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Send us Fan Mail The Green Children of Woolpit: The Children Who Came From Somewhere Else In 12th-century Suffolk, something very strange was said to have happened. According to medieval accounts, two children appeared near the village of Woolpit. They were dressed in unfamiliar clothing, spoke a language nobody understood — and their skin was reportedly green. The children were taken in and cared for, eventually learning to eat ordinary food and, according to the accounts, losing their unusu...

Send us Fan Mail In 1184, hundreds of nobles gathered in the city of Erfurt, Germany, for what should have been an ordinary political meeting. Instead, they fell through the floor. The gathering was being held on the upper level of a medieval building above a latrine pit. When the wooden floor collapsed beneath the weight of the assembled nobles, dozens of men plunged into the waste-filled pit below. Many were crushed beneath the others. Others drowned in the sewage. What began as a political...

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Send us Fan Mail In February 1957, a young boy's body was discovered abandoned in a cardboard box in the woods of Philadelphia. He had no name, no missing person report, and no one came forward to claim him. For more than sixty-five years, he was known only as The Boy in the Box—one of America's most heartbreaking unsolved mysteries. Despite one of the largest identification campaigns in Philadelphia's history, countless theories, psychic investigations, and decades of detective work, the lit...

Send us Fan Mail In 1931, an ordinary farmhouse on the Isle of Man became the centre of one of Britain's strangest paranormal mysteries. The Irving family claimed they were being visited by a mysterious creature that called itself Gef—a talking mongoose with a sharp wit, an endless stream of stories, and a habit of appearing just out of sight. Gef insisted he was "an extra, extra clever mongoose," capable of speaking multiple languages, predicting events, and spying on the neighbours. To some...