The Green Children of Woolpit
- Date of account
- Medieval accounts; usually associated with the twelfth century
- Location
- Woolpit, Suffolk
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The story of the Green Children of Woolpit appears in accounts by William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, who describe two children found speaking an unfamiliar language and having greenish skin; one reportedly died and the other adapted to local society. Later retellings have treated the episode as an encounter with subterranean or extraterrestrial beings, but the medieval texts are literary-historical sources with differing details, not modern incident reports. Possible explanations include folklore, misunderstood migration, illness, or symbolic narrative. AI-recalled, not verified eyewitness evidence.
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