In the 12th century, in the English village of Woolpit, two green children, a boy and a girl, were found near wolf pits. They spoke an unknown language, only ate raw beans, and were frightened. The boy died, but the girl adapted, learned English, and shared they came from a place called St. Martin's Land. Chroniclers documented the event, sparking debates on its credibility. The story remains a mystery with various theories surrounding it.

Imagine, the year is 1100 and you live in a quiet English village. Two children appear out of nowhere. They speak no known language and refuse all food. But their skin is green. Sounds fake, right? Well, some of the strangest stories in history aren't myths. They were written down by people who believed that they were telling the truth. This is Historically Unsupervised. So I took a pretty long hiatus from recording anything for a while. So it's been about a month or two since I last recorded anything.

I'm hoping that I still got it. So I guess we're going to find out because I ran out of episodes and it's time for me to start making more. I started a new job, but I'm technically part-time for the next month. And so this week I have a little bit more free time. So I shall be catching up again on all the episodes because I may be a little behind, but I will do more episodes for you, a.k.a. the sole, like, four people who are still listening and keeping up with me. Shout out to mom. But hey, I'll take it, okay? Like I've said many times before, I'm really just kind of doing this for me, and you can stay along for the journey with me. I would love for you to keep up with every episode, but I also understand that not everybody has all the time in the world to do that. So today's story is, like, kind of odd.

It's really, I like to think of it as one of history's first, like, conspiracy theories. And Lord knows, if you are a Gen Z or a millennial that grew up with YouTube, then you probably know all about conspiracy theories because it was kind of all the rage on the Internet for a long time. Like, I feel like everybody in our age group who grew up with YouTube just kind of have all this knowledge about random conspiracy theories because we all just watched videos about different theories, and we're all just believers in something otherworldly.

I guess that's one way to put it. So if you are one of those people, then this story might be perfect for you. And I can't wait for you to get your own opinions on if you truly believe that these children were green, if they were aliens. We'll get into all the good details about all that stuff, and I'll let you form your own opinion and see what you think actually happened. This is also our first episode of Medieval Mayhem, which is my other sub-series for, like, the Medieval Times.

And it's funny, when I say Medieval Times out loud, it just makes me think of the stage-slash-restaurant place that's, like, by Disney World or whatever. And I've only been maybe once in my lifetime or maybe twice, and I just remember it being super fun, so I kind of want to go do that again. If anybody's up for it, let me know. I think it would be a lot more fun as an adult than it would be as a kid, to be honest.

So if you're into Medieval Times and anything medieval, then this is the series for you. And the story is just, like, really weird, and not a lot of people talk about it, but it just feels relevant. I know Wicked is not trendy at the moment, but it was for a while, and these children were green, so it just feels right to bring in Wicked as well. I went to the movies with one of my best friends, Caitlin, to go see the first and second Wicked, and the first one was so good, and it made my expectations so high, but honestly, the second one was just, like, not as good as the first.

Maybe that's a controversial opinion, I don't know, but I feel it's true. And the thing is, I loved the second half of Wicked, the play, but I loved the first and the movies. It seems they put a lot more of their effort into the first part, and the second part was just kind of halfway done, in my opinion, but it was still good, just not the same. I remember when I went to go see the first one with my friend in the movies, they sang Defying Gravity, and then the first movie was over, and I literally almost screamed in the middle of the theater, because I was like, are you kidding me? I thought that this was the full thing.

I didn't realize that it was just part one, and then I'd have to wait a whole other year to see the second part, and then now that I've seen it, it wasn't as good as I remember, but that's okay. So if you're a Wicked fan, or a fan of Elphaba, then this story is going to be pretty relevant to you as someone who likes the green character in that film, because this story is all about these children who just show up in a village and are literally green.

This might be a bit of a shorter episode, but who knows, because I can talk about anything for an extended period of time, but I promise it's a good one, so stick with me, and we'll get right into it. So I'm going to share with you the story that's been told for years. Who knows if it's true, but that's the fun of it, right? So our story begins in 12th century medieval England, located in a small village called Woolpit, or I guess if you were English, you'd say Woolpate.

