{"id":229189,"date":"2026-03-31T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229189\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:41:08","slug":"missing-san-antonio-treasure-discovered-on-texas-best-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229189\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing San Antonio treasure discovered on Texas’ ‘best beach’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best-case scenario became reality after a San Antonio high school football player lost his class ring nearly 200 miles away from home.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, March 29, metal detector hobbyist Mark Gibson posted to the Port\u00a0Aransas Friends Facebook group that he’d found a Harlan High School<\/a> class ring along the beach that previous Wednesday. Gibson said he found it while searching\u00a0Port Aransas \u2014 “like I do almost every day all\u00a0winter long on many beaches all over this area” \u2014 for two other lost rings he’d seen on social media.<\/p>\n

The Wyoming, Minnesota, native who calls himself the Ring King said he’s been wintering in Port A \u2014 recently dubbed the “best beach in Texas”<\/a> \u2014 for 12 years. According to him. Lost rings are hard to reunite with their owners. He would know, as his post says, he found his 750th just a day after locating the Harlan class ring. However, class rings can be the exception. This one had the name of the school, a first name and the player’s jersey number, making it easy to call the school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I left my name and number,” Gibson said. “Less than two hours later the kid’s mom who lost it called me with a positive ID and was over the moon with excitement.”<\/p>\n

Continuing, he recalls the story of how the senior’s ring\u00a0was lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They were in Port A<\/a> about a month ago and her son was playing football in the water with his\u00a0friends and lost his ring,” Gibson wrote. “She said the football moms prayed someone with a detector would find it some day and try to return it.”<\/p>\n

The ring hasn’t quite found its way back to the owner. Gibson says after he offered to send it back, the football moms said they’ll be driving down to Port A over the Easter weekend to retrieve it themselves and meet “Mr. and Mrs. Ring King in person to help celebrate this joyous occasion.”<\/p>\n

Gibson told MySA via text message that out of the 750 rings he’s found, his “favorite ones are the ones I have been able to return on my own to the owners or if they have called me to help find their lost ring and I was able to go do that for them.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Returning lost rings is the least I can do for folks that may never have seen their ring again had I not gone over it with my coil,” Gibson said. “God is good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best-case scenario became reality after a San Antonio high school football player lost his class ring nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2527,820,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-229189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-mysalifestyle","9":"tag-mysastaff","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","12":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}