11 Haunted Places in Scotland
Every case file on record in Scotland — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
A75 Kinmount Straight — Scotland's Most Haunted Road
B · Annan, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland — The Kinmount straight of the A75 near Annan was called the most haunted road in Scotland by BBC News in 2013, after decades of screaming hags, eyeless phantoms, great cats and a phantom furniture van …
A9 at Slochd — The Coach and the Bewigged Footmen
B · Slochd Summit, Highland, Scotland — Britain's main road to the far north, where it crosses the moors at Slochd Summit, was ranked the nation's second most haunted road by the Tarmac company's 2006 national survey — the entry built on a …
Ben Macdui — Am Fear Liath Mòr, the Big Grey Man
B · Ben Macdui, Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire, Scotland — Britain's second summit and its only native giant: Am Fear Liath Mòr, the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui — the unseen presence walkers meet on the high plateau, footfalls padding beside and behind at thre…
Flannan Isles Lighthouse — The Three Keepers Who Vanished
A · Eilean Mor, Outer Hebrides, Scotland — Scotland's great unsolved mystery: in December 1900 the light on the Flannan Isles was seen burning by a passing ship — and when the relief tender Hesperus arrived on 26 December, all three keepers ha…
Glamis Castle — The Monster and the Grey Lady
A · Glamis, Angus, Scotland — The Bowes-Lyon family seat, Shakespeare's 'Thane of Glamis' — keeper of Victorian Britain's favourite aristocratic secret and two ghosts, one of them still checking the accounts.…
Greyfriars Kirkyard — The Mackenzie Poltergeist
A · Edinburgh, Scotland — A 16th-century graveyard whose locked Covenanter's Prison holds, by wide report, the most documented violent poltergeist in the world.…
Loch Ness — Nessie, the World's Most Searched-For Animal
A · Urquhart Bay, Loch Ness, Highlands, Scotland — The world's most famous cryptid lives in Britain's largest lake — a serpentine animal reported from a shore road that opened in 1933 and never closed again: the Spicer land sighting, the first photogr…
Maeshowe — The Tomb the Vikings Signed
A · Mainland, Orkney, Scotland — The finest chambered tomb in north-west Europe and the graffiti that made it immortal: built around 2800 BC on Orkney, its stone passages aligned to the midwinter sunset, Maeshowe kept its dead throug…
Rosslyn Chapel — The Murdered Apprentice
B · Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland — The carved stone forest of Midlothian — the fifteenth-century St Clair chapel whose Apprentice Pillar coils with vines no master could match — keeps Scotland's most literary legend: the master mason, …
New Slains Castle — The Castle on the Cliff that Wrote Dracula
B · Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland — The roofless ruin on the clifftop at Cruden Bay where Bram Stoker, holidaying in the village through the 1890s, found the architecture of Castle Dracula — the octagonal hall of the novel's first act i…
Southern Necropolis — The Gorbals Vampire Ground
A · Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland — The Gorbals' great working-class cemetery, opened 1840 and holding more than 250,000 dead in crowded lairs — where, on the evening of 23 September 1954, hundreds of Glasgow children arrived armed with…