The Curious Case of the Green Children of Woolpit

[@seannotconnery8191]

To be fair, a whimsical tale of little green forest children wandering the woodland realms sounds a lot nicer than two poor street urchins dying from iron deficiency.

[@jgw5491]

Folklore ain't what it used to be.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Perhaps but them forests were filled with wolves: hence the origin of the village name "Wolf-pit".

[@artchic528]

@@michaelgreen1515 I guess the wolves didn't want to eat the kids due to their green tinged flesh. I certainly wouldn't want to eat green meat.

[@lindseyshupee]

Yea

[@michaelgreen1515]

Mome Gnome I spent most of my life a few miles from Woolpit, travelling through it nearly every week at least once. I even had my first proper job there. It's a nice place. Yes it is Woolpit now, but the derivation of the name is from Wolf pit. Given the green and pleasant countryside hard to imagine that wolves once roamed that area. Some people are even campaigning to reintroduce them to the UK.

[@tabcat]

It's not easy being green . . . because it denotes an iron deficiency.

[@Mike81139]

Or gamma rays

[@aitchpea6011]

Yet too much iron can make your poop green. Odd.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Harry Potter depending on what it's in.

[@michaelgreen1515]

As well as other stuff.

[@aitchpea6011]

@@michaelgreen1515 I had iron deficient anaemia for a time and was on iron tablets. Poop turned green, then black over the course of a few days. Now everyone's grossed out! :-D

[@whatyousaidbud]

Little green people who speak an unrecognizable language?? You sir are talking about leprechauns!!

[@shadowstrider5033]

Do you think if i shoot them with my gun, lucky charm will explode everywhere?

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

@@shadowstrider5033 A Hellsing Ultimate Abridged reference :) Shut up and take my 'like'!

[@thundersheild926]

No, not leprechauns! He's talking about Martians!

[@hamzax283]

They grew up to be Connor mcchicken .

[@michaelgreen1515]

Wrong country.

[@mumpierre-freytes7086]

This tale is similar to the green children of Barcelona, Spain. They were found in a cave, the boy died a few days later. The girl was taken care of in a convent. She used to sit for hours staring at the sun. When asked how did they ended up in the cave, she said "the wind brought us here". I think it's the same story being told a little different.

[@madnessbydesign1415]

In my high school there was a girl who had a green tint to her skin. She said she was allergic to sun light. Now I know she was really from Woolpit... :)

[@GeneralNickles]

I had a teacher that was allergic to sunlight. Her skin had an orange-ish yellow tint.

[@madnessbydesign1415]

@@GeneralNickles I see. So the Woolpitians have some competition...? But which is fair, and which is foul? More questions than answers, I fear... :)

[@tsopmocful1958]

So her green skin obviously wasn't for photosynthesis.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Oh wow.... this could really explain my distaste for bright light, and I am serious. It's also a good possible medical explanation for the phenomenon.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Madness by Design being old English Woolpit had both foul and a fair (it was alleged to be a rather roudy one).

[@morgansparhawk8410]

Maybe they were from Greenland. I'll see myself out... 😁

[@bladekyle2010]

hahaha!!!

[@debbiesuesteele9639]

That was actually pretty funny.... 😊😃😄🤗🤓🍹🍥☀

[@tensfruit4880]

That joke was tasteful, it’s okay

[@TheToadFan95]

actually they were from England

[@punkwrestle]

EdenDaBoi that explains their inability to speak English!

[@charliemason4355]

"...Only spoke their village's unique dialect. Some of which were unintelligible to outsiders." Describes present day England as well.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Sadly not with influence from London and Hollywood. :(

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

And she sat on a turtle!

[@stoverboo]

But, surely Sir Richard or someone in his employ would have traveled at least as far as the next village, and would have recognized where that dialect came from.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@stoverboo - In our day and age, two miles is nothing. We hop in the car and go (or use some other vehicle, or even a bicycle). Back then, people walked, rode horses or donkeys, or in horse-drawn vehicles. Two miles is far enough to make casual travel unlikely. Unless Sir Richard had a lot of business in that particular village, he wouldn't have gone there. And then there are the differences in language between the upper classes and the lower classes, which would have been more pronounced in the 12th Century. The educated upper classes would have larger vocabularies and pronounce their words differently from those of the lower classes. If he did go, he likely talked to other upper class people, not the farmhands and laborers.

[@MohammedAli-hl4mr]

its a shame that barely any genuine English dialects exist anymore despite how numerous they once were.

[@socks6881]

whenever this story pops up i'm surprised that no one ever mentions that these children could have been abused. with the things stated in this video, and disregarding otherworldly origins (as they are.. unlikely), it's possible that these kids weren't allowed out of their homes, their village might have not even know of their existence, likely either keep in their home or in the mines mentioned in the video, only being allowed outside during sunset to tend to the cows.. maybe the parents didn't let them out due to their illness, fearing superstitious retaliation from others against their children. i think there's a possibility of something along these lines happening.

