Social Networking Barrage Yields Holiday Miracle as Engagement Ring Is Found

A woman who lost her engagement ring traveling on Boston’s commuter rail turned to the power of social networking to be reunited with her priceless family heirloom.

According to the Boston Globe, the 25-year-old woman left her engagement ring on the train on her way to work. She had taken off the ring for just a moment to apply hand sanitizer. When she got to work, she realized the ring was gone.

“I knew exactly how I’d lost it,” Katelyn Peckham told the Globe. “I knew right away, and I burst into tears.’’ Peckham said the ring was irreplaceable because the half-carat center diamond once belonged to her mother.

Peckham’s co-workers were immediately on the case, sending out emails, tweets, and Facebook messages with pictures of the ring. They asked friends and family to keep an eye out.

Commuter rail employees apparently noticed the messages on Twitter and notified the train operators.

Peckham frantically called the commuter rail’s lost and found department and then returned to North Station, where she ran from train to train, asking conductors and passengers if they had seen the ring. With no success she was certain that the ring was gone forever…

But as this is the holiday season, Peckham’s tale had to have a happy ending. By a stroke of good luck, a conductor doing his usual sweep discovered the ring in the train. And like a fairy tale, Peckham – just by chance – boarded that same train to continue her search. He asked her if the ring was what she was looking for.

Thanks to great co-workers, dedicated friends, the power of social networking and a super-honest train conductor, Peckham’s near disaster turned into a special day to remember. Two generations from now her grandchildren will never believe the story.