Green Children

I read an article about the curious case of two green children, a boy and a girl, found in the 12th century, wearing strange clothing, speaking in an unknown tongue and would only eat beans at first. The boy sickened and died, but the girl thrived and soon lost her green colour. When later asked where she came from, she said "she and her brother had come from a country that was entirely green that was inhabited by green-skinned people. Even their sun, which was very feeble, glowed green". Interesting. Though the cause of her green-ness is probably not genetic, since she later lost the colour.

Anyway, what amused me particularly about this story was when, after offering an endocrine disorder as a scientific explanation of the green children, the writer states that "the chances of such diseases and disorders occurring in two youngsters simultaneously however, are highly unlikely. The only credible possibilities seem to be the extraterrestrial or parallel world hypotheses."

Hahahahaha. Yes. The disease being carried by siblings is highly unlikely, so obviously the only other explanation is that they're from another world.

Well, the account being from so long ago, I suspect there's a great deal of exaggeration, some fabrication and a few things not mentioned because they seem too mundane. Fun story, though.