Eerie Tales with Cosette: The green children of Woolpit - Strangers from a twilight land

Harvest morning, 12th-century Suffolk. Sickles flash through barley… then stop.
From the mouth of an ancient wolf-pit crawl two children.
Skin the colour of fresh nettles. Clothes that shimmer like water.
Their voices? Not English. Not human.
Hello, night wanderers. I’m Cosette, and you’ve just crossed the threshold into Eerie Tales with Cosette.
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Before Woolpit’s bells toll again, ask yourself:
What if the children weren’t lost… but exiled?
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The Tale Begins

King Stephen’s England, 1150-ish. Civil war. Famine. Hope as thin as winter soup.
In Woolpit—named for the wolf-traps that scar its fields—reapers reach the oldest pit at noon.
Local children are forbidden to look inside. They say it breathes.
Today it delivers.
Two small figures stagger into sunlight, blinking like owls.
Boy and girl, no more than ten. Skin glowing faint emerald.
Tunics of unknown weave.
They speak in liquid syllables that make the dogs howl.
Offered bread, they recoil.
Only raw bean pods—stalks and all—bring frantic hunger.
Carried to Sir Richard de Calne’s manor, scrubbed, reclothed, and force-fed wheaten loaves.
The boy fades fast—green deepens to rot.
Within weeks he’s buried beneath St Mary’s flagstones, nameless.
The girl survives.
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The Girl’s Testimony

They call her Agnes—the closest they can manage to her true name.
Her English grows swift, accented like wind over foreign marshes.
One candlelit evening, the steward’s quill scratches:
“We are from St Martin’s Land.
The sun there never climbs. It lingers on the rim of the world, a perpetual dusk.
Everything is green—skin, rivers, sheep, sky.
We heard your church bells across shining water, faint as memory.
While herding glowing cattle, a clang—like the world cracking—swallowed us.
Then… the pit. Your blinding sun.”

Historical Corroboration

Two chroniclers, decades apart, record the same impossible tale.
- William of Newburgh, 1189: “Viridis pueri”—green children. Sir Richard is still living.
- Ralph of Coggeshall, 1220: heard it from de Calne himself.
Both monks. Both sober.
Modern radar finds tunnel traces beneath Woolpit.
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Theories – Ancient to Outlandish

1. Flemish Orphans – Chlorosis (greenish pallor from malnutrition). Middle Dutch mistaken for alien speech. But chlorosis is yellow, not emerald.
2. Mine-Dwellers – Generations underground; copper in water staining skin. Illuminated-manuscript pigments?
3. Hollow Earth – Halley’s spheres, inner ocean, magnetic "clang".
4. Changeling Swap – Suffolk faerie lore: green-skinned replacements.
5. Parallel Realm – Crop-circle nexus; portal event.

Agnes’ Later Life

Agnes marries well—possibly Richard Barre, royal ambassador.
Bears ordinary children.
Dies whispering:
“Your light is too fierce. I miss the green dusk.”
Her bloodline allegedly walks Suffolk still.
No one admits it.

Outro 

Stand in Woolpit at harvest moon.
Listen.
Two small voices, like water over stone, calling a brother who never returned.
If that echo lingers in your bones, subscribe now – the veil thins further next week.
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Until next time, watch the fields… and mind the pits.

Thank you for descending with me.