the first super duper, unreal cheesy joke to make me laugh in a long time….

      Thanks.

      So cool they found it…..

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:23am

      Or you could say it is a “Diamond in the rough-age”

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  • A Conservatarian
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:28pm

    Time to plant me some carrots n’ grow some rings!

    Liz… babe… go purchase a little book called The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.

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  • Predator
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:23pm

    Since when do rings grow?
    Did the mews media recently shoot all the editors? Or is this just a result of the cell phone using spell checking idiot culture?

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    • Predator
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:32pm

      What I wouldnt give for an edit button right about now, NEWS MEDIA, crap….

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:53am

      I think we all understood what they were saying.

      The ring wasn’t literally growing on the carrot. The lady spotted something she thought was growing on the carrot and it turned out to be a ring.

      Do the extra 10 seconds worth of reading to see what I mean…

      “…she realized what it was that appeared to be “growing” around the…” Do you see the quotation marks around the word, “growing?” That means it appeared to be, but wasn’t actually happening.

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    • RRFlyer
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:04am

      It’s all part of the dumbing down of America. Even so called professional publications don’t care if they have poor spelling grammar, or nonsense headlines. You will find a number of these mistakes every day on blaze.

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    • Predator
      Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:46am

      Of course I knew what they meant. That was not the point though. The point is grammar and spelling have gone out the window in the news media.
      Oh my god, I totally thought they meant the ring started growing………no.

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  • Jackie Rogers, Jr.
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:16pm

    The ring was not growing on the carrot.

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  • JustPeachy
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:14pm

    Glad she found it, but I think I’d have it . uh. . CLEANED! LOL

    Happy for this couple. I too lost my engagement ring I designed, but alas it’s likely in another state now. . never really knew what became of it. :-( For me, it’s been probably. . .21 years or so. . .

    And she had a karat “growing” on a carrot?!? LOL

    Who said God doesn’t have a sense of humor?!?

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  • Sergei
    Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:13pm

    Hope my wife has a story like this one…… two words to e-one out there: cubic zirconia

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    • Arminianism
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:32pm

      I’m calling BS! Anyone else agree??

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:47am

      @Arminianism

      I’m not calling BS, but this doesn’t quite pass the smell-o-meter.

      You’ll never hear whether it really happened or not. This is kinda lioke a parable on Sunday morning… don’t look into whether or not the story is true, just pay attention to the object lesson in the story.

      I’m not calling pastors liars, mind you; Jesus Himself used parables that never happened to illustrate his point.

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    • Badler
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:50am

      Maybe the person who stole it finally returned it, sneakily.

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    • rt elms
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:15am

      @leftfighter

      Really? Pick a parable of Jesus to further illustrate your point. I’m interested in exactly which one you think never happened.

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    • RRFlyer
      Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:08am

      Some people lie so much themselves they won’t believe anything anyone says.

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