Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — A Strange Phenomenon. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Phenomenon.

The most singular aerial phenomenon in the world is the Fata Morgana, a sea mirage seen off the coast of Calabria and between Italy and Sicily. It presents the phantoms of cities, houses, temples, palaces, and ships, sometimes inverted, occasionally at an angle. The phenomenon has been known for many ages, and formerly occasioned great and widespread alarm, being regai ded as an evil omen that betokened some general and severe calamity.