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The Green Children

Woolpit, Suffolk

Two green-skinned children climb out of a wolf pit, speaking no known tongue.

Two medieval chroniclers tell how a boy and girl with green skin were found beside the wolf pits that gave Woolpit its name. They spoke a strange language and would only eat beans.

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When
12th century
Where
52.2240, 0.8880
Group
Unexplained

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See the village sign on the green beside the church.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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