The picturesque lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove hides a tragic legend. According to lore, “Peggy of the Cove” was a young woman who survived a shipwreck but later drowned on the jagged rocks, her ghostly figure still seen wandering the shoreline in a white dress. Fishermen tell of a woman appearing suddenly to warn of oncoming storms, only to vanish into the spray. Tourists have reported photographing a mysterious figure on the rocks when no one was there.