![]() ![]() The hand greeted the Romans, the Byzantines and a good many people throughout its long feudal history. The name undoubtedly matched the image from ancient times right up through the last few hundred years. This area still has strong ties with its Greek heritage, which is reflected in the language and customs. In the local greco-calabro or Greek-Calabrian dialect, the town’s name is Pentadattilo. Pentedattilo: penta + daktylos = five fingers. are responsible for its name that has survived to this day. Its shape has surely attracted attention of all who have passed, and the ancient Greeks, who settled the area in the 7 th-century B.C. THE FIVE FINGERS OF PENTEDATTILOīut before the characters of this unsettling story of horror came upon the scene, the jagged outcropping set amidst rugged, correspondingly disjointed hills already had a considerable history under its belt. Perhaps this ghost town just wasn’t ready to give up the ghost, of whom it is said, there are many. But this cluster of edifices clinging to a strange rock formation, finally abandoned completely in the 1960s, seems to have been biding its time. Earthquakes and precarious shifting of soil lent the final blow. ![]() Otherworldly screams? Laments from the afterlife? The bloody hand of the devil? The poor town of Pentedattilo on the edge of the Aspromonte Mountains in the southern tip of Calabria has seen it all. ![]()
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