[@AngieF8]

But they got lost while herding cattle, so they weren't locked up

[@johanvajse8410]

I am not a farmer, but do they tend to cows during sunset? you always hear about farmers being early raisers to get to their chores

[@julietfischer5056]

@@AngieF8 - They might not have been pasturing their cows on the commons. If the family lived some distance from town, they could have kept their green children secret out of fear or shame yet still allowed the kids to do things such as watch over a few cows (British farms don't have vast herds of cattle). The kids got lost or ran off and found their way to Woolpit.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@johanvajse8410 - Farm work is only done during the day, which is why farmers get up early enough to utilize every bit of sunlight they can. Before modern agricultural machinery, that meant hard work every day except Sunday and religious holidays (or other special occasions). Livestock were let out to graze in the morning and brought in at night. Everything was buttoned up to keep out wolves, foxes, and thieves, the family ate supper, then they all went to bed.

[@romella_karmey]

@Dank Dank Go play your Roblox kid

[@seamusmcgoldrick9500]

If they were twins it could have been a twin dialect that they stuck to out of fear.

[@dutchik5107]

Or just siblings. And the language ability got lost over time

[@IGotBoergs]

And maybe just maybe their origin is truly from another dimension, one can only dream

[@gartengeflugel924]

He specifically said the girl was older and I'm pretty sure he didn't talk about minutes

[@michaelgreen1515]

Geflügel HNZ The girl was supposed to be a few years younger and not as shy.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Dutchik Many poorer people were not understood by the rich and vice versa, and like today many immigrants hadn't the privilege of integration.

[@nazmunnahar1163]

UK: "We have the green children of Woolpit." USA: "We have the blue people of Kentucky." *Marvel: We have both.*

[@roja7426]

Lol

[@wendygold8527]

Pretty soon blue and green will be different races lol.

[@tabblu6289]

Blue people...True..... they were from....France (true story)

[@OneWhoDreamsAwake]

In my hometown in Kentucky we have what’s called the Kelly Green men. So Kentucky has green and blue people apparently Lol

[@35PHaaton]

Well.....there was a real life blue man. Paul Karason.

[@ericp9479]

I knew the rudiments of this story, but this is the best explanation I’ve heard. Thank you!

[@mattlumley7224]

WOW!! That's crazy, I live 5mins from Bury St Edmunds and never knew that!! Simon keep bringing these videos out TOP MAN

[@marydevling8390]

This is the most sensible explanation I have heard concerning this old tale. Thanks!

[@maud3444]

Being Flemish and an historian having studied medieval Dutch/Flemish I can already tell you that if those children were flemish the local Woolpit people wouldn't have called it a "strange language' because many words are the same in both English and flemish (water, gras, bed, wolf, etc) and medieval English and medieval Flemish even had way more words in common. They'd figure it out pretty fast if it was Dutch or German. edit: as somewhat stated in the video I now hear :)

[@thereddragon368]

Since this story takes place in the early 1100s maybe they were slaves, i know that quite a bit of the population in england in the 1080s were slaves, so maybe the children were children from other countries the danes raided and enslaved, so the children could actually be from a lot of places, Normandy, Ireland, Scotland, The Baltics, buy i dont know, just an idea.

[@whenfishesflew]

I lived in NL 3 years and love the connection between English & Dutch … it’s fascinating. So much is hidden in language, it’s like a magic key 🔑

[@logat1847]

@@whenfishesflew do you know about the Oera Linda Book?

[@LGrian]

@@thereddragon368this is an interesting idea which would explain why they didn’t try to get back to their parents. What if they were enslaved as toddlers and were originally from somewhere within the article circle and their last (or only) memory there was of a land that saw virtually no sun some days of the year?

[@MattMcIrvin]

This was one of the great paranormal-weirdness stories of my childhood, played up in bathroom-reading compendia like "The Book of Lists" and "The People's Almanac' (what we had before the Internet).

[@Moonbeam143]

Thanks you for the video. I've heard the story before from other ones, but they always talk about it as if it's some weird mystery that nobody never solved or knows about. It's always nice to get a real answer to things like this.

[@kingfuzzy2]

Yes ambiguous answers are the worst.

[@michaelgreen1515]

We were taught it in school, not sure if it was history or a public health warning.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

No one knows the real answer. It's from hundreds of years ago, there's no way to even know if it happened at all. Could be an elaborate hoax.

