The Green Children of Woolpit

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Location: Woolpit, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Dates Active: 1100s
Category: Extraterrestrials, Lost Lands and Ruins, Odd People
Cause: Unknown
Status: Closed
Entry ID: 022424F-00075

Summery: 

An odd story of a pair of green siblings arriving from an unknown land in 1100s England.

In Depth:

This tale is about a pair of children, a brother and sister, who were found at the bottom of a wolf pit near the village of Woolpit (which was coincidentally named after the wolf pits the children fell in.) The children were rescued from the pit and brought back to the village, where the townsfolk marveled at the children because their skin was an unusual shade of green. The children were otherwise normal looking, but were unable to speak the local language and would only eat 'broad beans' (also known as 'fava' or 'faba' beans) when they were first encountered.

According to the legend no one ever came to claim the children, and the village took to taking care of them. Eventually they started to eat different foods, and lost their green color. However, the boy did not live past childhood, and died. The sister was baptized, learned to speak English, and eventually started talking about where they had come from.

The girl claimed that they had come from a place where there was no sun and only a faint glow in the sky like twilight, and that everything there was green like they were when they first arrived. She called the place "St. Martin's Land" but could not locate it on any map. She could not account for how she had arrived in England nor how to return, only that she and her brother had gotten lost while watching after their father's cattle when they had come across a cave. After traveling through the cave they came to fall into the wolf pit when they hear the sound of bells.

Eventually the girl grew up and took the name of Agnes, got married to a royal official named Richard Barre, and lived an otherwise normal life. Little else is known about Agnes, other than supposedly she and Barre had a single child together. However, local records about Richard Barre tell nothing about being married or having a child, with Agnes or otherwise.

Some people believe that the children, if they existed, were from another world, suggesting that they were either extraterrestrials or came from some hidden subterranean land such as 'Agartha.'

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Last Updated: March 28, 2024

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