Chilling moment a ghostly figure is caught on camera at a Skull Island campsite – as a sinister theory emerges about why the outdoorsman was targeted
A survivalist’s heart rate increases after he accidentally captures a creepy figure at his campsite late at night.
Jack ‘Strick’ Strickland set himself the challenge of camping for 24 hours on Skull Island, off the north coast of Queensland.
The island takes its name from its dark and bloody history, in which cannibalism played an important role.
Mr. Strickland was filming in his tent at night when he heard a disturbing noise from outside.
“I’m getting goosebumps right now, I heard someone outside,” he said in a video posted to his YouTube account Back 2 Basics Adventures.
“The fire I put out hours ago is now burning again. I clearly heard footprints next to my stuff. It woke me up.”
The next morning he tells me that his camera had captured footage that night of a faceless, ghostly figure running away from his tent in the distance.
“These trail cameras only start filming when two things happen: there is movement in front of the camera or there is a heat source in front of the camera,” he said.
Strick from Back 2 Basics Adevtnures shared chilling footage of a suspicious ghostly figure while camping on Skull Island
“The funny thing is that the filming starts the moment I think I heard the sound. Ten seconds later you see me turn on the flashlight and film in the swag. Then I come out.
‘But there is no clear movement, there is something in the heart that causes this.’
However, online critics have responded, questioning why he was on the island.
“You never got permission from the traditional owners to camp, that’s why you were disturbed,” one person wrote.
“These are sacred islands where you camped without permission.”
Other social media users questioned whether the ghostly figure was real and merely a reflection of his headlamp.
“Lense flare. It’s literally the reflection of the headlights in the lens,” someone wrote.
‘I think it was a reflection off the lens or a speck of dust/insect. I wonder why there were no tracks in the sand,’ added another.
Mr Strickland explained that the island has a dark history, calling it one of the country’s “most remote, yet haunted places”.
The figure was captured by a wildlife camera that only starts filming when it starts moving.
Jack ‘Strick’ Strickland set himself the challenge of camping for 24 hours on Skull Island, off the north coast of Queensland
“This place has the craziest history of cannibals, headhunting and improbable survival that I’ve ever heard of,” he said.
Skull Island is located in the Torres Strait, off the north coast of Queensland.
According to Strick, the island’s grisly cannibalistic past began after a boat was wrecked when it struck an isolated reef in 1843.
The natives of the island rescued the castaways and brought them to land, where they organized a coordinated attack, cutting off their heads and eating them.
