A closer look
Two intensely mysterious children with completely green skin were allegedly discovered wandering near a wolf pit in a twelfth-century English village, baffling medieval historians for centuries. These siblings spoke a completely unrecognizable language, wore unfamiliar clothing, and aggressively refused to eat anything except raw broad beans for months. They claimed they came from a subterranean world where the sun never shined and everything was tinted with an emerald hue, which sounds exactly like the premise of a terrible fantasy novel. Eventually, the boy became severely depressed and died, while the girl learned English, lost her greenish complexion, and casually integrated into society, taking her bizarre origins completely in stride. Modern scholars furiously debate whether they were Flemish refugees suffering from acute dietary anemia or just two highly dedicated pranksters who managed to permanently confuse medieval scholars with the weirdest commitment to a bit in early European history
