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Ocean Returns Ring Lost Since 1969 to Owner
Reported by Alecia Venkataraman, Toni Mitchell, Jesse Jines
- Published: Nov 24, 2025, 12:30 PM EST
- Updated: Dec 8, 2025, 2:53 PM EST
- Duration: 30 sec
- Views: 58
He lost it in 1969. The ocean kept it. Now it’s back—56 years later—and yeah… it still fits.
Credits
- Alecia VenkataramanCreative Director / Producer & Writer
- Toni MitchellReporter & Newsroom Manager
- Lloyd MorrisStudio Character / Actor
- Henry ChandlerStudio Character / Actor
- Curtiss PhilipsenStudio Character / Actor
- Jesse JinesVideo Editor
- Rachel CapuanoPublisher / Studio Character
Transcript
It was lost in 1969.
It slipped off my finger and vanished into the Long Island sound.
And found 56 years later.
Oh, wow.
Oh, this is a whopper.
He kept wondering what to do.
I told him, "If it were your ring, wouldn't you want it back?"
I posted in our Fordham University class of '69 group.
Karen Manning's online post sparked a chain of connections, leading to Alfred's old friend, Ray Faulk.
4 people, once strangers miles apart, joined by one ring and a shared act of kindness that brought it home.
Who'd think after 56 years it'd look new?
Not a scratch, not a fish bite.
This was one I never thought I'd get back,
Now, meet the real Alfred DeStefano, and David Orlowski, the man who brought Alfred's long lost ring home after 56 years.
That's a lot of, uh
That's a lot of paper.
Wow.
I just lost it again.
I can't believe it.
That is it.
Yeah, get me in it too so he, he doesn't
I don't know him, he doesn't know me.
I talked to him on the phone twice now.
That's, no that's- that's pretty cool you got it back after 50 some odd years.
56 years, could you imagine that?