[@marhawkman303]

@@A_Black_Sheep94 well when you carefully study the accounts from the same time period, the story isn't all that weird. Two children who weren't able to clearly explain where they came from showed up in Woolpit and had some illness that discolored their skin green... ish, not even fully green, just a tinge. Then when given unfamiliar food by people they couldn't understand, they refused to eat it. It's not that strange... except how people choose to interpret it as supernatural or extradimensional

[@MrShannonite]

I've been to Fornham St. Martin several times, being a local lad, and I can safely say it is rather gloomy at the best of times, lol

[@celathianaaron6057]

_i’m blue da ba dee da ba dye_

[@junkmalme]

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos: It was aliens. Simon: It was not aliens

[@dougbennett8592]

I'm not saying they were aliens, but they're aliens!

[@michaelgreen1515]

Oddly enough anyone from outside East Anglia is known as a foreigner in the Suffolk dialect.

[@Yasmin-ff3mt]

😂😂😂😂

[@geofff.3343]

Of course Simon would say that. He's a lizard-person from Niru

[@h34dhun7er]

@@geofff.3343 And who better to identify other beings as being aliens or not. It takes one to know one 😂😂😂

[@debbiehenri7170]

I've heard that if you eat enough nettles you turn green (happened to Milarepa, the Tibetan saint who lived on such a diet in the Himalayas).

[@pleaseclap3335]

"The land of no sun" doesn't that exactly describe England though since it's always cloudy/overcast and raining over there

[@michaelgreen1515]

Please Clap :) I extend a warm if unpredictable welcome to Suffolk the driest part of the UK.

[@pleaseclap3335]

@@michaelgreen1515 I would absolutely love to visit the UK one day! The driest parts, the wet parts, doesn't matter really. :)

[@Delicious_J]

It's not raining constantly, it's just overcast most of the time.

[@dnr2089]

During the COVID 19 lockdown of 2020 we have had the driest, sunniest, hottest weeks since forever!

[@ItsAsparageese]

Didn't the 1100s have that period of extra darkness anyway? From ash or something? I could be off, sometime in the 1000s or the 1100s or so there was that "worst year to be alive" that historians have discussed and there were blackouts and famines and such EDIT: I'm completely wrong, that was 535, disregard previous telegram, and remember kids, human memories suck

[@JosephFuller]

'Ancient astronaut theorists say, "No."' It is likely that these children have appeared on the History Channel before as *_proof_* that aliens have visited Earth in the past. It would be funny to see their reaction to this logical explanation of the event.

[@jamescarter3196]

So you use your imagination to try counteracting other people’s imaginations, and you think there’s something smart about that? When you use lies to try ‘proving a point’, you’re just like the people you claim to be against. Your lies aren’t better than the worst bullshitter on Ancient Aliens, you’re just another liar.

[@Gloomdrake]

Who cares if Ancient Aliens is right or wrong? Good stories are good stories.

[@TheRealE.B.]

@@Gloomdrake What a person considers a "good story" tends to differ with their age and level of intelligence. Remember, there are actually people who can not only watch reality TV without vomiting but even enjoy the stagnant non-stories about dysfunctional people, thinly veiled by lazy editing and clumsily-manufactured tension.

[@Gloomdrake]

leadfoot9x Of course

[@daneclark3161]

@@jamescarter3196 - Ooh... We found us an ancient astronaut nutcase!

[@nickgehr6916]

*When hulk traveled back in time and did an oopsie*

[@CosmicFisherman]

Zenn Lozanno nasty in the pasty

[@Mr.PepeSilvia]

Hulk just lost 100K subscribers

[@dustinnoyfba7227]

that got a lol from me... good job! heres a cookie: 🍪

[@quintenwhyte6660]

Hulk...Smash in time!

[@andrzejconner676]

Nephihulks

[@timfrey2358]

the story is just as sad if you do believe the other dimension thing. People think "hey traveling to other dimensions sounds fun", but imagine being small children and getting lost, and winding up in not just a strange neighborhood or city but entirely new dimension, there is no way back, no just turning around and retracing your steps, adults help you but they'll never get home again, and on top of it your sibling dies because you weren't able to find familiar food in this different world, and you have to just get used to this place and forget about ever seeing your family again. It sounds like a living nightmare to me, people think it sounds mystical and fun, but if it actually happened your life would be ruined.

[@PerkerSonTheLivelySon]

😢

[@Harley_Girl68]

@@timfrey2358 Children mostly adapt better than adults. Someone in their 20’s, 30’s or older it would be much worse. Especially if they left children behind.

[@unvergebeneid]

Haha, nice try by that German doctor! "I'm afraid your daughter suffers from what is called the 'disease of virgins.'" "Oh my God! Whatever can we do?!" "Well... I could offer to treat her right away..."

[@MoiraMcGill]

Lol ~ pretty much the reason for those conclusions 🤣 like hysteria and assisted masturbation, hahahaha

[@sherisheepsworth8432]

"I think my son also-" "No he isn't."

