Victorian Lady

Location: Aberdeen - Amatola Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantasmic female figure has been observed on the landing of the hotel.

White Lady

Location: Aberdeen - Ardoe House Hotel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The daughter of a previous owner, this shade is thought to have returned after the girl's suicide.

Pensioner

Location: Aberdeen - Constitution Street
Type: SHC
Date / Time: 19 February 1888
Further Comments: The remains of an aging soldier were discovered in a barn along this road; much of the body had been reduced to ash, though the face was recognisable. The bales of straw that surrounded him had failed to catch fire.

Hooded Figure

Location: Aberdeen - Grassy area near a bus stop on the Kincorthland Estate
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1 January 1970, 05:45h
Further Comments: A cloaked, hooded and masked phantom figure was seen in the early hours of the morning by a woman walking to the bus stop on her way to work. She felt an overwhelming urge to approach the entity, which dissolved like mist and vanished into the grass.

Jake

Location: Aberdeen - His Majesty's Theatre
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre 1982, and 2006
Further Comments: A former stage hand who was decapitated in an accident at the theatre prior to World War 2, Jake disappeared after building work was completed in 1982. However, when renovation work started again, contractors began to report the sound of someone in high heels walking around empty areas of the theatre.

Officer

Location: Aberdeen - King Street, former Barracks (currently Grampian Transport?)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: A Captain with the Gordon Highlanders, this officer lost his bottle prior to being shipped overseas and took his own life. His ghost remains trapped within the building.

Silhouette

Location: Aberdeen - Old Fire Station, King Street (now student accommodation)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: February 2006
Further Comments: A former student who stayed here recalled how a silhouetted figure walked towards him as he stood in the shower - the witness jumped out of the way, injuring his heal. A couple of months later the student was told that the building was reputedly haunted.

Orange Lights

Location: Aberdeen - Over city
Type: UFO
Date / Time: July 2006
Further Comments: A number of reports of strange lights have been recorded during 2006. one family observed six orange lights hovering in the sky before appearing to disintegrate.

Naked Man

Location: Aberdeen - Palace Hotel
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: This unclothed ghost hammered at the windows of the hotel for the period of a week. When finally spotted and approached, he floated away leaving no footprints in freshly laid snow.

Large Purple Fingers

Location: Aberdeen - St Machar Cathedral
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 1970s
Further Comments: Three schoolchildren reported seeing three strange purple fingers with long black nails, unnaturally long, emerging from the cathedral door. They ran.

Going Down

Location: Aberdeen - St Nicholas House
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: July 1998
Further Comments: Two council workers watched a dark haired lady enter a lift, but when they also stepped inside a few seconds later, she had vanished.

The Clencher

Location: Aberdeen - Union Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Many people have reported feeling this entity grab their arms or legs, holding on for several seconds before letting go. It is believed to be a little girl who died violently nearby.

Indian Child

Location: Aberdeen - White Dove Hotel (no longer standing)
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This young Indian girl manifested and stood by a guest in the hotel who was dying of fever - the nurse who saw the ghost said it had terrible injuries on the neck, so severe that she fainted. When the nurse regained consciousness, the strange little girl had gone and the patient was dead.