Police have been forced to chase so-called ghost hunters and attend 'hauntings' amid nuisance paranormal complaints.
They have been contacted multiple times with requests to deal with paranormal investigators intruding on property and to calls from frightened people convinced they were being haunted.
In Glasgow officers responded to a silent 999 alarm at an abandoned hotel, only to discover it was a woman claiming to be investigating paranormal activity, the Scottish Daily Express reports.
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On another spooked called told cops they were seeing "black creatures coming out of a wall" in the city.
Details of the money wasting incidents have come to light after a freedom of information request asking Police Scotland for a summery of logs involving the words 'paranormal activity'.
The file included details of distress calls from people convinced they were being haunted.
One alleged they were being haunted by the "ghost of a child" in the Highlands and Islands, while others reported 'haunted objects' and sinister happenings. Meanwhile a handful of reports came from furious callers upset at trespassing ghost-hunters target their property.
The force looked for times the words 'paranormal' and 'paranormal activity' were noted by officers writing up incident reports between January 2019 and February 2022.
It was revealed there were four such incidents in 2019, 14 in 2020 and 16 in 2022.
Among these Edinburgh cops raced to the scene after a gravesite was opened and remains disturbed by a woman carrying out paranormal investigations without consent.
Officers also attended a property that was broken into by so-called paranormal hunters streaming their spooky encounters online.
Another caller filed a report about a man posting videos of his ghost chasing exploits on YouTube.
The reports of trespassing ghost hunters comes as Scotland regularly tops the list of the most haunted countries in the world.
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