[badmoon8081]

Ok, so today I go into my gallery to show someone a photo I took and to my surprise, all my photos were gone!!! I mean, they weren't anywhere else on the card cause i also noticed I now had about 4gb of free space that I didn't have before. Nothing else, I mean "NOTHING" else is missing. The rest of my SD card including videos/music remains intact. Only the photos in my DCIM folder just disapeared. I can't even think of anything odd I did with my phone to cause this issue. Why would only a certain part of my SD card get deleted? I've lost all the photos I placed on my phone as well as all the photos I took with the camera. No, I don't have a backup. Can they be recovered some how?