From min min lights to UFOs, Bruce Highway’s growing reputation as a paranormal hotspot

The Bruce Highway has been the site of numerous paranormal encounters, from min min lights through to UFOs, yowies and shadow figures.

Paranormal tales about the Bruce Highway are common, according to an expert in the paranormal field. Picture: Arun Singh Mann

A paranormal podcast presenter has shed light on why he thinks the Bruce Highway is a massive paranormal hotspot.

Kade Moir says the 1679km highway has been the site of numerous paranormal encounters, from min min lights through to UFOs, yowies and shadow figures.

Several of Mr Moir’s podcast episodes have focussed on UFO encounters on the highway, but it’s not all that’s reportedly been happening.

Mr Moir says truck drivers, in particular, have reported myriad strange encounters along the highway.

“Delivery drivers who go down the Bruce see shadow figures on the side of the road and some even have genuine interactions with them,” he said.

Mr Moir said one man had been driving past a graveyard on the highway when a phantom passenger appeared in his car with him.

“It really is quite an active spot,” Mr Moir said.

“I think a lot of people just don't talk about it.

“You really get every kind of encounter under the sun there.”

Mr Moir says paranormal activity, especially involving UFOs, is particularly prevalent where the highway was closer to coastal areas.

Over time, there have been cases of strange events documented along the stretch of highway.

In late 2019, a married couple reported an eerie event where a cigar-shaped object followed their car along the Bruce Highway bound for Rockhampton.

The object, believed to be the diameter of a small jet and as long as two buses, came within 30 metres of their car, veering left and right next to them.

“My wife saw the object to our right just above tree height, we were following the road veering slight left as the object turned slight right to come along parallel to us and at the same speed - 100km,” the couple said.

“We watched it accelerate for about five seconds until it had disappeared into the distance.”

“The object made no sound and had no trail, nor haze behind it. As we progressed for about ten seconds the trees cleared for a clear close view of the object for another 10 seconds.

One truckie, Garry James Driver, took to Facebook in 2019 to tell the tale of an old section of the Bruce known as the “Badlands”.

The section of highway, now visible simply as the mountain range in the distance when travelling from Marlborough to St Lawrence, was the site of numerous murders, deaths and disappearances.

Mr Moir, who is based in Cairns, said it was starting to get easier for people to speak of their paranormal encounters.

“This happens to everyday people and the mantra of only crazy people see these things or have them happen is fading away,” he said.

“Always be open minded about it because you never know when something could happen to you.”