In an English village in the 1100s, two green-skinned children appeared one day and some have claimed they were aliens or fairies. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli consider who were the green children of Woolpit, where did they come from, and why were they green?
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Links for this episode:
- Garth Haslam’s book The Green Children of Woolpit
- Brian Haughton’s book Hidden Histories
- Green Children of Woolpit
- Woolpit
- William of Newburgh
- Ralph of Coggeshall
- Bury St. Edmunds abbey
- Fornham St. Martin
- Jaundice
- Hyperchromic Anemia
- Fulling (what fullers do)
- Battle of Fornham
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