diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 0cf9a191f74..34734c7f5fa 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ Improvements
 * LUCENE-8937: Avoid agressive stemming on numbers in the FrenchMinimalStemmer.
   (Adrien Gallou via Tomoko Uchida)
 
+* LUCENE-8964: Fix geojson shape parsing on string arrays in properties 
+  (Alexander Reelsen)
+
 Bug fixes
 
 * LUCENE-8663: NRTCachingDirectory.slowFileExists may open a file while 
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/geo/SimpleGeoJSONPolygonParser.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/geo/SimpleGeoJSONPolygonParser.java
index 1e35a3db8c4..d33d11acf5f 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/geo/SimpleGeoJSONPolygonParser.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/geo/SimpleGeoJSONPolygonParser.java
@@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ class SimpleGeoJSONPolygonParser {
         o = null;
       } else if (ch == '-' || ch == '.' || (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9')) {
         o = parseNumber();
+      } else if (ch == '"') {
+        o = parseString();
       } else {
         throw newParseException("expected another array or number while parsing array, not '" + ch + "'");
       }
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/geo/TestPolygon.java b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/geo/TestPolygon.java
index 8ee62718e6d..e9bf265ffb5 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/geo/TestPolygon.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/geo/TestPolygon.java
@@ -300,4 +300,21 @@ public class TestPolygon extends LuceneTestCase {
     Exception e = expectThrows(ParseException.class, () -> Polygon.fromGeoJSON(b.toString()));
     assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("can only handle type FeatureCollection (if it has a single polygon geometry), Feature, Polygon or MutiPolygon, but got Point"));
   }
+
+  public void testPolygonPropertiesCanBeStringArrays() throws Exception {
+    StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
+    b.append("{\n");
+    b.append("  \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n");
+    b.append("  \"coordinates\": [\n");
+    b.append("    [ [100.0, 0.0], [101.0, 0.0], [101.0, 1.0],\n");
+    b.append("      [100.0, 1.0], [100.0, 0.0] ]\n");
+    b.append("  ],\n");
+    b.append("  \"properties\": {\n");
+    b.append("    \"array\": [ \"value\" ]\n");
+    b.append("  }\n");
+    b.append("}\n");
+
+    Polygon[] polygons = Polygon.fromGeoJSON(b.toString());
+    assertEquals(1, polygons.length);
+  }
 }