Everything is Green

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Ghost, Supernatural

In this episode, Cristina discuss two stories of green people. The first is the Green Man of Pennsylvania. Also known as Charlie No Face, the green lit ghost can be seeing route 351 and tunnel in South Park Township, PA. One a story is that he was an electrical worker who died in an accident. Another is that he was struck by lightening. In either case, he died and he manifested in a green form. The story goes that he will chase you away or stall you car.

The story is based on the story of Raymond Robinson, a 9 year old boy around 1920, who was severely disfigured climbing up an electric line. Due to bullying, he became a recluse. As an adult, he took to walking at night. He became a local legend and his story eclipsed his actual life, though that's beginning to the change.

The second story is of the Green Children of Woolpit. In the 1000s, during the reign of King Stephen, a trapper checked a wolf pit and found two green children a brother of sister. They spoke a language no one had heard and clothes no one recognized. The trapper decided to make them the local knight's problems.

At first, they only ate beans, but as time went on they learned English and ate a more normal diet. The boy died shortly after he was baptized.

The little girl, then called Agnes, claimed to have come from an underground country called St. Martin's Land where everything was green. They were out herding their father's cattle when they ended up in the pit, though accounts vary as to how. She lived as his servant until she married a man named Richard Barr and moved to another village.

There is the standard theory that they were aliens transmitted to earth by an accident, possibly by the space cows. It's also speculated that they came from the hollow earth. With in the realm of the natural, some people think they had arsenic poisoning, possibly deliberately. Iron deficiency is another theory.

Of interest, there was a village near by called Fornham St. Martin that had a sizeable Flemish population. This would serve as a fine explanation if you could get around the fact that the knight would probably recognize the language, even if he couldn't speak it.

Finally, the story could have been a metaphor for the assimilation of the Welsh culture.

Trivia

 * The longest Bummersville Sometimes to date.
 * The story of of the Green Man is similar to stories surrounding Ghost Mountain.