[@misssluttypants84]

@@sherisheepsworth8432 GIVE ME YOUR PHONE RIGHT NOW LMAO

[@kamomile_tea]

What a brave man he is! Probably saved a whole town from that disease!

[@Nikki-lodeon]

Sad, but unfortunately also true.

[@thomasturner6980]

Don't worry they were just Shrek's children

[@900bz]

I didnt finish watching the video yet smh thanks for the spoiler

[@razalasreficul6902]

@Shawnaldo75 that's another possibility!

[@Tsukuyomi28]

Shrek is Scottish maybe they just spoke Gaelic lol

[@michaelgreen1515]

I wonder what Dutch ogres are like?

[@shaanali6965]

Michael Green Literally read my mind like it’s nothing WoW

[@ozvikings]

Excellent narration!!! Loved this video. You have a gift of telling a great story!!

[@harryws3542]

Suffolk represent! I work in Bury St Edmunds and drive by Woolpit every day - nice to see some Suffolk folklore on such a prestigious channel!

[@michaelgreen1515]

Harry WS I remember the days when you had to drive through it!

[@FPV-wi8fw]

*why* is Gamora?

[@Funckle73]

F27 FPV awesome!!!!

[@amypattie7004]

I think that’s won the internet

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

When's Gamora? no, wait...

[@AbsoluteMiniacGena]

Fascinating! I’m addicted to these vids. I keep seeing another and another and thinking “I’ll just watch one more” 😆 that started 2 hours ago!

[@ceciliaspears161]

You're juggling SO MANY CHANNELS! As much as I enjoy your work, be sure to take care of yourself.

[@jamescarter3196]

So I’m not the only one who thought he seemed like he needed more sleep or something? Maybe it was a day of many shoots.

[@exlibrisas]

He is just a presenter and responsible for production. There are more people behind the scenes.

[@LadyWhinesalot]

@@exlibrisas yes, but these videos are not done all in one take, nor are they done in ten minutes...they take a LOT of time

[@eansba88-]

Beautiful thing about these types of videos, they arnt really topical so there's not a time crunch to get a certain Video out by a certain time. So, he could knock out 10 videos in a day and space them out one a day for a week and a half. Do that a couple days a week and you've got plenty of free time. Maybe Simon was out late partying, couldn't you see him at a rave? Perhaps in some sort of mesh shirt...

[@LadyWhinesalot]

@@eansba88- "10 videos in a day"? I hope you're exaggerating!

[@HPFangirl71]

The Iron Deficiency is a great theory!! When my oldest daughter was a baby, we fed her too many orange vegetables & it made her skin the same color!! She just really loved carrots & sweet potatoes so we fed them to her as much as possible!! It was actually kind of funny!!

[@LeanAndMean44]

You don’t feed babies anything other than breast milk. Not funny giving an infant iron deficiency.

[@renatacantore-gross8842]

Dear Simon, thank you for solving this mystery.

[@NathanielHarari]

I'm surprised that there isn't a contemporary treatise on the matter with the short and apt name of "A Treatise and Compleate Hystorie of the Greene Chyldryn of Woolpyt, Concerning Their Greene Colour & Straynge Tongue, Their Eatinge Habyts & Descryp'n of Farre-off Playces, Whereupon The Boy Dies But The Gyrrl Learns Our Bless'd Tongue Afterre Eatyngge Manie Other Foods Starting With Beans (Like Jack) and Growes Uppe To Becomme A Ladye of a Householde."

[@calichef1962]

Ah, yes. The days before there was consensus on spelling. Some, if not most, Old English words are completely unrecognizable to today's English speakers.

[@NathanielHarari]

@@calichef1962 One of my favorite quotes in the entire world is from "The Discoverers" by Daniel J. Boorstin. In it, he recounts a medieval snippet about the differences of language in England. It is written like this: "And one of theym named Sheffelde, a mercer, cam in-to an hows and axed for mete; and specyally he axyed after eggys; and the good wyf answerde that she coude speke no frenshe. And the merchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no frenshe, but wolde haue hadde "egges" and she vunderstode hym not. And theene at last another sayd that he wolde haue "eyren" and the good wyf sayd that she vnderstod him well. Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, "egges" or "eyren"? The Discoverers, P. 522

[@bryanl1984]

@@NathanielHarari Wait, is that seriously a miedevel grammar and spelling Nazi, with terrible grammar, spelling and consistancy complaining about _someone else's_ terrible grammar. spelling and inconsistency?

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

@@NathanielHarari I'm at a loss as to what "egges" or "eyren" are supposed to be...

