The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeenshire

The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeenshire surveys the county’s uncanny places, old stories and reported mysteries, from ancient monuments to more recent events. Stone circles and castles appear alongside sites associated with witchcraft, fairy hills, eerie sculptures and long-abandoned graveyards.

Geoff Holder also records tales of big cats and ape-men, accounts of murders and bodysnatching, and modern fire festivals including the burning of a Wickerman. The result is a geographically grounded look at Aberdeenshire’s darker traditions and stranger landmarks, linking the region’s archaeological remains and historic locations with the folklore, rumours and paranormal claims attached to them.