The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen

The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen surveys the Granite City through its folklore, historic curiosities and reports of unexplained events. Geoff Holder covers magic, witchcraft, superstitions and urban legends alongside gargoyles, graveyards, prehistoric burial sites, stone circles, UFO reports and freak weather. The book also considers darker episodes, including bodysnatching, spontaneous human combustion and stories surrounding William Wallace’s dismembered limbs.

Among the locations featured are St Nicholas Kirk and Kirkyard, the Masonic Temple, St Machar’s Cathedral, St Mary’s Chapel, Tyrebagger Stone Circle and Provost Skene’s House. Rather than concentrating solely on ghost stories, the guide places Aberdeen’s stranger traditions within its wider history, with directions, access details and National Grid References helping to identify the sites discussed.