Duncan Lunan Joined Mysterious Matters to discuss the Green Children of Woolpit and many other topics, In the late 12th century, two very strange children came out of an ancient earthwork at the village of Woolpit in East Anglia. The incident is recorded, from different viewpoints, by two chroniclers both regarded as reliable. The children wore clothing of color and material never seen before, spoke a language nobody recognized, and were colored green all over. Later, when they had learned 'our manner of speaking and lost their green color, they gave an account of their homeland which definitely was no place on Earth.