In 2004, a lady named Mary Grams misplaced her engagement ring while pulling weeds at her family’s farm in Alberta, Canada. She thought it was gone for good.
Mary spent days searching for her ring but had no luck. Then in 2017, nearly 13 years after losing it, her daughter-in-law pulled out a weird-looking carrot from the garden. It turned out that the carrot was wearing something of its own! Tightly wrapped around the big orange root was a diamond ring!
“I went to the garden for something and saw this long weed. For some reason, I picked it up and it must have caught on something and pulled [the ring] off,” Mary Grams remembers about that day in 2004 when she lost her engagement ring. She had worn this piece on her finger since 1951, just before marrying Norman. “We looked high and low on our hands and knees but couldn’t find it. I thought for sure either they… it or something happened to it.”
At that time, Mary didn’t tell her husband about losing the ring. To avoid hurting his feelings, she decided to buy herself a similar-looking one hoping he wouldn’t notice.
“I didn’t tell him because I thought he’d give me trouble or something,” Mary told CBC Canada.
Eventually, Mary and her family moved to Camrose but still took care of their old garden near ArmenᎥa which had been in their family for over 105 years.
“I knew it must belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law because no other women lived there,” Colleen Daley said to reporters. “I asked my husband if he recognized the ring; he said yes! His mom lost hers years ago in that same garden and never found it again.”
Daley added: “If you look at it closely ,it grew perfectly around [the ring]. It looked pretty strange.”
“I’ve never seen anything like that before; quite interesting!”
Of course ,Mary was excited to have her engagement rᎥng back again! She plans to wear it where it’s meant to be.
She said: “I’m going to wear it because it’s still fits.”
Sadly ,Mary’s husband passed away over five years ago shortly after they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
