The Ghost Road, A75, Dumfries and Galloway/Wigtownshire

One clear dry evening in April 1963, two brothers stopped to refuel their car before continuing their drive home to Annan. The pair, Derek Ferguson, 22, and Norman, 14, had just spent the previous week on holiday touring Scotland in their father’s car. They had 15 miles to go before reaching their home in the South of Scotland. It was probably the most memorable 15 miles they ever traveled.
Just outside Dumfries, a large chicken like bird suddenly flew through the air, seemingly hitting the car windscreen and causing Derek to swerve. The brothers scarcely had to time to breathe, when suddenly the shrieking figure of an old woman with outstretched hands ran at the moving car, disintegrating into thin air at the point she would have been hit. Following this, an unearthly cavalcade of ghoulish figures appearing on the road as Derek drove. Cats, strange dogs, goats, other weird animals and the apparition of a longhaired, screaming old man preceded the car on its journey. Derek swerved this way and that trying to avoid them, but each one vanished when the car was about to collide with it.

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