Ghostly apparitions of cars, trains and even planes have been reported from all over Scotland.

One of the more often reported apparitions is a 1934 Austin car on Skye that appears and disappears on the roads without causing any harm to anyone. A local police officer was among those who reported a sighting, as was wildlife writer and photographer Seton Gordon, who told how he and his wife were travelling along a single-track road when they saw the lights of an approaching vehicle. He pulled over into a passing place, but the car never arrived. They looked for a place where it could have turned off, without success.

Phantom cars have also been spotted on the A7 near Stow in Midlothian and the A87 near Glenshiel, and some insist they have seen a ghostly bus on a B-road in East Lothian.

However, the A75 road between Annan and Gretna is considered by those who study these things to be the most haunted highway in Scotland with sightings going back decades.

A motorist from Annan reported seeing a man in his late thirties, wearing a red jumper and dark trousers, suddenly appear in front of her car as she was driving at about 50mph. She slammed on the brakes but was convinced she had hit him.
When she looked there was no-one there. She said later: "I don't regard myself as someone who believes in the paranormal but after that I have changed my mind. I still can't go down that road at night."

Sightings of the man have been reported by others, as have those of an old man with no eyes, and an old woman dressed in Victorian clothes.

A steam train was spotted on an old railway near a caravan site in August 1989 in Stirlingshire, more than 20 years after the line had been closed.

Ghosts have also taken to the skies. Montrose Aerodrome is said to be haunted by a biplane which crashed in 1918. During the Second World War, a pilot tried to land twice but was blocked by a biplane. He was angrily shouting his complaints, after landing at the third attempt, when he was told no-one else had seen it.