[@NathanielHarari]

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Eggs. :D

[@MoiraMcGill]

One thing, if their diet readily consisted oc beans then they shouldn't have lacked so much iron. Beans are generally quite high in iron (I'm anaemic myself so I know which foods are higher in iron). Just pointing that out ~

[@acimantle1179]

Here is one crazy video talking about the things a bald man goes through and all societal dissection. Watch it it's amazing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e32YlKF9l69kmsU

[@marhawkman303]

I've pondered this a lot and... it doesn't actually say what their diet was. beans were the only food they were willing to eat at first, but fresh out of the pod beans couldn't possibly have been the only food they ate since it's a seasonal crop only available for a few months out of the year. Which raises the question of what they DID eat.. and we don't really know. But the story suggests they were poor peasants.

[@whenfishesflew]

I’m pretty sure you need vitamin C to absorb iron ?

[@leaguemastergg3647]

I have heard about this story before, and it was really cool hearing about the possible back story

[@765respect]

My son was born nr Bury. Can't wait to share this with him, we love stories of where we came from.

[@jasonbrennan9918]

Has it been considered that they may have been involved in manufacturing dye? I've heard of other textile workers having their skin stained by dyes...

[@GeneralNickles]

In the 12th century? Doubtful. And that also wouldn't explain the story about being from a place with very little sunlight.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Dyes were available but it wasn't done in that area.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Dyes had been around since the BC times, it's not a more recent phenomenon...

[@dnr2089]

lesterBonz Most of Britain was thickly forested in those days, so a lot more people would have been green if we go by that theory...🤔

[@stoverboo]

If they were very poor, they might have been green because they lived solely on nettles, like the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa.

[@GeneralNickles]

There is a town in Iceland that gets little to no sunlight year round, because it's deep in the middle of a round canyon surrounded by mountains that block the sun from all angles. They even had to install a giant mirror on one of the mountains to direct sunlight to the center of town. Perhaps some tiny village in some similar area in England is where these kids came from? Maybe there was no way into the canyon aside from whatever underground passage they got lost in that led them to the outside world. A bit like the place where repunzal's tower is.

[@lightweight1974]

When I was in school... early '70s...one of my classmates had green teeth. I later found out it was due to his mother taking tetracycline antibiotic (I believe) while pregnant with him. It was his permanent teeth and he took a lot of teasing over it. I don't know what ever happened to him.

[@SassSafras]

My nephew was born with all rotten baby teeth and then when his adult teeth came in they were rotten as well. My sister also took tetracycline when pregnant for severe infection. He was teased all through school. Now he has an awesome job, beautiful family, and beautiful albeit plastic teeth.

[@SlightlyDisturbed123]

Either he embraced his inner wierdo and is living his best life, or he doesn't smile anymore. I hope it's the first.

[@TheCoralie87]

@@SassSafras Good to hear he's doing better now!

[@BlyssSarania]

Love your content Simon! Keep doing what you are doing!

[@BLADESTER128]

"WHY IS GAMORA"? This is why

[@actontreadway1168]

People need to start exploring those woods for underground civilizations.

[@marhawkman303]

pretty sure they HAVE. I mean the number of KNOWN under ground structures is, quite impressive from what I've heard.

[@goddamnit7230]

Was I the only one? I mistook the image of the arms and legs as two sets of legs since we were talking about two children. Eventually figured it out when it noticed some of those toes appeared much longer than the others.

[@flytrapjohn]

Me too.

[@plainbagel4411]

oh

[@anniel6479]

I did too.

[@kamomile_tea]

Oooh yeah I thought to myself "those are some weird feet". Didn't even notice it was two hands until you pointed it out.

[@trippycatt161]

how do you narrate so many channels!? Your dedication to your work is astounding!

[@nellfischer]

It kinda sounds like these kids were maybe abducted from their homes and held captive somewhere and where there for a long time when growing up they had no one to talk to but each other so they developed a language between each other. Their poor health probably came from the person who took them didn’t properly care for them causing them to get sick.

[@pegjames188]

Whilst I was in A+E for an injury 2 kids where covered in green gloss ,they were siblings who decided to paint each other . They made a story in the local paper.

[@meaganballou6103]

Just wanted to say that petrified bodies of copper miners where found with a green color for 10s (la and possibly 100s) of thousands of years ago and maybe these green children were just a member of a group of people who commonly consumed copper through breathing it in or even ingesting it in some way. Just a curious thought.

[@TheSoitenly]

I love all that it contained. Keep doing what you're doing!

[@theemarydee1610]

While visiting Ireland, I was told a story that during famine children often ate grass thus explaining children having green skin.

[@wendygold8527]

I ate grass I just threw up lol.

[@taylortanner37]

@@wendygold8527 thank you. It went from very serious in this comment thread but you ended it on a note that actually had me laughing. Gotta ask though , were you a kid at least when you ate the grass? Did a dog give you the idea ? And last but not least were you aware how ahead of your time you were with the whole grass chomping thing ? Are you in fact a time traveller as well? I am done razzing you. Hope quarantine isn't making you crazy

[@jeffolsen4983]

Over the years I'd read Herbert Read's poetic short novel, The Green Child, (1935) at least a couple of times. Praised by such as Graham Greene and T. S. Eliot as worth the read, I'll not hesitate also to recommend it. I knew that the story was based on historic legend so searched some and found a little further context but not much more--until just viewing your video. Thanks!!

