Most visitors who know anything about Bouley Bay's ghosts know about the black dog. Fewer have heard of the other two, and that is probably because they rest on much less.
The first is a tradition of lights. According to Rick Hale's article for Spooky Isles, sailors and merchants using the harbour have long talked about lights that come in with the tide on dark nights, sometimes as big balls of coloured light, sometimes as quick streaks across the water, which move towards the shore and then go out. The same article offers the folk explanation that they were fairy folk using the beach while people slept. It gives no dates and no individual witnesses.
The second is a white lady. Hale says a woman in a white gown has been reported walking the roads that lead down to the bay, and that she has appeared in front of a handful of drivers before vanishing. Again there is no named witness, no year, and no suggestion of who she might have been.
There are plenty of ordinary explanations for lights on the water off a north-coast harbour: fishing boats, the lights of the French coast, bioluminescence, and the long history of smugglers signalling to the shore at exactly this spot. The white lady is the most common ghost type in the British Isles and could have attached herself to almost any dark lane. We include both because they are part of how Bouley Bay is talked about today, but the honest tag is a single, unsourced report.
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