William of Newburgh

Now, the tale of the Green Children of Woolpit is one of the most enduring and unsettling legends from medieval England.

Unlike many folklore stories that exist in a vacuum of once upon a time, this event was recorded by two respected contemporary chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall.

Their accounts, written around twelve hundred AD, describe an event that allegedly took place during the reign of King Stephen, which was eleven thirty-five to eleven fifty-four.

Now, it's a mystery that sits uncomfortably between historical fact, folklore, and high-concept science fiction.

Now, the tale of the Green Children of Woolpit is one of the most enduring and unsettling legends from medieval England.

Unlike many folklore stories that exist in a vacuum of once upon a time, this event was recorded by two respected contemporary chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall.

Their accounts, written around 1200 AD, describe an event that allegedly took place during the reign of King Stephen, which was 1135 to 1154.

Now, it's a mystery that sits uncomfortably between historical fact, folklore, and high-concept science fiction.

Now, the tale of the Green Children of Woolpit is one of the most enduring and unsettling legends from medieval England.

Unlike many folklore stories that exist in a vacuum of once upon a time, this event was recorded by two respected contemporary chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall.

Their accounts, written around 1200 AD, describe an event that allegedly took place during the reign of King Stephen, which was 1135 to 1154.

Now, it's a mystery that sits uncomfortably between historical fact, folklore, and high-concept science fiction.

Now, the tale of the Green Children of Woolpit is one of the most enduring and unsettling legends from medieval England.

Unlike many folklore stories that exist in a vacuum of once upon a time, this event was recorded by two respected contemporary chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall.

Their accounts, written around 1200 AD, describe an event that allegedly took place during the reign of King Stephen, which was 1135 to 1154.

Now, it's a mystery that sits uncomfortably between historical fact, folklore, and high-concept science fiction.

I think there's a third, but it was barely mentioned.

One of them is William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum Anglicarum, which is the history of English affairs.

And that was written in 1189, which is only 30 years after this happened.

Well, almost 40 years after this happened.

Both men wrote about the Green Children as though it had significance.

Hmm.

William of Newburgh, and this is going back to the first guy, he wrote about King Stephen's tyranny, classic English revenants, which were like zombies.

It's based on an old...

So it's not vampires, it's what we would call revenants which are, um, corpses that move.

One of the key stories for this is a folk belief, as a real belief, is, um, William of Newburgh's.

He wrote a book called Historia Rerum Anglicarum, uh, The History of English Things, um, in, in an late 12th century, and he records several reanimated corpses in the north of England.

So, "In Alnwick, a dead man linked to moral failings," important, "is seen wandering by night, and plague follows in the town.