[@wesleymiller4563]

I've heard this story before, claiming the kids could have been from the Hollow Earth

[@julietfischer5056]

Earth isn't hollow. Just more efforts by pseudo-scientists to justify their ideas.

[@wesleymiller4563]

@@julietfischer5056 sorry but your wrong

[@julietfischer5056]

@@wesleymiller4563 - So thousands of geologists and other scientists are wrong? We're living on the outside of a Dyson Sphere and there are people inside?

[@wesleymiller4563]

@@julietfischer5056yes go read hollow planets by Jan Lamrecht

[@wesleymiller4563]

@@julietfischer5056 planets are formed around stars our earth has a star in the core not molten rock

[@hunterglass1840]

The best explanation of the case I've heard.

[@chloe_raines3036]

Him:don’t talk to green children Baby yoga:am I a joke to you ?

[@elfpimp1]

In the ever immortal words of a particular trailer park Jedi: "Them's ain't the lizard folk what you been lookin' fer"

[@tapewormrage]

Why is Michael from VSauce speaking British?

[@bwktlcn]

ICU nurse here. I have had several patients that have come in green...and I don’t mean a tinge, I mean like a Martian green. To the point I wondered if someone was playing a gag on me, because the first time I saw it, I thought it was paint. The patients in question had either a gallstone blocking the bile duct, or a tumor in the liver doing the same thing. This wasn’t your normal liver failure / liver cancer jaundice, although the whites of their eyes were yellow, they were green. Of course, with either condition, you are going to feel sick, and untreated (or if the stone doesn’t shift on it’s own) the patient will die. The two children could have had a birth defect, liver tumor (or parasite), as they would have been very young for gallbladder issues. The patients color returned to their norm within 3-4 days post op. Just an idea.

[@stephenhill1089]

*in a deep raspy voice "Interdimentional Aliens you say?" 🤔

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Yeah, the exact opposite of Occam's Razor... occam's sledgehammer? The more assumptions needed the more correct the explanation. So "green children" become excommunicated inter-dimensional alien Catholics who were being cared for by plant beings who themselves were excommunicated inter-dimensional alien Mormons. It just makes so much sense.

[@flytrapjohn]

@@CarFreeSegnitz yep, you hit the nail on the head there.

[@blackriverbailey]

I love all of the videos on your channels!!💜

[@hanoh2904]

When i was able to eat soft foods my mother was obsessed with feeding me carrots. Either boiled or canned carrot baby food to the point i myself turned a sickly orange yellow color and they had to take me to the doctor to check my liver and so on

[@scharf74]

I’ve heard of this before…. I can see the same thing happening to people who Eat a lot of green vegetables…. I don’t think that was the case with these 2 though…

[@verticalisland]

If you eat lots of carrots, you turn orange.

[@paganphil100]

Shawn Lecrone: Trump !!

[@mirandarae8722]

Soooo, I think about this a lot 🤦🏽‍♀️ But last night I had a dream about my hubby and I chatting about it and he mentioned (yes, in the dream) that the way they explained their land closely resembles his colorblind-ness. So this morning I looked up if it is possible for a head trauma to cure colour blindness, and while there are no clinical studies there are examples of this being reported. Coupled with the fact that they "Entered a cave", I deduce they fell and hit their heads and when they woke they had head trauma which also explains why the boy died later. If they worked on a farm and moved cattle for their family it's likely they were poor which explains why they were green. It's also possible the family was voluntarily secluded and had developed their own language (think Nell). I dunno, it just feels right. Obviously we will never know.

[@draketungsten74]

Someone thought they were phlegmish because they were green.

[@michaelgreen1515]

Good wit!

[@timfrey2358]

nice one XD

[@ErykaSoleil]

Drake Tungsten : 😂😂👏👏👏

[@debbiesuesteele9639]

Ta-da dah... Rim shot! Take my wife, please!

[@cw4608]

Drake Tungsten I will forevermore think phlegmish instead of Flemish. Well done sir, well done! :)

[@mouldysushi]

“The green tint could have been caused by a type of anemia” all I’m hearing is if I had left my anemia untreated I could have looked like Poison Ivy 👀 Probably wouldn’t have been as fun as I’m allergic to grass, trees & pollen.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Probably not.

[@mouldysushi]

Heru Jr. of Kemet Natural in regards to what? Lol

[@murder4055]

Its odd how that story was on my mind for the last few weeks, and bam! There's Simon with the info. Much appreciated.

