A mini tornado was filmed sending music lovers' tents high into the air at Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall over the weekend.
Footage shot by shocked campers showed the canvas homes flying around 100ft off the ground, with people’s belongings also going flying in the process.
One of the tents was seen colliding and wrapping itself around an unsuspecting festival-goer by the main arena.
Power line builder Steven, from Devon, said: "I am down here with a friend performing at the festival and saw it starting, with not many people around noticing.
"There was no wind at all, just very hot, and then you could see it building up and spiralling with dust.
"Then it started ripping tents up and headed toward the main arena.
"I'm not sure if there was any damage to the main tents but I saw at least ten tents ripped up and sent over 100 metres in the air.
"They were being thrown across the camp site, with one coming down and wrapping around the guy walking."
A festival goer’s parent shared a video with Cornwall Live and described the incident as 'being like a tornado'.
They said: “My son captured a tornado at Boardmasters, there were actually two but the second was much stronger.”
One person blamed the rock hard ground for the tents going flying as people would have struggled to place the guide ropes.
They said: “Chances are tent pegs would not be working well because the ground was so hard and people gave up on putting out guy ropes for the same reason.
“The perfect storm.”
Another joked: “Saves them taking them home.”
Around 50,000 people attended the popular festival over the weekend, with headline acts including Kings of Leon, George Ezra and Bastille.
Last year more than 5,000 people linked positive Covid tests to the festival as shocked teenagers slammed attitudes towards the pandemic.
One festival goer, 17, who attended Boardmasters in Newquay, Cornwall, said checks were easily being bypassed with negative lateral flow tests being used by multiple people or copy and pasting results texts.
And others were allegedly openly lying when filling out their digital forms.
A spokesperson for the festival insisted at the time many precautions were taken to make Boardmasters a Covid-safe event, including frequent tests for staff and campers, a well-ventilated site and sanitisation stations.
