Aliens Beneath Our Feet - The Legend of the Green Children of Woolpit

Is it possible that there are aliens living beneath our feeta land of light. Could that be have been us and our sun
deep within the earth? You, the reader, can read thislight and moon light she was talking about? And could it
article and decide what you think.have been our light that provided their constant
Some may have heard of the Green Kids that cametwilight?
from beneath the Earth's surface and then this mayThe children were asked how they had made it to the
be new to others.surface. In different stories there have been described
This is considered as a legend, but there is alwaysdifferent ways of how this happened. One is that the
truth behind every legend. There are several differentbrother and her were leading their flocks and they
stories about these children, but all are similar. In everyheard the sound of bells. The sweet sound of bells
story a girl of about ten years old with a boy of a fewlead them to the surface. In another story it was just
years younger were found at the mouth of a cavethe sound of the bells that caused them to explore the
dressed in clothes that were unknown to anyone.place. Yet another story tells that they were walking
Some described their clothing as being made of aand something pushed them and they fell through a
strange metallic cloth. Their skin was green and thehole and then wondered to the top. In the first, original
villagers that found them said that the language theystory, they followed the sound of the bells.
spoke was like no other they had ever heard before.The village people of Suffolk and Norfolk are left to
Now, before I go any further into this story you shouldbelieve that the legend was started because the
know that this legend first began in a town calledguardian of the children tried to kill them by giving both
Woolpit in England during the middle of the 12th centuryof them arsenic then left them both to die in Wayland
around 1135 to 1154 A.D. Woolpit is on the border ofWoods so he could take control of what would have
Norfolk and Suffolk in Thefford Forest.been their estate when they reached the proper age.
The children were taken to a man by the name ofThe Woolpit people believe that these were the same
Richard de Calne. The people made their best effortchildren that were found, They were alive, but they
to care for the children, but they refused to eat orwere very ill and disoriented.
drink anything for some time until they were offeredThere have been several theories relating to the two
fresh bean stalks. At first the children wept becausegreen children. Were they aliens from Mars, maybe
they thought the stalks were empty. When theyfrom the fourth dimension next to ours, or were they
realized that the beans were still in the pods on thefrom an anti-dimension and could they be connected
stalks they ate their fill of the beans very quickly andto the tales of the under-race?
would have nothing else to eat for quite some time.A scientist says that if you live underground
The local people tried to nurse the children back tocontinuously then that will bring a bluish-green color to
health, but about a year after finding them the boyyour skin. Also, it has been said that if enough arsenic
became ill and died. The girl, on the other hand,is ingested, or if you are severely anemic your skin will
became very healthy and some say that she livedturn green. If that is true then why do they continue this
long enough to marry and that she lived as a servant.legend and about the land beneath us? We are
In other stories it is said that she lived for only aboutsearching the skies for alien life forms, but could we
five years after being found. The girl did learn thealready be sharing the Earth with aliens?
language and she told how she had gotten to theIs there an alien empire beneath us? This story has
surface and gave some descriptions of her homeland.been told around the world and some even claim that
She said the name of her land was called "St. Martin'sit has happened in more than one place and time
Land." Also, according to her statement, there was aperiod. So, are there aliens beneath our feet, or if this
lot of other people, green skinned like herself under thereally has happened many times then were the people
Earth's surface, although by this time her skin was nopoisoned by arsenic every time or were they all
longer green and had become more like ours is today.anemic?
The land from which they appeared had no sun, only aYou can make up your own mind on whether or not
light like what we would call twilight all of the time. Sheyou believe this. But you may wonder what we are
claimed that beyond a great body of water there waswalking, driving, and building on? A colony of aliens?