This story is making national news now...Interesting
The man who found missing, 11-year-old Nadia Bloom of Florida said God told him to "follow the sunrise" into the heart of a treacherous swamp where the girl awaited rescue on a log.
The man who found Nadia Bloom, 11, says God directed his path.
"He [God] directed my path," volunteer searcher James King told "Good Morning America" today. "When you're in a swamp, there's no good-looking way. He led me directly to her. ... I would be praying and calling out Scriptures and at one point I called out, 'Nadia,' and I heard, 'What?'
"That's a huge swamp. It was strictly the Lord. There was no mathematical calculations. It was the Holy Spirit directing me to where he knew she was the whole time," he said.
Although she had been wandering lost in the swamp for four days, Nadia, who has Asperger's syndrome, was calm and matter-of-fact about her situation, King said, only a little disappointed he didn't have any M&Ms on him.
"I don't know what we talked about. I told her she was very brave," King said. "She did say she only slept about two hours a night ... [and] she'd seen a black snake at some point.
"But God kept her safe," he said.
Rescuers covered in mud and brandishing machetes emerged from a Florida swamp Tuesday, carrying Nadia on a stretcher through dense alligator-infested wilderness. She disappeared Friday near the swamplands around Winter Springs, Fla.
King, a member of Nadia's church, said the swamp was so dense it took officials about an hour and a half to get to the pair after his 911 call.
Nadia politely jumped in on that emergency phone call.
"Hi, this is Nadia," she said. "I'm the girl that got lost."
Nadia told King she had gone on a nature walk and gotten lost. "She got plenty of nature," he said.
She had mosquito bites from head to toe and lots of scratches but was otherwise OK, King said.
