Terrifying moment ghostly figure is caught on camera at a Skull Island campsite – as a sinister theory emerges about why the outdoorsman was targeted
A survivalist has sent pulses racing after accidentally capturing an eerie figure stalking his campsite late at night.
Jack ‘Strick’ Strickland set himself a challenge of camping at Skull Island, off the north coast of Queensland, for 24 hours.
The island has drawn its name from its dark and bloody history that involved cannibalism.
Mr Strickland was filming inside his tent at night when he heard a concerning sound come from outside.
‘I’ve got crazy goosebumps at the moment, I heard someone outside,’ he said in a video posted to his YouTube account Back 2 Basics Adventures.
‘My fire is now going again that I put out hours ago and I heard foot prints straight unmistakably outside my swag, it woke me up.’
The following morning he goes on to share that overnight his camera picked up footage of a faceless ghost-looking-figure scurrying away in the distance of his tent.
‘These trail cameras only start filming when two things happen if there is movement in front of it or if there is a heat source in front of it,’ he said.
Strick from Back 2 Basics Adevtnures shared bone-chilling footage of a suspicious ghostly figure while camping on Skull Island
‘The crazy thing, this starts filming when I reckon I heard the noise and 10 seconds later you see me then turn the torch on and filming inside the swag and then I come outside.
‘But there is no obvious movement, a heart source of something has triggered this.’
However, online critics have hit back question why he was on the island.
‘You never got permission from traditional owners to camp thats why you were disturbed,’ one wrote.
‘These are sacred islands that you camped on without permission.’
Other social media users questioned whether the ghostly figure was real and merely a reflection from his head lamp.
‘Lense flare. It’s literally the headlights reflection in the lens,’ one wrote.
‘I think that was either a reflection off the lense or a dust mote/bug. I’m curious to know why there weren’t any tracks in the sand,’ another added.
Mr Strickland explained the island had a dark history and labelled it one of the ‘most remote, but haunted places’ in the country.
The figure was caught on a trail camera that only starts filming from movem,ent
Jack ‘Strick’ Strickland set himself a challenge of camping at Skull Island, off the north coast of Queensland, for 24 hours
‘This place has the craziest history of cannibals, head hunting and unlikely survival that I have ever heard,’ he said.
Skull Island is a part of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of islands which lie in the bay into which the McArthur River flows, King Ash Bay, within the Gulf of Carpentaria.