The Paranormal Database

Peering Face

Location: Kirkconnel (Dumfries and Galloway) - Unnamed house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1890
Further Comments: At night weird laughter would be heard and a strange face would look in through the windows. A bridge close to the property was home to a red figure who manifested at dusk, although would vanish if anyone approached.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2012-02-25   Last updated: 2012-02-25   ID: #10714

Joyous Footsteps

Location: Kirkconnell (Dumfries and Galloway) - Kirkconnell House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: According to the current owners (2023), phantom footsteps are heard running around after the birth of a child, as if celebrating the new arrival. In another incident, a ghostly former nanny, perhaps displaying concern, manifested over a grieving woman.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2023-05-01   Last updated: 2023-05-01   ID: #14869

Headless Woman

Location: Kirkcudbright (Dumfries and Galloway) - Bridge in the Buckland Valley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Although frightening, the headless woman on the bridge had a reputation for helping the underdog and was credited for foiling a robbery by scaring the (potential) victim away. It was thought that she had been robbed and murdered close by and was determined to prevent others from suffering the same fate.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2018-12-26   Last updated: 2018-12-26   ID: #13049

Cornerless Buildings

Location: Kirkcudbright (Dumfries and Galloway) - Various buildings in the area
Type: Legend - Old Nick
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: To prevent the Devil from hiding and causing chaos, several buildings in the area were constructed without corners.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2018-12-26   Last updated: 2018-12-26   ID: #13052

Lost Soul

Location: Kirkland (Dumfries and Galloway) - Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Nothing is known about the ghost which haunted this bridge, other than it no longer does so.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2012-02-25   Last updated: 2012-02-25   ID: #10727

Pink Lady

Location: Kirkmahoe (Dumfries and Galloway) - Carnsalloch House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Named by one media outlet as 'one of the most haunted buildings in Scotland', the site was supposedly home to a ghostly pink lady, and a headless horseman who would traverse the driveway. Fire heavily damaged the house in 2018.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2025-06-29   Last updated: 2025-06-29   ID: #15969

Hooded Dead Figure

Location: Lochmaben (Dumfries and Galloway) - Woodland around Lochmaben Castle
Type: Vampire
Date / Time: 1991 onwards
Further Comments: Tom Robertson investigated the woods after hearing stories that animals had been found drained of their blood. He encountered a tall figure dressed in sacking with a hood over its head, with black eyes and grey face. The creature leapt into a tree and swung away. Eight years later Robertson went looking for the creature again, finding it and taking a couple of photographs.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2012-03-18   Last updated: 2012-03-18   ID: #10774

Lockerbie's tall glowing figure.

Tall White Figure

Location: Lockerbie (Dumfries and Galloway) - Area near Dryfe Bridge, next to old cemetery
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: August 1899
Further Comments: A local man fled this area after encountering a tall white figure which was surrounded by a glowing halo. The entity vanished.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2016-03-27   Last updated: 2016-03-27   ID: #12079

Hound

Location: Mainsriddle (Dumfries and Galloway) - Road between village and Prestonmill, area once known as Dairymaid's Hollow
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Pre-1890
Further Comments: A black dog which was said to haunt this area was once heard invisibly passing by three women, although one of them speculated the sound may have been a peacock. A woman in white was also seen by a doctor using the road.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2012-02-25   Last updated: 2012-02-25   ID: #10733

Now Gone

Location: Marwhirn (Dumfries and Galloway) - Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Nothing is known about the ghost which haunted this bridge, other than it no longer does so.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2012-02-25   Last updated: 2012-02-25   ID: #10723

Hard Working Brownie

Location: Moffat (Dumfries and Galloway) - Bodesbeck Farm
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A helpful brownie would help with the harvest each year, much to the delight of the farmer. However, when he finally decided to reward the entity with milk and bread, the creature left him.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2004-08-22   Last updated: 2004-08-22   ID: #5391

Footsteps

Location: Moniaive (Dumfries and Galloway) - Doctor's private residence
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1890
Further Comments: A doctor's housekeeper reported often hearing footsteps in a room upstairs, although the source would never be found. After a while, the doctor fell ill and died, on the spot where the footsteps had been heard most frequently.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2012-02-25   Last updated: 2012-02-25   ID: #10715

Skirt

Location: New Abbey (Dumfries and Galloway) - Sweetheart Abbey
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: July 2003
Further Comments: Seen climbing the stairs behind a safety railing, a witness reported seeing a long grey skirt without a torso.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2009-12-31   Last updated: 2009-12-31   ID: #9769

