Megalithic Marvels - The Medieval Mystery of the Green Children of Woolpit

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

In this episode I break down the fascinating twelfth century account of the "Green Children of Woolpit," who seemingly appeared out of nowhere one evening near the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England during harvest season. Why did these children have green skin? Where did they come from? Were they really humans? I will attempt to answer some of these questions and also share many theories regarding these enigmatic kids. Next, we will travel to Utah to investigate the very strange six fingered “Bigfoot” petroglyph located in the Uinta Basin. No other petroglyph figure possesses feet of this size, proportion and nature anywhere else in this style or region. Was the ancient artist depicting what he saw or maybe what his ancestors said they saw according to their oral traditions? Might this be depicting a hybrid demi-god from the old world that descended into the American south-west in ages past?Lastly, I will read an enigmatic account found in the digital archives of the library of congress that speaks of some large skeletons with four fingers and four toes unearthed in a Connecticut quarry in the 1800s. Utah’s Ancient Six Fingered “Bigfoot” Petroglyph 1867 Report: Large 4 fingered Skeletons Unearthed in CN Quarry

Stargate Voyager. So in this episode, we're going to hit on some exciting topics. I'm really excited to tell you about if you've never heard, the mystery of the medieval green children of Woolpit. This is a fascinating medieval tale that many believe is true and has some very crazy mysteries surrounding it. And then if we have time, we'll travel to Utah after that, to talk about some very strange otherworldly petroglyphs,

one of which is known as the six-fingered Bigfoot. And when you hear about or see the photos of this thing, you are going to be probably shocked. And then if we have time after that, we're going to travel to Connecticut, where I'm going to break down an 1867 report that I found in the digital archives of the Library of Congress but talk about some very strange four-fingered skeletons that were discovered in a quarry.

You're not going to want to miss this. I am fresh back from our Egypt tour. We had the most amazing time ever. It was such an amazing group of people from all over, really. We had people from all over the states, Texas, Idaho, Pennsylvania, California, California, Minnesota. We had people from Australia, England. Belgium, to name a few. So it was a pretty diverse group of people.

And man, did we experience Egypt like never before. A couple of my highlights real quick. I'd seen the Bent Pyramid, which is located in Dasur, about an hour south of Giza. I'd seen this pyramid a handful of times, but I never went inside of it. Usually when I'm in this area, you see the Bent Pyramid and then the Red Pyramid,

which is right next to it. And I usually go into the red pyramid. But we had like 20 minutes left. And a fellow group member influenced me and said, hey, let's go check out the bent pyramid. So we went inside and man was just one of the highlights of my trip. Now, I set this up real quick, the bent pyramid. It still possesses many of its casing stones, which is just an amazing sight to see. But mainstream Egyptology says this pyramid.

was built under Old Kingdom of Pharaoh Sneffero approximately 2,600 BC. And the walls of the lower part of the pyramid, they rise at an angle of 54 degrees, and then at about 161 feet above the base, there's this abrupt flattening of the slope to 43 degrees. And so that's why they call it the bent pyramid, because prominent theories regarding its strange shape include that it was either damaged during construction, during construction or that the builders made a miscalculation during construction and therefore

changed their plans. But the reason this was one of my highlights because going inside this pyramid, which is way smaller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, yet the massive descent that you make inside of it to get to the bottom and then go up was very hard. It seemed like it might have been about 200 feet or so down into this thin. When I say, down you have to go up you know there's scaffolding built to get about halfway up up the pyramid on the outside and then you go down all the way like 200 feet and then you hit the bottom it levels off and then you go up a little bit and then you get inside of it at its base and you're looking up and this thing is anything but a mistake inside its precision trapezoidal perfection and if you're

watching on YouTube or Spotify, you're going to see images of me taking a photograph, looking up inside this thing. And really, again, the sense you get is that this was some kind of ancient machine. And then the other highlight would be on the last full day of our tour, we, our group had a private visit inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, two hours just by ourselves, just our group. this whole entire every minute of this two-hour visit, private tour was incredible, but especially the part at the end, there was about 20 minutes left of our two-hour allotment. By this time, most people had already been down to the subterranean chamber in the Great Pyramid and had left. And I had spent most of my time up at the so-called King's Chamber and in the so-called

