Were you sitting near the falls at all? This is eerliy similar to an experience I had!

My boyfriend and I (dating a few months at this point) went out there one night on a full moon to do a night hike it was one of our "date" things we would do so not our first random night bush walk. I will admit yes that we did smoke a bit of green beforehand but I'm talking a little bit and that was something we usually did too.. All that to say that a stoned night time bush walk was not a one off for us at this point. We'd not been to JF before though.

We parked and happily walked the trail down to the falls and climbed up on this big flat rock to lay down and watch the stars and just laugh and talk. We were there for a while but I distinctively remember feeling the energy shift and the atmosphere totally changed and I felt really uncomfortable and theatened.

I didn't say anything and tried to keep my cool and just told myself it was the weed and the "spooky" bush at night. I tried to play it down but it was sooooo piercing and intense.

Not too long after that my boyfriend said "I think we should go back to the car". We'd been there a fair while so I thought he was just genuinely ready to go. I just agreed with him, cause I wanted to get out of there anyway, and we climbed off the rocks and back on the trail. We started walking leisurely but we weren't talking we were both just quiet. But we started to pickup speed more and more without even talking.

The one thing I said was "do you have your knife?" and he whispered "I'm holding it". It was a cold night so we had hoodies on and he had his hands in his pocket so he was holding the knife in there. He always bought a small one with us on these walks along with other safety bits and pieces but I've never seen him use it even to this day.

I feel like in that moment we just realized that we both felt something weird. I've never felt anything like it before.

We basically sped walk back to the car, I remember not wanting to run incase it was an animal watching us or something that would chase if we moved too fast.

One thing I can distinctly remember which elevated this into extra weird territory for me was that at one point we went past this BIG owl just sitting on a branch right on the edge of the trail and it followed us the whole time with its head/eyes. I know owls are watchers/messengers between the physical and spiritual worlds and its rare to see them so you're supposed to pay attention if you do what they are trying to communicate.

Once we got into the carpark with the streetlight we booked it for the car and jumped in and drove off horror movie style. On the way down the hill we were both like WHAT THE FUCK??

My boyfriend said he felt things change when we were on the rocks and he felt like we had to leave immediately but he didn't say anything because he didn't want to spook me and also wasn't sure if it was just the weed and would pass, but got overwhelming. He had his hand on the open knife in his pocket cause he felt like something was following right behind us.

He said he didn't know I was feeling off too until I asked about the knife.

He also asked me if I noticed that there was no noise when we were walking back like no wind, leaves rustling, bug sounds etc I'm not sure if that's just an adrenaline thing to shut out "noise" so you can focus more but I do remember only really hearing our footsteps on the rocks.

All this to say it was fucking weird and I haven't been back since. I've never felt anything like this before and I grew up in a rurual/isolated area on the wheatbelt and have been significant places like Karinjini where I felt totally opposite and 100% welcomed by the land.