[@artchic528]

I sense that there a guy with wild brown hair shouting "ALIENS!! THEY'RE ALIENS!!!!" somewhere right now.

[@littleblackcat2273]

No, it's green hair...

[@artchic528]

@@littleblackcat2273 r/woosh

[@ahazyday4268]

Hey man 😂😂

[@emmetcameron1026]

The story was also used as a religious allegory/propaganda, which doesn't necessarily mean it never happened, but does suggest some of the details may have been fudged somewhere along the line specifically to fit better into the "converted heathen" narrative.

[@dogfish3373]

I could swear you guys did a video on them already, but I am obviously confused. Isn't getting older great.

[@heavyhanded1782]

dogfish it was probably a different channel. Each channel tends to do their own takes on the stories... I’ve brought it up before and they claim it’s entirely unrelated but I have my doubts. To many times different channels he hosts come out with strikingly similar content.

[@heavyhanded1782]

I should say I don’t remember them telling this story on a different channel but I also haven’t been watching nearly as much of their content as I used to watch so it’s entirely possible.

[@dogfish3373]

@@heavyhanded1782 Yeah I definitely just got them mixed up with a different channel.

[@kingfuzzy2]

Yes they did maybe? now I know how much I appreciate the diff channels having separate viewpoints on the same subject. Even if it wasn't this subject.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Nope. :-) You may have read it on our website already, or perhaps just saw another channel cover it somewhere.

[@ZomBeeNature]

I have seen a few people who looked relatively green compared to normal. And they soon lost their greenish color. Nothing too out of the ordinary.

[@ruthmeow4262]

So I can't remember, have you done one on the blue people of Kentucky?

[@jonnyenough1531]

Someone has, not sure if it was him or not

[@michaelgreen1515]

Love to hear this :)

[@superfly9291]

You would be great at presenting conspiracy theories and mysterious folk tales. Both for how you build up the story and then calmly present the rational explanations. Thanks TIFO team! :D

[@paul3003mathew]

Santa Clause is an Alien! He illegally invades multiple national boundaries on his flying machine

[@Stacey_-bf2mb]

The fact that it’s all true is even more fascinating. I really hope their people lived in those mine shafts

[@lordgarion514]

Most beans are actually a pretty good source of iron.

[@gizmonomono]

I was hoping I'd come across a channel like this. Very interesting content

[@khilorn]

Oh I heard of this on Mysteries at the Museum.

[@doggoswoofwoof]

Same!

[@AdZS848]

Interesting as ever! Thank you!!

[@robertdensel1626]

Read about the "blue people of kentucky", they had a genetic disease which made their skin blue.

[@manmaje3596]

That was due to generations of inbreeding.

[@amandakelley1665]

Man Maje it’s actually a genetic disease. With 1 parent having this disease a baby can be bluish when born but it will fade. Both parents have to have it for to be severe. But yes, super close and probably multiple generations of inbreeding causes many to have this genetic disease.

[@K1llj0yc137]

I was pretty happy when I searched about these kids and Simon came up 1st

[@mpforste]

Simon, did you mean Stephen 1135-1154 and Henry 1154 - 1218 - you said 1118

[@LibbyLibster]

Yes there was an error. Henry reigned 1154 to 1189

[@christelheadington1136]

For a change he didn't mangle any names, give the guys some slack.

[@aubsaurusrex]

That and the fact that this was literally the least important part of the video.

[@LibbyLibster]

@@aubsaurusrex Answered for Theresa's benefit, no offense meant.

[@chrismoltisanti7432]

Theresa Forster he’s already fucking up 25 seconds into the video smh

[@riggs20]

How fascinating! I've never heard this story before. It's kind of bittersweet that well never know the true details!

[@Tishers]

It was tragic when Ukred and Frdez disappeared during our visit to your planet. We were late to the festival of Kwera and couldn't stay to look for them.

[@keithstrader8248]

I usually scoff at time travel claims, but this 1 is quite a head scratcher. A land of perpetual twilight, sounds like all our probable American not so distant future.

[@Throllos]

I was actually born with a greenish skin, after being exposed to a sunlight my skin became more human-like color, though to this day my skin is weird (I am naturally really pale, my skin is easily burnt by sun and you can see veins way better than normally - nurses love it when they give me a shot)

[@frederickkriesel2724]

So you are a ginger.

[@Throllos]

@@frederickkriesel2724 nope my hair color is "dirty blonde"

[@GeneralNickles]

I have a visible vein that you can trace from my left elbow all the way to my right wrist. It's the craziest thing.

[@michaelgreen1515]

I have an aversion to light, cover my skin, have turquoise eyes, but really bad veins. I hope none of this is related to my family living just a few miles away (about 4) from Woolpit!

