A survivor has set pulses racing after accidentally capturing a creepy figure stalking his campsite late at night.
Jack “Strick” Strickland set himself the challenge of camping on Skull Island, off the north coast of Queensland, for 24 hours.
He shared his daring adventure on his YouTube channel Back 2 Basics Adventures and revealed that the island was no stranger to danger and had a very dark history.
“Welcome to one of Australia’s most remote yet haunted places,” it began.
‘This place has the craziest story of cannibals, headhunting and improbable survival I’ve ever heard.’
He goes on to share footage of himself being interrupted in the middle of the night by a noise.
“At this point I got goosebumps. I heard someone outside,” she tells the camera.
‘My fire that I put out hours ago is burning again and I heard footsteps clearly outside my house, that woke me up.’
Strick from Back 2 Basics developers shared chilling footage of a suspicious ghostly figure while camping on Skull Island
The figure was captured by a tracking camera that only starts filming from the movement.
The next morning, he goes on to share the footage his camera captured overnight of a faceless ghostly figure running away in the distance from his tent.
‘These trail cameras only start filming when two things happen: if there is movement in front of them or if there is a heat source in front of them,’ he said.
‘The crazy thing is that this starts filming when I think I heard the noise and 10 seconds later you see me turn on the flashlight and film inside the loot and then I come out.
But there is no obvious movement, a source from the heart of something has triggered this.
However, online critics have responded by questioning why he was on the island.
“You never received permission from the traditional owners to camp, that’s why you felt disturbed. These are sacred islands that you camped on without permission,” one user commented.
Other social media users wondered if the ghostly figure was real and simply a reflection of the lamp on his head.
“Lens flare. It’s literally the reflection of the headlights on the lens,” one wrote.
“I think it was a lens flare or a speck of dust or a bug. I’m curious why there were no footprints in the sand,” another added.
Skull Island is part of the Sir Edward Pellew Islands group, which lie in the bay into which the McArthur River flows, King Ash Bay, within the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Jack ‘Strick’ Strickland set himself the challenge of camping on Skull Island, off the north coast of Queensland, for 24 hours.
