Still, there was something strange in the data I’d reviewed: the early nineteenth century saw a spike in Li Galli shipwrecks, one after the other through the 1820s and 1830s. Nearby villagers couldn’t explain the uptick in incidents, though some speculated a sinkhole had altered the topography around the islets. The phenomenon had been dubbed the Amalfi Curse and, for more than eighty years, mariners avoided Li Galli altogether.
