For the Fourth episode, I wanted to touch on a strange and unusual story, that of the Green Children of Woolpit. It's a legend so old, we're unsure of when it originated, with many potential reasons and speculations about the children's origins.

If you would like to watch this episode, it can be found on Youtube: https://youtu.be/CzlLcPV6Ga8

Resources:

EXTRA: Ralph of Coggeshall's Account of the Green Children | Anomalies: the Strange & Unexplained (anomalyinfo.com)

Chronicon Anglicanum - The British Library (bl.uk)

Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum, De expugnatione Terræ Sanctæ libellus, Thomas Agnellus De morte et sepultura Henrici regis Angliæ junioris, Gesta Fulconis filii Warini, excerpta ex Otiis imperialibus Gervasius Tileburiensis. Ex codicibus manuscriptis edidit Josephus Stevenson : Stevenson, Joseph, 1806-1895 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Woolpit - Wikipedia

In medieval times the range of the wolf covered a large part of Europe (ukwct.org.uk)

The Green Children of Woolpit | The Haunted Palace (wordpress.com)

The Green Children of Woolpit. The Green-Skinned Kids Who Spoke an… | by Alexander Yung | History of Yesterday

File:Babes in the Wood - 7 - illustrated by Randolph Caldecott - Project Gutenberg eText 19361.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

The Mystery of the Green Children of Woolpit | Mental Floss

The Green Children of Woolpit: A 12th century mystery that still baffles historians | MRU MEDIA (mysteriesrunsolved.com)

Green Children of Woolpit Village - Historic Mysteries

The Medieval Green Children of Woolpit — They Were Green | by Lioness Rue | Lessons from History | Aug, 2021 | Medium

The Green Children of Woolpit: A Medieval Encounter with Aliens, the Fae – or Orphans of War? - #FolkloreThursday

The Green Children of Woolpit. The Green-Skinned Kids Who Spoke an… | by Alexander Yung | History of Yesterday

The Green Children of Woolpit: the 12th century legend of visitors from another world | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net)

The Green Children of Woolpit | The Haunted Palace (wordpress.com)

Green Children of Woolpit actually existed? Here's their true story (scientificmystery.com)

Suffolk's strangest folk story - The green children of Woolpit - Suffolk Live