Case file · High strangeness
The spectral army of Souther Fell
On Midsummer Eve 1745 about 26 people in Cumberland watched a long army of troops, horses and carriages march along the crest of Souther Fell, where no army could pass.
1745 CE · 54.64, -3.02 · status: account
The account
Earlier sightings were claimed for 1735 and 1737. Witnesses later signed a statement, and the story was printed in the 1780s. The 1745 vision came weeks before the Jacobite rising, which gave it extra meaning.
The sceptical view
Proposed causes include a mirage projecting real troop movements from elsewhere, or a Jacobite exercise; nothing on the fell itself was found.