Queens Chamber. And I had 20 minutes left. I was dog-tired from going up and down. this pyramid i mean it's it's so hot inside and humid you're baking your dripping sweat and so i thought man maybe i should just call it a day and um just kind of enjoy uh the upper courses of this pyramid but the adventurous side of me kicked in and i said no way there's no way i can miss going to the subterranean chamber of the great pyramid let's go and so i made my way to the entrance uh or the descending passage away goes down 300 feet, I believe, into the sub-training chamber underground, under the pyramid, the basement. And I told my buddy Hank on the trip from San Francisco, I said, bro, if I don't come back in 20 minutes, promise me that you're coming after me and he gave me his word.

And so I had my flashlights and it was just me all by myself going all the way down, the descending passageway towards the subterranean chamber. You know, if I turn the flashlights off, it's pitch black. And I finally get all the way down to the bottom where it levels off. And you literally have to do a belly crawl into the opening that takes you into the subterranean chamber. But once I was inside, this was such an incredible experience because I was literally all by myself. Nobody else talking. And so there was a couple moments in there where I was just silent.

you know, shining my flashlight, just taking it all in, that I was in the subterranean chamber all by myself. And how many great explorers had been inside this chamber? And even more, who were these ancient engineers that originally created this? And when did they create it? Was this 10,000 BC? Was this 50,000? BC and why did they create it? Obviously the mainstream narrative states that this sub-drainian chamber was some kind of tomb the pharaohs were using before they decided they wanted to go up to

the nicer chambers of the so-called Queen's Chamber and King's Chamber. But if you subscribe to Christopher Dunn's theories that these pyramids were some kind of ancient energy generators, Chris Dunn believes that this pit inside the subterranean chamber is where a lot of the chemicals were and the equipment that provided the priming pulses that generated this ancient energy generator. He believes it was in the subterranean chamber and in the pit. And if you're watching again on YouTube or Spotify, you might see video or photos of the giant pit that's in, down inside the subterranean chamber. I hope you guys can join me for a future Egypt tour.

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slash tours for all the info. So let's dive into this mystery of the medieval green children of Woolpit. Now this tale comes from the 12th century during the reign of King Stephen or the reign of King Henry II. Stephen, King Stephen reigned 1135 to 1154. King Henry reigned from 1154 to 1189. So the sources we have on this tale say that this happened during one of the reigns of one of those kings. And the origins of the story come from two main sources, both of whom were quite respected historians in their day. We've got William of Newburgh, who wrote the book, The History of English Affairs. And he wrote this around 1150. And his book is basically about the history of England from 1066 to 1198. And William states that he was so overwhelmed by the many competent witnesses regarding this tale of the green children that he just had to add the account to his book.

And then our other source is known as Ralph of Kogashall, and he wrote the book English Chronicle written about 1189. So the story takes place in the village of Wolpit in Suffolk, England. Now, Woolpit comes from the old English word wolf pit, where they used to make these stone chambers in the ground, apparently, to catch wolves that were coming after the sheep, I believe. So Wolf pit, Woolpit. Now, this story also takes place during harvest season when families and reapers are out gathering crops. And on this specific evening, the sun was being. beginning to set and light was starting to fade, when suddenly some of the reapers noticed something strange in the distance. What appeared to be two children standing beside one of the wolf

pits. Now, as the villagers drew near, they saw a young boy and a little bit older girl holding hands. The children appeared weak and seemed dazed and confused. But what's more? Both children had green-colored skin. That's right, green-colored skin. Now, the children pretty much collapse in the arms of the villagers due to exhaustion. And as the townsfolk asked the children who they are and where they came from, the children just mumble in a language the villagers don't understand. Now, Ralph of Cogashel's account states that the children were soon taken into the home of a Sir Richard de Cain. I believe he might have been a knight even, and it becomes clear that both children are in a dreadful state of health.

