A fifteen-mile stretch of the A75 between Annan and Dumfries in Dumfries and Galloway is widely regarded as the most haunted road in Scotland. Known locally as the Kinmount Straight, this section of trunk road crosses flat, open moorland and has been the setting for an extraordinary number of reported supernatural encounters — enough that the road has been the subject of multiple investigations, a BBC documentary, and persistent local legend.
The most dramatic incident occurred in 1962 when a truck driver named Derek Ferguson and his companion reported a night of sustained terror while driving the Kinmount Straight. They claimed that a procession of figures appeared in the road ahead — an old woman, screaming men, and various animals — all of whom vanished on impact with the vehicle. The figures were followed by a large, amorphous shape that engulfed the truck before dissolving. Ferguson reported the incident to the police and maintained his account for the rest of his life.
Since then, dozens of motorists have reported encounters on the same stretch of road. The most common sighting is of a figure — sometimes described as an old woman, sometimes as a man — standing in the middle of the road at night. Drivers who swerve or brake find no one there. Others have reported phantom vehicles approaching head-on before vanishing, unexplained screams heard through closed car windows, and a pervasive sense of dread that descends without warning. In some accounts, car radios have cut out or switched to static, and engines have stalled. The area around the Kinmount Straight has associations with Covenanting history and an old coaching route, but no single historical event has been definitively linked to the sheer volume of reported activity on this road.