Was backpacking illegally through a wildlife reserve didn ' t leave anything except my footprints or take anything except pictures down here in the deep south along this creek near the Mississippi river actually my goal was to make it to a peninsula on the Mississippi . Was thick like a jungle and had to cut like literally every step to get through . The first night I found a nice beach spot and hung my hammock up on this hill between two trees and gathered my fire wood for the night . After I was done eating I got ready for sleep and through a bunch of fire wood on the fire to make the light source bigger to keep away predators predators stay out of the light instinctively , they know if they enter it they will be seen . I had a Dakota fire pit and cleared everything around it so it wouldn ' t spread . After only about a couple hours of sleep I was awoken to loud splashes coming down from the creek , It was very dark so I couldn ' t see them but they where big and heavy judging from the splashing , and there was about 40 of them . I knew it was probably a pack of Panthers or something like that we have those around here . So I got up and through more wood on the fire to make it even bigger . Some got curious and came a bit closer to me . but never close enough to be seen . They was playing in the water . Well morning came and they was gone so I packed up and headed deeper into the reserve . I eventually came across their nests luckily they wasn ' t home but I am not joking when I say there must of have been at least a hundred pits of nests . Well not too much further after that I found an island with steep sides all around so I decided to make camp there . I didn ' t know it was an island till I walked the shore and found it , it was indeed an island with creeks running all around it . Deep creeks as well . There was an abandoned camp on it , everything there but no people . But it looked like it was left in a hurry . Everything was knocked over including a propane grill how in the Fuck they got that grill out there I will never know , was hard enough just walking and you couldn ' t have taken a boat cause there was trees laid put across the creek everywhere . So I picked up the camp and turned it into my camp . Stayed on the island two days then decided to make my return trip home was a good full day hike from civilization , and this is where it starts to get creepy . I just had left that abandoned camp when I came across this tent that was deep in the thick . So it was hard to see but I yelled out hello ? ! But there was no answer . I moved closer to the tent and then started getting in easy when I seen huge cuts in the side of tent as if something was trying to get in , or out . No body ' s or blood , but everything including the backpack was left behind . I started to continue my walk out back to civilisation and I came across yet another abandoned camp site . No tent , just two sleeping bags laid out and two empty backpacks . It looked like it had been there for awhile . Eventually I made it back to civilisation but that was one creepy solo backpacking trip . I had weapons on me so I wasn ' t completely scared of the Panthers , had my handguns and lots of blades . But being that close to about 40 predators was a bit crazy . If they would have only have known I I wouldn ' t have had enough bullets in my magazine for all of them . I typed this out at work on my phone so I didn ' t have time you proof read it , sorry if my auto spell messed a bunch of stuff it . It tends to mess up more than it fixes . Unless I ' m drunkEdit For those that are curious I backpacked out to here 30 . 516705 , 89 . 758455 the island is right to the right if you follow the creeks . The path I took started at burnt bridge rd . Look at the peninsula and follow the small creek to then right . Then just north of that is the island . And I followed the creek all the way from where it meets burnt bridge rd