She found a lost Clemson ring. Then someone else found hers.

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - In 2017, Clemson University student Catherine Kenyon was getting off the CatBus after a day of class. As the then-senior stepped off the bus, she noticed something was missing.

“I realized my ring was gone. And so I flagged the bus down and searched the bus a little bit.”

Kenyon’s class ring was nowhere to be found.

She searched for awhile, but eventually used the insurance she’d purchased with her original ring to replace it.

Now a PhD student at Clemson, Kenyon was sitting in a research meeting on Feb. 19 when she got a call from an unknown Florence, SC number. She declined - wary of spam callers - and went back to her meeting.

“And then I got a text from the same number and I was like, ’okay, weird.’ And so I open the text and it was a picture of him with my ring,” Kenyon said of Andreaus Hammond, the Clemson graduate who found her ring.

He’d found it three years ago after a large group of students had gotten up off the CatBus.

Then a Southern Wesleyan University basketball player, Hammond searched Facebook and Twitter for Kenyon’s name, but came up short.

“I could never find her, so after that year I kept up with the ring.”

Cut to Feb. 19, when Hammond came across the ring while cleaning out a bag in his Florence, SC, home.

“I looked at the ring again and I looked at her name. I typed in her whole name and a Clemson resume popped up,” Hammond said. The resume had Kenyon’s cell phone number, which Hammond called and texted.

So, three years later, Kenyon’s class ring was found.

If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it is.

Earlier this month, The Greenville News and Independent Mail reported that Kenyon was the one who found Clemson grad Maggie Payne’s class ring in a parking lot on campus. It had stayed there, amongst the gravel and dirt, for four years before Kenyon and her friend, Leah Wiitablake, found and returned it.

Unaware of the coincidence, Hammond, who is mailing the ring back to Kenyon, said the whole ordeal was a result of Kenyon’s “good karma” from returning Payne’s ring to her.

But for Kenyon, it signals something different.

“I think it just speaks volumes to what kind of people live here. Good people.”