Faceless Woman

Location: Newton Stewart (Dumfries and Galloway) - Cairnsmore manor house (8 miles outside the village)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: November 1956
Further Comments: Two builders leaving the empty house for the last time after completing a month-long contract heard continuous heavy rumbling from the upper floor. Both men ran upstairs, concerned part of the old manse had collapsed. The noise stopped when they reached the first floor, but they glimpsed a woman in a long dark dress who vanished. Not wanting to lock up the house with someone inside, they searched for the woman and found her in the attic; her grey featureless face looking towards the men sent them running.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2007-06-12   Last updated: 2007-06-12   ID: #7593

Gunman

Location: Newton Stewart (Dumfries and Galloway) - Caldons farmhouse (9 miles north of town)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1941
Further Comments: This farmhouse phantom could be seen standing outside the building, pointing a rifle into a room through an open window.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2007-04-03   Last updated: 2007-04-03   ID: #7171

Old Fashioned Man

Location: Newton Stewart (Dumfries and Galloway) - Glebe Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1996, 1998, 2006
Further Comments: Several strange events have occurred on or around the bridge. In 1996, a group of teenagers playing nearby spotted a man wearing old fashioned clothing - when they went to see who it was, he disappeared. A kangaroo-like creature was seen in 1998, while in 2006 wailing was heard from under the bridge.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2009-04-19   Last updated: 2009-04-19   ID: #9273

White Lady

Location: Newton Stewart (Dumfries and Galloway) - Slaughterhouse Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s onwards
Further Comments: The woodland takes its name from a disused slaughterhouse. The white female form seen drifting in the area is thought to be the ghost of a woman involved in a car accident nearby.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2009-04-19   Last updated: 2009-04-19   ID: #9272

Currie the Pirate

Location: Portpatrick (Dumfries and Galloway) - Dunskey Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Three ghosts were said to haunt this site; a chambermaid who jumped off the nearby cliffs, a piper who became lost exploring secret tunnels, and a pirate named Currie.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2021-09-14   Last updated: 2021-09-14   ID: #14270

Early Poltergeist

Location: Ringcroft (Dumfries and Galloway) - Mackie's Farm (no longer standing)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1695
Further Comments: An early poltergeist case, with the offending spirit releasing Mackie's herds from his barn and bruising people with stones and sticks. Priests who came to exorcise the entity were driven away, though the spirit finally left on its own accord - after forming a large black cloud that drifted away, normality returned to the household.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2002-11-03   Last updated: 2002-11-03   ID: #3015

Abraham Crichton

Location: Sanquhar (Dumfries and Galloway) - Churchyard and district
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area was shunned by locals, as Crichton's shade would try to grab anyone who came too close. The ghost was finally exorcised by a preacher armed with a Bible and a sword.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2003-02-18   Last updated: 2003-02-18   ID: #3907

Gourlay

Location: Sanquhar (Dumfries and Galloway) - River Nith
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Gourlay was murdered by his lover and her two sons after he witnessed the trio murder a peddler. He was drowned in the waters of the Nith, and it is here that his cries of help are heard.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2004-11-23   Last updated: 2004-11-23   ID: #5604

John Wilson

Location: Sanquhar (Dumfries and Galloway) - Sanquhar Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Wilson was murdered just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and his ghost still protests. A blonde-haired lady dressed in white also haunts the castle - she was murdered in the late sixteenth century, though her body remained undiscovered for almost three hundred years.

Source: Published Media
First added: 2003-02-18   Last updated: 2003-02-18   ID: #3888

White Lady

Location: Shinnel (aka Shinnell) Water (Dumfries and Galloway) - Paul's Pool
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1890
Further Comments: A white lady was said to haunt this little waterfall along the river, hovering while bathed in moonlight.

Source: Historical Record
First added: 2012-02-25   Last updated: 2012-02-25   ID: #10720

Sea serpent, from Konrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium, 1558.

Speared Serpent

Location: Solway Firth (Dumfries and Galloway) - General area
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: After finishing off the local fish population, a large serpent came ashore and started snacking on the local population. Survivors set a trap for the creature; a long line of sharpened wooden stakes were placed along the waterline, which the beast impaled itself upon.

Source: User Submission
First added: 2005-09-27   Last updated: 2005-09-27   ID: #6609

Betsy Jane

Location: Solway Firth (Dumfries and Galloway) - Waters of the Solway
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 25 December - Betsy Jane appears, and the Rotterdam prior to a maritime disaster
Further Comments: Laden with a golden profit made from selling slaves, God extracted revenge on this heinous practice by sinking the ship and killing all the crew on Christmas Day, just prior to the vessel docking. The passenger ship Rotterdam, which sank in the nineteenth century with the loss of all hands, is still seen, normally as a warning prior to a major disaster at sea. A hearty mix of other spectral vessels has also been reported.

Source: Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2003-04-12   Last updated: 2003-04-12   ID: #4093