An Ancient Portal to Another Dimension and The Mysterious Green Children of 1173

preview_player
Показать описание
The harvest had come to Woolpit, a small village in the countryside of Suffolk, England. In the dappled light of one late summer in the 12th century, reapers worked the fields near the ancient wolf-trapping pits from which the village took its name.

But on this particular day, their work halted as an extraordinary sight emerged from the shadows of one such pit: two children—skin tinged a peculiar shade of green and dressed in strange, unfamiliar clothes.

Unable to communicate in any language the villagers understood, the children seemed bewildered and lost. According to William of Newburgh, the chronicler who first recorded the tale, the harvesters, unsure of what else to do, seized the children and brought them into the village.

In a separate account by Ralph of Coggeshall, a knight by the name of Sir Richard de Calne intervened. Moved by the strange sight, he took the children to his manor, where they were treated with great care.

Both chroniclers noted that the children refused food for days, leaving their caretakers anxious. No bread, no fruit, no cooked meals could tempt them. It seemed their fate was sealed by starvation until one day, raw beans were placed before them.

The children, at first mistaking the bean stalks for the edible portion, wept when they found no food inside. Eventually, the beans were shelled, and the children devoured them eagerly.

Time passed, and the children slowly adapted. They learned the language of the people around them, and their green skin faded to the natural tones of the English countryside. But the boy, frail from the start, did not live long after being baptized.

The girl, however, grew stronger. Ralph of Coggeshall described her as sharp-witted, though possessing a wildness that some found troubling. He wrote that she was, quote, “very wanton and impudent” as she matured.

Despite this, she integrated into Sir Richard de Calne’s household and eventually married a man from the town of King’s Lynn, where she lived out her days in relative normalcy—or as normal as one might expect after such a strange beginning.

But it wasn’t the children's physical appearance that intrigued the villagers most—it was the story they eventually told. After learning English, the girl spoke of coming from a place called St. Martin’s Land, a country where the sun never fully rose.

They lived in a kind of permanent twilight, she said, in a land that shimmered green. How they arrived in Woolpit was a mystery even to them.

She recounted that they had been herding their father’s cattle when a sound like distant church bells drew them into a cave. Wandering in the darkness, they found themselves lost, until they finally stumbled into the bright light of a world they had never known. When they tried to return to the cave, they found no trace of the entrance, as though it had disappeared from the earth altogether.

The villagers were left with more questions than answers. Who were these children? Where had they come from? And perhaps most unsettling—what had they left behind?
Рекомендации по теме
Комментарии
Автор

I might be reading too many strange medieval chronicles lately... Here's a closer look at the true history behind the mysterious (and well-documented) Green Children of Woolpit.

DarkAncientMysteries
Автор

In Duncan Lunan's fascinating book: "Children From The Sky" (2012), the Author states that the condition of hypochromic anemia, or chlorosis, is a symptom of severe malnutrition which will only occur when the afflicted individual is very near death (pp. 103-104). The green coloration is a very faint, greenish skin-tone, and not the leaf green color like the original account describes. Also, Mr. Lunan states that the village of Woolpit was not so isolated that its inhabitants would have been unable to recognize someone of Flemish origin, since it was located on the pilgrim's road to the shrine of Saint Edmund, at Bury St. Edmunds, so a great variety of people would pass through Woolpit every year. The Green Girl said that her original home had been located midway between one region of perpetual bright sunlight and an opposite region of perpetual darkness. Duncan Lunan said that this environment cannot exist anywhere on Earth, but it may be found on a planet which has an orbit around its star which keeps it gravitationally locked, so that one hemisphere faces its sun perpetually, while the night side is left in perpetual darkness. So the boy & girl came from a real-life "Twilight Zone!"

austinmorris
Автор

I've been watching this channel since the first upload. This one of your best mini-docs yet, as usual though an incredibly detailed retelling. Thanks for your content dark5

enlightenedscepticuk
Автор

And yet another great episode! ( the music was fine by the way) thanks for posting and looking forward to the next!

dougeaton
Автор

You do at great job. I think you should do more for lost history. I appreciate Everything you do!!! ❤

scottbowermaster
Автор

This was even MORE intriguing than usual--which means a fair amount, in D5 context...

It's like a historical tale of shrek with a non-synth John Carpenter score.

Well done--still impressive as always. :)

ingridfong-daley
Автор

I remember Frank Edwards talked about this in of his books on the paranormal in the 1950s

Shazam-yxup
Автор

I live in Woolpit and used to live in rougham. I believe they came from the "Rougham mirage" (worth a google) less than 10 miles away. Green bricks have been found in the field when the mansion is seen. I'm just connecting the dots ....

lukecopping
Автор

Thank you D5 for doing a UK based mystery, respect from Manchester :)

stephenwise
Автор

Nice to hear your voice. Always enjoy your content.

trippie-gone
Автор

I strongly wish youd dive into the Roanoke mystery id love a video on that so much especially by you

IamSpoon
Автор

I am not against the A.I. It is when they get put "into motion" (i.e. that Zoom function) that they shimmer and the background moves and they don't.

Messes with my focus

fearanarchy
Автор

This is the first time I've heard of the Flemish theory, and it makes a TON of sense. One of the things I'm most appreciative of with this channel is that yall get into the nitty gritty details and leave no stone unturned

tayloroleson
Автор

Your pronunciation never fails to impress me! In this case, well done for leaving the 'L' out of Suffolk!

ShopFloorMonkey
Автор

I've always wondered if the children came from Hy-Brasil. I love this tale. I'm just endlessly fascinated by it.

just-a-cupcake
Автор

Nice story, but the music was to loud for me.
The music made it hard to hear you clearly.

guohuaye
Автор

I like how reasonable it is that they were sick orphans from a land which commonly migrated to that region during a civil conflict. Yet the few things that dont fit get the tin foil heads freaking out with their fan fics.

darrinlaw
Автор

Humans end up somewhere else when they vanish...unless dying of shock, they live out Life as best they can...

maxelldenomie
Автор

So I usually listen to these while getting ready for work -- so maybe I missed it...when was the over the top AI that so many people are upset about? The only place that bothered me was the houses on fire shots, but I thought that was less AI and more of the looping of frames

corinnekoladay
Автор

Narration is excellent, research is excellent...thank you

pjr