They marched into the mists of the north—and were never seen again.
The Ninth Legion, or Legio IX Hispana, was once the pride of Rome. Hardened in the blood-soaked fields of Hispania, forged in the fire of conquest, they carved their legacy across the Empire. But it was on the savage frontier of Britain—cold, wild, and seething with rebellion—that their story took a darker turn.
By AD 117, they had vanished. No final dispatch. No battlefield account. Just silence.
Had they been slaughtered in a brutal ambush, their bodies left to rot in the heather? Were they erased in a desperate stand against the tribes of the north—or quietly swallowed by a treacherous transfer east, never to return? The records go silent, but the whispers have never stopped.
In this haunting episode, Keith delves into one of Rome’s greatest unsolved mysteries. Who were the Ninth? What did they face in the wilds of Britain? And why does their disappearance still echo like a ghost through the annals of empire?
This is not just a story of loss—it’s a shadowed tale of pride, violence, and the cost of forgotten glory. The Ninth marched north… and into legend.
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