“She cries for those she lost…”

On moonless nights, it is said that a woman in white can be found standing on the shore in Dark Harbor, crying for her lost love, a sailor who is never going to come home. She weeps because his ship was set upon by pirates in the rough seas on a moonless night, and he went to the briny depths alongside his ship and crew. Many refuse to set sail during the New Moon, for fear that the Weeping Lady shall curse their voyage to misfortune.

Others believe that the Weeping Lady is a forlorn mother, her children having perished on some dark night when they had slipped out of their cabin. An unfortunate turn of events, while they were swimming near the docks, caused their bodies to wash ashore the next morning.

Regardless of the spirit’s origin, most people give her a wide berth, as those that approach her find that she fades from sight, and they awaken in their bed with hazy memories of what happened when they glimpse her face.