Green children in Cornwall – quite a strange story from the 1100’s of two children that just turned up in village called Woolpit in Cornwall, who had green skin. One of them passed away, but the girl grew up and learnt English and told of where she had come from. Saying they had been taking care of their sheep and followed them into a cavern, where they then heard bells and followed the noise. Coming out of a hole into bright sunlight and became disorientated and lost. Then being found by the villagers and the hole they had emerged from being referred to as the wolf-pit by them (but that was the name of the village at some point). Interesting because she said they didn’t have a sun where she came from, only green light similar to dusk. Makes me think of tales of the vapour canopy and of different light, and period of extended darkness or different lighting and atmosphere. And ideas and stories of lands being underneath us, above us or not as far away as we think, are rife all over the world. The green skin aspect made me think of another character too (after being reminded by my other half), the wicked witch of the west from the Wizard of Oz. I hadn’t realised the author had written of the Land of Oz as a real place, and described it being sealed off and hidden from view by the sixth book, it was the film that turned it into a dream sequence. And of course, the Emerald City being a big green symbol to work your way towards. But with a continuous reminder of red in the shoes. The Matrix too focused on green as being the ‘background’ to everything, and as we know we use a green screen to project what we want in movie land, so maybe there is more to green than meets the eye. And of course, a flash of red in that film.

Another tale of something appearing from nowhere, but a bit more random and sketchy. After seeing this, I really did wonder about splits in dimensions. Mexican lamppost – this is a very grainy vid from nearly 20 years ago I believe, and can easily be debunked, but still gives me the heeby jeebies.

The man from Taured – in Japan in July 1954 was the curious case of a man who appeared at Tokyo Airport with a passport saying he was from Taured. On a map he showed the location as between France and Spain when questioned further as no-one had heard of it. Surprised to find the area called Andorra, he maintained that was where he was from. After being arrested and detained in a hotel and all his documents confiscated, he promptly disappeared. As did the documents apparently.

I guess these all can be put in a file of unsolved mysteries or chalked up to hearsay, but just as we apparently have people appearing from nowhere now and again, we also get people who just disappear. And although it seems we have plenty of nefarious characters and types in our realm who are capable of such things, it leads me to wonder how many of them are extraordinary, and more out of place than we know.

(c) K Wicks