05/08/2023
In 1150, two small children with green skin allegedly appeared on the outskirts of the English village of Woolpit. There, the young boy and girl were found crawling out of a pit meant for catching wolves. According to at least two historical accounts, they were clad in strange clothing, appeared to speak only gibberish, and seemed repulsed by most food. Eventually, they discovered some green beans growing outside and gobbled them up, and after they gradually started to eat the other food that the villagers offered them, they began to lose their greenish hue. Though the boy later died of a mysterious illness, the girl lived long enough to learn how to speak English — and told the villagers that she and the boy had come from a distant land called St. Martin where the sun didn't shine and the people lived in perpetual twilight.
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