Therefore, meat, bread, and ale are brought out, but the children refuse to eat these fine medieval delicacies. Now, both primary sources, Ralph of Cogacol and William of Newburgh, agree that the children refused all the food for several days, maybe even weeks, until the children noticed some recently harvested raw broad beans, which they gestured for, and when they were given these beans, they consumed them eagerly. Now, their benevolent host, Sir Richard, decided that the kids should be baptized. Sadly, however, the boy, again, the younger of the two, he grew sicker still and soon died after the water baptism. Now, the girl slowly gains her strength and begins to acquire a taste

for normal food, and she begins to learn and even speak English as she adjusts to her new life. Now later when she's pressed again about how they came into Wolpin, the girl begins to share the fascinating story of how her and her brother were from a distant place that they called the St. Martin's Land, where there was apparently no sun or sunshine, but perpetual twilight. She continued to share that on this fateful day, they were helping to herd their father's cattle, when the herd suddenly went down into a dark cave. The children followed after the cattle inside.

And once inside the cave, they began to hear some loud noises, kind of like the sound of bells, the story goes. And then next they saw a bright light, and they followed the light in the sound, which led them out of the cave and into the fields of Wolpent. Quite a story. Now, based on his research into the knight, who was their host, Sir Richard DeCarran's family history, an astronomer and writer named Duncan Lunin, he concluded that the girl, based on his research,

was given the name of Agnes later on and that she even married a royal officer, a royal official named Richard a bar. So apparently the girl, Agnes, goes on to live a somewhat normal life. Now the tale resurfaces of the green children in the mid-Victorian period when folklorist Thomas neatly included it in his book, The Fairy Mythology, and he was associating them obviously with possibly being fairies. Even later, a couple hundred years removed from the actual supposed event, we have a few more contemporary accounts highlighted in the 1620s by a bishop Francis Godwin. This guy was a priest and historian who wrote a science fiction text called The Man in the Moon.

Now it's interesting to note that this book, The Man in the Moon, from the 1620s, is actually the first mansion we have in written text about aliens. So very interesting. And this guy, Godwin, references this account of the green children, and he uses it as evidence for aliens, where he says, people on the moon, beamed people down to Earth, children specifically to the human race

and exchanged them for human children. Fast forward to 1998, a guy named Paul Harris was writing a publication about strange phenomena, and he proposes that the children might have been actually Flemish orphans who were fleeing from a nearby town where there was a battle in 1173 and that he believes maybe the parents were killed in this battle because guess what, the name of the village is Fornum St. Martin. And it's apparently just a few miles away from Woolpit.

And so he theorized that the green color may have been caused by a condition caused by a kind of anemia called chlorosis, I believe, from dietary deficiency. This is where your skin color changes due to diet, which is not necessarily unheard of. They also call it the green skin, this condition of, I think another word for it is hyperchromic anemia. and it used to be known as the green sickness due to its tendency to cause green patches on skin due to iron deficiency. Now, before we get off this topic of skin color changing due to physical deficiencies, have you heard of the blue people of Kentucky? Well, crazy enough, the fugit family, commonly known as the blue fugits or the blue people of Kentucky, check this out. were an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a strange genetic trait that caused the skin to appear blue.

There's even a specific word for it, but I cannot pronounce it. Now, this fugit family, they settled in an area of Perry County, Kentucky, literally in the year 1800. And again, they had a recessive gene related to their blood hemoglobin that caused them to had this blue tint of skin. Now, this area of Kentucky they were living in is very remote in the hills and it was a very remote area up until even the 20th century. And so the fugits and a handful of other families, they intermarried for decades. And the result was what they called the fugit founder effect. This blue tint gene becoming dominant in that area of Perry County by the mid-19th century. And so some theorized perhaps the green children of Woolpit were part of assimilated, isolated

community. Now, others like medievalist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a different kind of historical explanation, arguing that this story is an oblique account of the racial differences between the English and indigenous Britons. Others suggest that the two children may represent simultaneously life and death, and that the children's pigmentation change would symbolize the passing from death to life, and that this is a tale regarding the cycles of nature and rebirth with crops. And lastly, it should also be noted that there's another medieval tale surrounding a mysterious green knight or the green man, who was a heroic character in a 14th century poem known as the Matter of Britain, I believe.