Forgive me if I throw on an English accent every now and then. I think it just makes it a little more fun. So the villagers of this village, no, I'm not going to say that. That was too many villages. The people in this village discovered something that they just simply could not explain. They found something near a series of something called wolf pits, which makes sense because the place is called Woolpate, and these wolf pits are basically like deep holes that they would use to trap the animals, and it's also obviously where the name of the village came from.

Inside one of the wolf pits, they found two children, a boy and a girl. Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that something was wrong with these children. They were green, or so the story says, like two little baby Elphabas. Oh, well. Forgive me. I might take that out, or I might just embarrass myself. Who knows? So these green children were wearing these unfamiliar clothes. They spoke in a language that no one recognized, and they just obviously because they're seeing these other people that they don't know, they were terrified and disoriented.

So naturally, you know, mother's instinct. They wanted to help the children, so they brought them in. What's the first thing a mama does whenever they see a child that's disoriented? Feed them. But unfortunately, it was a little weird because the children refused to eat pretty much everything. They refused to eat the bread, any meat, vegetables, except for one food in particular. They were given these raw beans, and they were like, yep, that's what I want to eat.

That is my dish of choice. What we know about the kids so far is that they don't speak any English, they're green, and they only eat raw beans. So after feeding the kids, a local landowner decided to take the kids in. The landowner attempted to care for them over time. Now, while time passed, their condition would change, but not without any tragedy. They were basically adapting to their surroundings. Unfortunately, them adapting was really difficult. Also keep in mind, they only eat raw beans, so how much nutrition can you really get from that? The boy grew weak and died.

He was unable to adapt to his surroundings. But the little girl survived, and she adapted pretty well. Gradually, she started to learn to eat other foods. Her green skin would fade, and then she began to learn English. Now, because she started to learn English, of course, she was able to communicate her story about where she came from, which only deepens the mystery and makes it even more wild. She said that her and the little boy were brother and sister, and that they came from a place called St.

Martin's Land. She described St. Martin's Land as a world where the sun never shone brightly, everything had a greenish tint to it, and the land existed in kind of a perpetual twilight. She claims that she ended up in Woolpit because she was tending to cattle and then heard the sound of bells, and so she followed the noise. She entered a cave and then walked through this darkness and suddenly emerged into the bright world of Woolpit. And they had no idea where they were or how they could return home.

So not only was it weird to start, but she just further made it even crazier. Like, St. Martin's Land almost just sounds like a leprechaun fever dream. But that was the story that the girl claimed, and over time the story would continue to pass down through generations. But, you know, because it's a conspiracy theory, somebody has to do a deep dive on it. We can't just accept it as simple folklore. We have to get the details.

So the story was recorded by two medieval chroniclers. Chroniclers. Imagine that being your job title. Medieval chronicler. William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, I think. We're going to stick with that. Both of these two documented the event in the 1100s, and they treated it as something that had actually occurred, although it was unusual. And on the surface, it seems just like a cute little medieval folklore story to tell. But there's actually just, like, so much behind it, including multiple theories that we'll get into.

So naturally, of course, what is everybody's first question? Did this actually happen? Many ask about the credibility behind the story, which feels fair. Because, I mean, how are you telling me that two green children appear out of nowhere from this far-off land and only eat raw beans? It just seems a little far-fetched, which I totally understand. Like, you're telling me someone would tell me that story back in the day, and I would just have to say, yeah, that totally happened.

No way. I'd have questions, which is what deep dives on stories are for. I don't want to accept that this is just the story. I want to know why. So our two medieval chroniclers were not just random storytellers. They were actual historians. In fact, both of them were considered serious chroniclers and taken very seriously in English history. They wrote the story in the 12th century, which is actually fairly close to when the event actually happened. However, we have to be realistic, because a medieval chronicler isn't exactly known as what we would consider a modern historian.