To date, geologists, historians, paleontologists, environmental scientists, geophysicists, and researchers have all acknowledged that our planet is still home to countless strange phenomena that science has yet to explain.
Many research documents from ancient times to the present have recorded numerous bizarre events. Locations where strange and mysterious phenomena frequently occur continue to exist around the world, attracting thousands of scientists for study, yet explanations remain elusive. These strange occurrences can be found in Australia, Ireland, Peru, the mysterious lands of South America, Egypt, India, and more. Among these “unexplainable phenomena” is the story of the “ghost army” that appeared in the Loe Bar area.
The “ghost” legions remain a mystery to humanity (illustrative image)
On a midday in August 1936, Stephen Jenkins, a 60-year-old geologist, visited the Loe Bar area – a location along the Cornish coast. While Jenkins was keenly observing the landscape, he was suddenly astonished to see a medieval army appear before him.
Their uniforms indicated they were engaged in a battle. The soldiers wore tunics of various colors and cloaks without sleeves in white, red, and black. Their horses were fully equipped with saddles and adornments. One soldier stood at the front of the army, gripping a sword, and wearing a maroon cloak, glaring intently at Jenkins.
Both strange and astonishing, Jenkins, driven by curiosity and a sense of adventure, did not hesitate to approach the army. However, his action caused the entire medieval legion to vanish instantly.
Jenkins, bewildered and stunned, thought he had just experienced a dream. He recounted the incident to his wife, and they noted this strange phenomenon in their journal. Then, 38 years later, Jenkins chose the exact day he had witnessed the anomaly to return to the location he once stood with his wife.
The couple set off with a map marking the spot where Jenkins had previously stood, and strangely, this time the image of the medieval army appeared even clearer than before. Although Mrs. Jenkins had previously doubted her husband’s account, she now clearly witnessed something she found hard to believe.
The army, adorned in bright uniforms with flags, horses, and swords, spread out before her, causing her to grip her husband’s arm tightly and rub her eyes in disbelief, thinking she was dreaming.
When reporting this event to a group of scientists, Stephen Jenkins stated: “If some of you had been with us then, perhaps this account would carry more weight and be deemed more credible…”
Scientists still believe in the strange phenomenon of “ghost” armies from the Middle Ages, but they have yet to find an explanation (illustrative image)
Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. According to Stephen Jenkins’ own interpretation, the ghost army may frequently appear in the Cornish region, and those fortunate enough to see it are due to some spiritual energy emanating from a node.
Loe Bar still exists, but the site where Jenkins stood in 1936 and again in 1974 is not easily revisited to witness the aforementioned phenomenon because it depends on the environment, climate, visibility, and especially on the individual standing at that location. This may sound unreasonable at first, but according to Janet and Collin (two researchers of supernatural and ghostly phenomena), this is indeed the case.
These two researchers also documented a case of a “ghost” appearing in 1904.
In March of that year, a group of students was taken on a field trip by their teacher. They climbed the Marlpit Hill near Honiton. All the students that day saw a man wearing a brown cloak and a wide-brimmed black hat. The entire figure and face appeared shrouded in a misty haze. According to Collin’s documentation, this ghost had been recorded (library documentation) since 1685. This man was one of those who fled from the battle at Sedgemoor in 1685 and was subsequently killed by enemy forces. His home was right on Marlpit Hill.
However, the strange thing was that all the students on that field trip saw (the man from the past), while the teacher leading them saw nothing at all.