And this Green Knight has kind of this role in the Arthurian literature, and it includes him being a judge and a tester of knights, and as such, other characters consider him as friendly, but terrifying and somewhat mysterious. And so this Green Knight or the Green Man, again, is in medieval lore, also because his skin is apparently green. And the meaning of his greenness has also puzzled scholars. Some identify him, again, as the green knight, some as the green man.

Some identify him as being a vegetation being of medieval art. Others as a reflection of a figure from Celtic mythology. Others as a Christian pagan symbol that maybe personifies the devil. but even medievalist C.S. Lewis said the character of the green knight was, quote, as vivid and concrete as any image in literature, end quote. So what do you guys think of the green children of Wolpet? Were they from the hollow earth? Are they fairies? Were they actually aliens? Did these kids fall into some kind of time slip? Was the cave a portal or a Stargate? Or is this all just made up folklore or legend?

Leave me a comment below from wherever you're listening, and I'd love to know what you think about this story. All right, let's travel to Utah now and talk about the ancient six-fingered Bigfoot petroglyph. And this incredible petroglyph and the petroglyphs are now were first brought to my attention by Abby Warnock Matthews, who I follow on Instagram, and I'll link her in the show notes below, but she had posted photographs, her own photographs, of these strange petroglyphs.

And so I reached out to her for more information. And we actually did a podcast episode more in depth about this a couple years ago. But I was looking at these photos recently, and I thought, man, I've just got to, for all my new listeners, new viewers, I got to, I got to, least talk about this one six-fingered petroglyph because it's so fascinating. But if you want to see all these photos and learn even more, just click the link in the show notes to be taken to Abby's photos. And again, a lot of this information comes from her. So Utah's Uinta Basin is home to some very unique rock art featuring depictions that aren't found really anywhere else. And these petroglyphs

are often referred to as classic vernal style. And they're believed to, have been created by the Fremont culture sometime between 1 and 1,200 AD. Now, unlike other rock art in Utah, which depicts mostly animals, hunters, and faceless anthropomorphs, these dry fork petroglyphs depict varying scenes of chaos. These anthropomorphic figures have intensely decorated heads and shoulders highlighted by horns, jewelry, and headpieces. Many are holding severed heads in their hands, which these severed heads feature pecked trails of tears flowing down their faces.

And some are painted, you can still see with red streaks of blood, red for coloring. Simply fascinating. Now, the most fantastic figurine of all of these featured amongst these dry fork, petroglyphs again in Utah is what is known as the bigfoot for obvious reasons and he is indeed rare as no other figure we know of possesses feet of this size and this proportion of nature anywhere else in this style or region and when you look at this photo it is incredible you see this being or this entity. He has gigantic feet, I mean gigantic feet in proportion with his body. But when you look at his head, he's got a cone-shaped head that looks very elongated. Now, was this an elaborate headdress

or is this rock art depicting an elongated school with horns? Because you see this elongated conical shaped head, but then you see what looks like horns coming out the sides. So again, is this a very elaborate headdress or is this an elongated skull with horns? You can see eyes, you can see the mouth. This thing looks to have some kind of necklace on it. He's wearing some kind of clothing. But what's more? On the left hand, there it is.

six fingers on his left hand. Six fingers. Now, the other hand might have six fingers as well, and I think I lean towards that it does, but unfortunately it's been a little bit damaged, and so it's hard to tell for certain how many fingers are on the right hand. But was this ancient artist depicting what he saw, or was he depicting maybe what his ancestors said they saw,

according to their oral traditions. That's where my mind goes. Might this be depicting some hybrid demigod from the old world that descended into the American Southwest in ages past? Now, as you look at some of these other amazing photos of these petroglyphs, you see these circular shapes around some of the figures. And they've been called shields by some archaeologists, but we find it very interesting that all of the figures are depicted standing in the middle of these circles

with their bodies visible, like through the shield. So it seems almost more, according to Abby, like it's a depiction of a figure standing inside a specular light source, like a spotlight or a tunnel. And there are definitely aspects of these that seem shamanic or psychedelic in nature, especially when compared to other motifs in shamanic cave art. When you look at the heads of many of these other figures, I mean, there are some that look like they've got giant horns.

