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Young bloke’s spooky late-night encounter reignites chilling rumour about popular tourist hotspot in Australia

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Bodhi Jako (pictured) believes he may have come face to face with the alleged serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Byron Bay, in northern New South Wales.

A tourist has revived theories that a serial killer is lurking in Byron Bay after a chilling late-night encounter with a stranger.

Sunshine Coast content creator Bodhi Jako shared a video on Sunday recounting his experience with a man he feared could be the ‘Butcher of Byron Bay’, a suspected serial killer believed to be behind dozens of attacks in northern New South Wales over the past 50 years.

The theory that a serial killer is linked to more than 60 disappearances since the 1970s was raised by New South Wales state MLC Jeremy Buckingham in October last year.

He highlighted an “alarming similarity” between 67 murder and missing persons cases between Newcastle and Byron Bay and called for a special investigation.

Jako on Monday shared his own disconcerting experience with an unknown stalker in mid-2024.

‘I was sleeping on the floor at my friend’s house. In the weeks leading up to tonight, a lot of questionable things happened,” he said in a TikTok video.

‘This house belonged to two girls and creepy notes and anonymous flowers had been left on their front door.

‘One night they woke up to noises outside their window, and when they opened the curtains, there was a man standing there.

Bodhi Jako (pictured) believes he may have come face to face with the alleged serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Byron Bay, in northern New South Wales.

“Super incomplete, super rare.”

Jako claimed that the man returned and could have entered the girls’ house if he had not woken up.

“At about two in the morning I wake up for no particular reason,” he said.

‘I just woke up, I look to my right and I hear a little crack.

‘There’s a head poking through the curtains in the early hours of the morning, watching.

“As soon as the man sees me, his head shoots through the curtains, and that was it.”

Mr. Jako had no doubt that the man he saw had bad intentions.

“A lot of other scary things happened after this and the girls were forced to move out of the house,” she said.

Kayley was so traumatized by a sinister man wearing gloves that she began mapping unsolved murders.

Kayley was so traumatized by a sinister man wearing gloves that she began mapping unsolved murders.

“That guy, who stuck his head out of the curtain, could be the same person responsible for all the people who have disappeared.”

Last year, Laura, 37, and Kayley, 28, shared similar stories of their own experiences with a predator.

They were quickly inundated with messages from other people who had had similar experiences on the state’s north coast.

“This goes back to the ’70s and is as recent as last week,” Laura told Daily Mail Australia in October.

“People tell me such alarming details of things that happened to them too, sexual assault, harassment, excessive alcohol consumption and they even give me names.”

Kayley, from Melbourne, started the conversation after remembering being harassed by a stranger while on holiday in Byron Bay in August 2024.

“I was walking along the road in (nearby) Suffolk Park towards the beach when a car with a couple in front slowed down,” he said.

‘The look of terror on their faces as they looked past me made me turn around.

Two women have revealed chilling incidents in the Byron Bay area, 15 years apart, prompting a flood of similar accounts from others.

Two women have revealed chilling incidents in the Byron Bay area, 15 years apart, prompting a flood of similar accounts from others.

‘There was a man right behind me in a hat, sunglasses and gloves and I had never felt such evil in my life.

“I don’t know what his intentions were for me, but I had a feeling he wasn’t there to rob me.

“It was just horrible.”

Kayley immediately fled to the safety of the beach where her friends were waiting, but the feeling that she had dodged a sinister fate remained with her.

“I knew something violent was about to happen,” he added.

“This was in broad daylight on a busy street and I couldn’t let it go so I reported it to the police.”

However, Kayley encountered a “grueling experience” being shuttled between the Byron Bay police station and the local police station in Melbourne.

“They were both telling me I had to show up at the other and I just couldn’t get anywhere,” he said.

Last year, Laura, 37 (pictured), and Kayley, 28, shared similar stories of their own experiences with a predator.

Last year, Laura, 37 (pictured), and Kayley, 28, shared similar stories of their own experiences with a predator.

After sharing her experience as a warning to tourists, Kayley was also inundated with messages making disturbing new allegations of similar attacks in recent decades.

“There are brutal sexual assaults, people have escaped kidnapping attempts and I can see that there are common similarities,” he said.

‘I don’t know how to support these people. I’m trying to tell them to tell the police, but some people are scared and it’s very worrying.’

New Attention on Cold Case Murders Triggered Laura’s memory of her own terrifying experience hitchhiking with a friend on the 5km journey from Suffolk Park to her home in nearby Byron Bay in 2008.

A van stopped to take them, but they were alarmed by what they saw inside the vehicle.

“When I got into the guy’s truck I could see a huge rusty knife on the front seat and I moved it to the floor,” he told Daily Mail Australia.

“I didn’t really think much of it and asked him why he had the knife.”

The mysterious stranger in his 30s said he was a chef, but Laura immediately felt uncomfortable.

“I knew that knife wasn’t a kitchen knife,” he said. ‘It was huge and rusty.

“(And when) I asked him where he worked, he said he was unemployed.”

Laura and her friend immediately sped off after pretending to the driver that they had arrived at their destination.

He said he had all but forgotten about the encounter until this week’s revelations about dozens of unsolved murders in the area.

But Laura now believes she too may have cheated death, and others have sent her dozens of messages with new details of similar cases and incidents.

“Some people have given me names of family members they believe are involved,” he says.

‘Parents, ex-partners and colleagues. Many are too afraid to go to the police or think that the information they have is not enough to move forward.

But Byron is not the place people think. There is a dark and dangerous side.’

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