Case file · High strangeness

Figures in white at Amiternum

In the same prodigy list of 218 BC Livy reports that in many places around Amiternum, in the Abruzzo mountains, 'shapes of men in shining white garments' were seen far off, approaching no one.

218 BCE · 42.40, 13.31 · status: legend

The sceptical view

A single line in Livy written two centuries later; no detail survives that would allow an explanation.

Sources

  1. Livy 21.62 (Latin Library)
  2. Wikipedia: Amiternum
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