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“ Sometime
during the 12th century, a monastic chronicler in England by the name of "Gervase of Tilbury" recorded a strange account of two "children" who suddenly appeared near a small town near Bury St. Edmunds, England.
The account was also recorded in the writings of several other chroniclers who
lived at the time or sometime afterwards. These include:
William of Newbury -- HISTORIA RERUM ANGLICARUM, written in Yorkshire, England
(1136-1198?); Abbot Ralph of
Coggeshall -- CHRONICON ANGLICARUM; and also the chroniclers Giraldus Cambrensis
and Walsingham. The account was more recently related in FLYING
SAUCERS UNCENSORED, by Harold T. Wilkins (Citadel Press., New York, N.Y. 1955.,
pp. 97-98). From their combined accounts we can piece together the following
bizarre story which the chroniclers swore to be true:
“One warm, sunny day in the 12th century some farmers and other residents of
the small town of Wolfpittes, England ( some seven miles distant from the larger
village of Burry St. Edmunds ) were startled to see two young children wandering
around, as if disoriented, in some ancient 'pits' or 'trenches' known to the
locals as the 'Wolf-Pitts' -- after which the small village had taken it's
name. These excavations were ancient, but no one seemed to know when or by whom
they were dug, but the consensus was that they were at least partly artificial,
and very ancient. The most shocking thing about the children, which the
residents of Wolfpittes encountered, was that they had skin which was
olive-green in colour, yet the rest of their features were as human as the
average Englishman.
The villagers attempted to communicate with the children but were unsuccessful,
as they soon discovered that the young boy and girl spoke a language which was
completely unfamiliar to the villagers. The townspeople had compassion on the
children and took them to the village and offered them various different kinds
of food, all of which they seemed unfamiliar with and which they refused.
However, when they were shown some beanstalks, they took them greedily, but
instead of opening the bean-pods, the children attempted to open the stalks
themselves, as if they had been accustomed to opening stalks in this way (apparently
a practice they had learned in the land from which they emerged). Upon finding
nothing in the stalks, the children began to weep. Unfortunately, the shock of
entering our world was too much for the young boy, and even though he became
partly acclimated to other forms of food, he nevertheless became weaker and
weaker and finally died as few years afterwards. The young girl, however,
adjusted quite well to her new surroundings. In fact she eventually grew into a
mature, beautiful woman, and later married a gentleman from the nearby town of
Kings Lynn. As time passed, her husband patiently instructed her in the
complexities of the English language, and soon she was able to communicate
fairly well, and the story she told of where she had come from and how she had
arrived in our 'world' with her brother was even more incredible.
She told her husband that her people all had skin similar to hers, or rather
similar to what her skin had once been like, as over a period of years and
exposure to the outer elements the greenish tinge had left her. She described
her world as a cavernous, subterranean country of enormous size, a country which
went by the name of "St. Martin's Land." The land in which she lived
was described as 'twilight' in nature, yet there was a large underground river,
on the other side of which there was another land more brightly lit. One day,
she and her brother were herding some type of underground animal when they heard
something like the sound of 'bells' emerging from one of the cave passages or
tunnels which lined the perimeter of this underground land. Out of extreme
curiosity, they entered this tunnel and followed the passage upwards for what
could have been a few days, although in their underground land it is probable
that they did not have any concept of what 'day' or 'night' was. After their
long and weary journey up the steep incline they suddenly emerged into the
brilliant sunlight of the British countryside. The change from their twilight
world was dramatic, and the children walked around in the pits or trenches
starved, half-blinded and disoriented. They shortly afterwards attempted to
re-locate the small opening through which they had emerged, but were unable to
do so, because of the blinding light. At about this point the farmers found the
children and took them to the village.
A somewhat similar incident 'may' have been repeated in the small hamlet of
Banjos Spain in August of 1887, several hundred years after the incident at
Wolfpittes and several hundred miles distant. We state that it MAY have been
repeated to some degree simply because there appears to be some confusion
surrounding the Banjos account, apparently due to the possibility that some
well-meaning researcher may have confused the two incidents, in essence
attributing some of the events that in fact took place near Wolfpittes with the
Banjos account. Basically, the Banjos incident reportedly involved two children
with greenish skin who emerged from a CAVERN near the town (not 'pits' or 'excavations'),
spoke an unknown language, and so on, although the details are sketchy. Some of
the accounts of the Banjos incident repeat the Wolfpittes story almost verbatim,
as if, as we said, someone somewhere mistakenly confused the two events, perhaps
due to a lack of detail in the Banjos, Spain account.”