[@michaelgreen1515]

Having grown up a mere 4 miles from Woolpit, and later working there in a former quarry I know plenty about the area and the story. Well done Simon for only mangling 2 words, which is better than most UK citizens. The explanation is very probable. As for the language Fleming wasn't used as the language of trade: the upper classes familiar with French, the lower with earlier English. I now work with migrants and it is common for their native tongue to be used at home, now meaning the children are excellent interpreters because of their schooling. Without such comprehensive education Flemish children would likely only grasp the local language later. Also being foreign might also account for their initial distaste for the food their were served. Woolpit is not only famous for it's Green children, but also it's White bricks. Although my name is Green, the name doesn't come from any of my Suffolk ancestors.

[@treycott3]

Hey simon what would we find if Antarctica was unfrozen would there be fossils from pangea? Long buried viruses? Or even a rare chance to discover civilization is older than we think? Whats the best research thats been done on this topic. Ps thanks for all tje hard work and always keeping me entertained at work 😁

[@owenhatcher5197]

If Antarctica melts there will be the ocean

[@treycott3]

Antarctica has land underneath it unlike the noth arctic

[@dustinayers761]

Thank you always been curious about that tale. And the truth behind it

[@tobiasfunke3357]

Let's just go with interdimensional aliens. Thx

[@aheadfulloftales3356]

I thank you as a story teller this information is interesting

[@jonathanriley7537]

I always thought it curious that if all they knew to eat were beans, then what were they doing with cows

[@fainitesbarley2245]

Somebody else’s cows?

[@michaelgreen1515]

Milking?

[@bugeyedmonster2]

The cattle might have belonged to someone else, or was 'used' to pay the rent. During the potato famine in Ireland, the peasants were still growing wheat, oats, and other grains, but they were similar to share croppers and those other grains paid their rent. I read half of a history book about the ramifications of that famine. (Only half because it was damned depressing.) The tenants grew the grains for the landlords and ate potatoes. But with the famine, the tenants died of starvation, or got kicked off the land. The landlords couldn't pay their bills. And the younger Irish were angry to see food being shipped to England, while their families were starving and being kicked off the land they'd been farming.

[@maddyg3208]

They heard that Jack of the beanstalk fame sold his cow for some beans and wanted to do the same ... ? 🤔

[@scharf74]

That’s all that they ate from what they were given. Who knows what they are on their planet.

[@derchozenvun83]

Perhaps an affinity with The Rifts allow for sustained structured societies beneath the earth. It's also possible that life could adapt to other forms of radiation to make up for a lack of exposure to sunlight. However, unless bioluminescence was prevalent, the absolute darkness of the children's environment that they had apparently grown to would lead one to believe that exposure to the sun would have inevitability blinded them.

[@MizBryteEyez]

I have listened to other stories of the green children. It was nice to see yet another perspective. (Their home was probably Orgrimmar, the capital city of the orcs. It can be found at the northern edge of Durotar, on the isle of Kalimdor. This imposing city was once home to the troll Warchief, Vol'jin. #MysteryOfGreenChildrenSolved

[@diyeana]

I thought I heard them say, "For the Horde!"

[@TheFakeyCakeMaker]

That was really interesting to watch. Poor kids and poor parents too!

[@jacklemm1518]

This reminds me of Jennifer and June Gibbon or the “silent twins”. Both siblings spoke in a language only they could understand. One of siblings died. Jennifer Gibbon and the green skinned boy both died. Which caused the other sibling to live a normal life.

[@EricGarber]

Very interesting! Thank you!

[@Netasuke]

I love this story. Why can't they be just aliens or something? Why does everything have to be explained away Simon? What is the orgin of the phrase "apple of your eye"?

[@andrzejconner676]

That could be his 14th channel, "Simon ruins everything"

[@michaelgreen1515]

I would like to know! It's in English and German, but not the semitic languages, or median.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

The channel Amazing Top 10 just now covered this topic! 😁 Great video as always, Simon.

[@BurgerurgerFPV]

His beard looks green😮

[@rosemariecooksey4524]

Haha

[@przemysawzanko6700]

Very interesting, thank you.

[@DoctorX17]

I bet they were from the same planet as Gamora

[@clarkie5]

I didn't know Gamora was green until after the movie was over. *colorblind.

[@aitchpea6011]

@@clarkie5 Here's a heads up for you then. Her sister is blue and their dad is kinda purple. Everyone else is mostly people coloured, except Hulk, but I assume you already know he's green. Interestingly, the artist who did the paintings for the Heroes TV show, Tim Sale, is also colour blind. He would ink the pictures and someone else would colour them.

[@michaelgreen1515]

There is a colour-blind painter who does much official military history in London. All the pots are numbered and he paints by numbers after the initial help of his wife.

[@mtaylor7171]

I LOVE your pronunciation of Bury St Edmunds, my home town. Nb your picture which you used to illustrate a church with frequently rung bells is Moyse's Hall, not a church.