A75 Kinmont Straight, South West Scotland The Ghost Road..... This particular road in Scotland has been the scene of numerous hauntings for well over 50 years. Reports of paranormal activity and ghost sightings have been so frequent that locals nicknamed it ‘the Ghost Road’. It is thought to be Scotland’s most haunted road with literally hundreds of reports of unexplained sightings to boot. In 1957 a truck driver saw a couple walk in front of his truck and he thought he hit them. When the shocked driver stopped to investigate, the couple were nowhere to be seen. Then in 1962, Derek and Norman Ferguson experienced a very strange series of things as they drove along the A75 near Kinmount, around midnight. A large hen flew towards their window screen, but vanished on the point of impact. The hen was followed by an old lady who ran towards the car waving her outstretched arms. She was followed by a screaming man with long hair and further animals, including great cats, wild dogs, goats, more hens and other fowl, and stranger creatures, who all disappeared! The temperature then suddenly dropped dramatically, and when the brothers stopped the car, it began to sway violently back and forth. Derek got out of the car and the movement stopped. He climbed back in and then, finally, a vision of a furniture van came towards them before that vanished as well. In the 1970s a group of Eastriggs women saw a weird looking phantom or creature on the Kinmount straight that horrified them. In 1995, Garson and Monica Miller of Annan were driving east on the Kinmount section of the A75, near Annan, when they saw someone in their path. It was the figure of a middle aged man, wearing a hessian sack folded over his head and his hands were outstretched towards the direction of the car, with what looked like a rag in his hand. Driving at 60 mph the couple was convinced they had hit the man, and reversed back to the spot, but the figure had gone. The incident was reported to the police in Annan. And in 1997 Donna Maxwell, 27, was convinced she had hit a man in the road whilst driving along the A75 near Swordwellrig with her two children. Travelling at 50 mph she said she saw the man jump out in front of her, about two feet in front of her car. He was in his 30s, with short hair, wearing a red top and dark trouser. She braked hard, involuntarily closing her eyes and bracing for impact. When she opened her eyes, the car had stopped but there was no sign of the man. She contacted the police and the area was searched but there was no evidence of an accident. A description of the accident issued to the media a week later failed to provide any further explanation of the accident. Who are the people behind these mystery apparitions? I dont suppose well ever know! But if you ever decide to take a drive along the A75, beware the wandering phantoms...
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:37:38 +0000