What
are the chances of finding a lost wedding ring after 16 years that too wrapped
around a carrot? Pretty less! But there are lucky or unlucky few, who witness
the most unbelievable and dramatic things in their lifetime.
One
such person is a Swedish woman, Lena Paahlsson.
Lena
Paahlsson and her husband Ola live on a farm near Mora in central Sweden with their family.
It was like any other Christmas baking session for
this family, back in 1995. Until Lena lost her wedding ring!
Lena
used to wear a white gold band studded with seven small diamonds. She herself
had designed the wedding ring. She had removed her ring and kept it on the
kitchen counter. Little did she know that she is going to soon, lose it.
A
hysterical search began soon after they realised that the wedding ring is
missing. The tiles of the floor were also removed during renovations with the
hope of finding the ring. But they just couldn’t find it. And ultimately Lena
lost all hope of finding her precious wedding ring.
Cut-to 16 years later! Paahlsson was
gathering carrots from the family vegetable farm. She was about to throw away a
finger-sized carrot until she spotted something weird growing around it. A
close look at it revealed that it was her lost white gold and diamond wedding
ring!
“Our daughter Anna was at home at
the time and she heard an almighty scream from the garden,” Ola Paahlsson said
explaining his wife’s first reaction after finding the ring. The ring no longer
fits her but it is in perfect condition and Lena can’t wait to resize it to be
able to wear it again. She said, “Now that I have found the ring again, I want
to be able to use it”. The couple thinks that the ring could have been lost in
vegetable peelings that were turned into compost and from there it found its
way to the farm.
