Ghost Road

The Kinmount Straight is often called Scotland’s most haunted road, and has been the site of numerous bizarre sightings over the last 50 years. Drivers report seeing everything from people to carriages to animals, with figures stepping in front of cars, only to disappear before impact.

The Ferguson brothers witnessed an alarming variety of phenomena on the A75, including the ghost of an older lady who ran towards them with outstretched arms, and several ghostly beasts.

Another couple reported seeing a man by the roadside with a sack over his head.

Worried they’d hit him, they turned back to check – but when they reached the spot where they’d seen him last, the man was gone.

Bob Sturgeon, who ran a roadside snack van near the ‘sighting hotspot’ (ghost watching is a hungry sport, after all), rarely went a week without someone spying a ghost. The most common sighting was bedraggled people pulling carts or carrying bundles.

One lorry driver was apparently so traumatised by his experience that he gave up on lorry driving altogether.