The fog was thick that night.

The kind that swallows sound and turns the city below into a shimmering sea of lights.

A security guard patrolling the Hollywood sign saw movement near the base of the H.

A woman in a long dress, blonde hair, bare feet.

She was standing perfectly still, staring out over Los Angeles

as if she were waiting for someone. He called out to her. She turned and vanished.

When he reached a spot where she'd been standing, he found only footprints leading toward the

edge, and none coming back.

The next morning, hikers reported the same thing, a woman in 1930s clothing wandering the trail,

asking for directions, before disappearing into the fog. Her name, they say, is Peg Entwistle, and her story is one of the

most tragic and most enduring legends in Hollywood history.

Welcome to the Welcome back, everyone to 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries podcast, and our number two, Callie Legend story, Peg Gantwistle, and the Ghost of the Hollywood Sign. Before she became a ghost story, Peg Gantwistle and the Ghost of the Hollywood Sign.

Before she became a ghost story, Peg Entwistle was a real woman with real dreams.

Born in Wales in 1908, she came to America as a child.

Her father, an actor, died in a hit-and-run accident in New York when Pegg was just a teenager. She was taken in by

relatives and thrown into the world of theater, a world she embraced with everything she had.

By the early 1930s, Pegg was a rising Broadway actress. She performed alongside a young Betty

Davis, who later said, I wanted to be like Peg. She was beautiful and talented and full of life.

Pegg moved to Los Angeles in 1932, chasing the dream so many others chased,

the dream of seeing her name in lights. And she got a role in a film called Thirteen Women, starring

Myrna Loy. But the studio cut most of her scenes. Her contract wasn't renewed. Her marriage

had failed. Her savings were gone. And Hollywood, as it often does, moved on without her.

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