Nante Niemi found: How missing boy in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park survived alone for 2 days [Video]

MICHIGAN — For the first time, the 8-year-old boy who spent two full days alone in a Michigan state park shared how he survived.

“I prayed for being found, and not stuck out here for the rest of my life,” Nante Niemi said.

This past weekend, Nante was camping with his grandpa and three uncles. The group went to get firewood.

“So my uncle, he said to go back to camp. And, I couldn’t say, ‘I don’t know all the way back to camp,’ because he already turned around and left. I was trying to go diagonal into the part where we came from, and I ended up by a river. I wasn’t even close to the part where we first went up,” Nante said.

Nante quickly realized he was lost. When the group got back to the campsite, they discovered he wasn’t there.

“They took some time to search for him, …