While ancient stately homes, old ruins and abandoned tend to spring to mind when thinking of haunted locations, paranormal activity has been known to occur elsewhere - including on the roads. Two Yorkshire roads have been named 24/7 Vehicle Rescue's most haunted roads in the UK, alongside routes from Scotland to Greater Manchester and Northumberland. These are the spooky and gruesome tales that have earned them such a title. Images are for illustrative purposes.
5. Kent: A229 at Blue Bell Hill
The ghost of a young bride has been terrifying motorists, and baffling police, on this stretch of road between Maidstone and Chatham since 1974. The legend began when 35-year-old bricklayer Maurice Goodenough ran into Rochester Police Station claiming he'd just knocked down a young woman in her mid twenties near Blue Bell Hill, yet police and tracker dogs found no trace of any victim. Photo: Google
6. Surrey: A3 at Burpham
In December 2002 Surrey Police investigated reports of a car seen swerving off the A3 near Burpham. They eventually found a car in a ditch containing the remains of a driver, but the motorist had perished some five months previously, leading to speculation the sighting had been a ghostly re-enactment of the crash which killed him. Photo: Shutterstock
7. Northumberland: The A696 near Belsay
In August 2015, Gateshead-based radio presenters Rob Davies and Chris Felton had a run-in with a ghost dressed in RAF uniform on this remote rural road. He was seen signalling for a lift by the side of the road, but when the drivers turned around he was gone. Photo: Google
8. Scotland: The A75 ‘Kinmount Straight’
Dubbed the ‘most haunted highway in Scotland’, the A75 is apparently home to ‘screaming hags, eyeless phantoms and a menagerie of unearthly creatures’, according to local paranormal investigator Kathleen Cronie. The most famous sighting came in 1962, when a driver witnessed a chicken flying towards their windscreen before dematerialising, as well as giant cats and a furniture van that also disappeared into the ether. Photo: Google