Again, so I kind of lean towards these aren't headdresses, but these are actual horns. And again, they're holding severed heads with tears. Could this have been a tribe of fierce warriors defeating their enemy? Or, again, are these possibly depiction of vengeful gods smiting their followers. In a couple of the scenes, I mean, it shows what looks like either pygmy or normal-sized entities

and then giant entities behind them. So again, there's really something going on here. Are these midgets or pygmies with normal-sized leaders, or are those normal-sized people, with giants behind them. I would love to know what you think, again, from wherever you're listening. Leave me a comment. Let me know what you think about these crazy insane petroglyphs in Utah.

All right. And last but not least, let's talk about this 1867 report that's literally in the digital archives of the Library of Congress. So this isn't me saying this. This is an 1867 newspaper that you can click on in the Library of Congress. And again, I'm going to put this link in the show notes if you want to click on this and see the original article yourself. And this account comes from the newspaper called the Aegis and Intelligencer on June 21, 1867. And here's what it says. The headline is, quote, wonderful relics of the pre-adamite.

The article reads as follows, quote, A well-known literary gentleman of Middletown, Connecticut, has made public the following remarkable geological discoveries upon the banks of Connecticut River. On the east bank of the Connecticut are the Portland Stone Quarries, which have been worked for 150 years. At present, in three quarries, about 1,000 men are at work and 30 or 40 vessels are employed in currying the stone to the great markets.

These excavations, which have reached the depth of 150 feet below the surface of the water and the river, have revealed untold wonders. The stone is said to be full of fossil remains in its lowest depths. It is God's great book of records, which has been here carefully preserved, and hermetically sealed up until within the last few years. On the countless leaves of this book are found the records of the past ages. They tell us of the climate, of the seasons, and of the storms, of the birds and animals, and more wonderful still, they tell us of the men of those age.

Show us their implements and shadow forth something of their customs. They also opened to us their graves and show us their modes of burial. The men lying in one posture and the women in another. These men had all three fingers and a thumb and four toes. The comparatively more recent of them were six to seven feet high, but as we unfold the leaves further and proceed far back in the cycles of time to the lowest depths of the rock we come to a race, of giants 12 feet high with shoes and who had domesticated animals of peculiar structures and great size.

The only human instruments so far discovered were made of stone. They had saws and long knives made of slate. This sandstone basin is believed to be the same geological age as the basin of Paris and France, but the fossil remains are more numerous than those in the Paris Basin. and more wonderful and in a better state of preservation. The most indefatigable observer and the most industrious collector of these facts is Dr. Barrett, who has spent almost a lifetime in collecting fragmentary evidence and surmounting difficulties. Many years since the fact of a pre-Adamite race dawned upon him, and he announced it in conversation.

Precisely similar discoveries have been made in Europe. Dr. Barrett says men trod this valley at least 90,000 years ago, but not our race. The present race is a new and distinct creation. So a very interesting article to say the least from 1867 right there in the digital archives of the Library of Congress, talking about a possible pre-Adamite race from 90,000. years ago. I love finding these kind of stories. I mean, the article mentions not just seven foot tall skeletons, but 12 foot. It mentions these skeletons with like four fingers and four toes.

Very strange to say the least. Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please subscribe to this podcast from wherever you're listening, whether that's YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or some else. And hey, help me spread the word by sharing this podcast with somebody else. It was pretty cool. Last week, this podcast was dipping into the top 50 of Spotify's top podcast in the history category. So let's try to get up there into the top 25 and beyond. Well, until next time, keep exploring.