The Green Children

Bunny

On an August afternoon in the year 1887, near the village of Banjos, Spain, some farmers were working on a field when they noticed two children, a boy and a girl, coming out of a nearby cave. They were wearing clothes made of unknown materials, and their skin was green in hue. They addressed to the farmers in a completely unknown language.
This could be the beginning of a fine science fiction adventure, but apparently it is not. Specialists from Barcelona made various unsuccessful efforts to identify the language and analyze the cloth of the children’s suits. Several people, including Ricardo da Calno, a local judge, attempted to remove the green color of the skin, but it was no make up, it was true skin pigmentation. The children’s faces featured Negroid traces, but the eyes were almond-shaped, much like oriental eyes.

For five days they totally refused the food which people presented them. However, by the end, they were offered raw beans and accepted them. The boy, who was extremely weak, eventually expired, but not the girl. She went to work on the judge’s house as a housekeeper. With time her unusual skin color disappeared and she learned some Spanish.

Her answers to the questions posed to her about the children's origins only contributed to augment the mystery. She described the world where she lived: a land with no sun, immersed in permanent twilight. A large river separated this land from another, brilliantly illuminated by sunlight. According to the girl, an unexpected whirl occurred, followed by a terrible blast, and the two children found themselves inside the cave.

The girl passed away five years later, leaving this mystery unsolved.

The green coloration of the skin could be the result of an iron deficiency disease known as chlorosis, which affects especially female adolescents. There have been no reports of this disease since 1910. It is possible that, for superstitious motifs, the children were abandoned inside the cave. However there is no record in any hospital of the area of the existence of such children. The hypothesis of an underground world was also considered, but the descriptions made by the children are not consistent with that theory. Could they be lying? We do not think that way. No child would starve for five days and even die in order to maintain a lie.

By the end of the 19th century, and according to the mythology of the epoch, it was said that these peculiar children came from planet Mars. As no evidence of intelligent life has been found on that planet, this hypothesis was abandoned. Another theory which was formulated is that these children were transported over a fourth dimension of space from their home planet into an Earth cave. Whether this happened or not, we do not know... maybe it is just folklore, maybe it is something more.

bubbles

And where are you from bunny ??

That was actually a very interesting story. Where ya find it ?

Hobbes

The earliest version of this story that I've found is in John Macklin's Strange Destinies, published in 1965... it's far more detailed than the other accounts, and likely the initial source for this particular story. For reasons I'll make clear later, this variant will be examined separately.
Both Macklin's book and Charles Berlitz's book, Charles Berlitz's World of the Incredible but True, give the month of August as being when the children were found; Warren Smith's book, Strange Women of the Occult, only says that the children were found "in the autumn of 1887." And while both Macklin and Berlitz give the source of the location as being Banjos, Spain, Smith never mentions the location of the occurrence; instead, Smith claims that stories of similar children being found also occur in "France... Spain or Germany," which seems to indicate he thinks this occurrence was in none of those three countries. I included his version here because of the correlation in the year given for it's occurrence... all agree it happened in 1887. (By the way, I've found no other indication of similar stories from France or Germany.)
Berlitz describes the children as having Asian shaped eyes; Macklin and Smith both describe the children as being slightly Negroid in appearance with deep-set and almond-shaped eyes.
There is disagreement also on how the children came to be in the cave. Smith gives the version that appears above; Berlitz says that the girl claimed to have been deposited in the cave when she and her "companion" (Berlitz does not state they were siblings, though both Macklin and Smith do) were swept up by a whirlwind and dropped outside the cave where they were found. Macklin quotes the girl as saying (to an un-named villager): "There was a great noise. We were caught up in the spirit and found ourselves in your harvest field."

Reap the net and it will provide bubbles.

I would be more intrested to know..

IS GEORGE BUSH AT THE CENTER OF THE GREATEST AND MOST SECRET PLOT EVER LAUNCHED AGAINST MANKIND? <A HREF="http://
http://www.newage.com.au/ufo/serpent.html&quot; TARGET=_blank>
http://www.newage.com.au/ufo/serpent.html</A&gt;

"Shake the internet Tree and the nuts fall out" - Si.


[This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited 30-09-99).]

Helv

Do you think anyone is going to read all that?

Hobbes

It could happen. I mean they can have green kids in Spain.

Skyclad

Interesting one in one of the papers this morning (the star I think) about a deformed skull that was found in South America a good while back. The structure of the bone is completely different and weighs about half of what an equivalent human skull of the same size should do.

In addition, the eye sockets were shaped like upside down teardrops, and given their size would have meant that the eyes were bulging out from the skull had it been human.

Theyre doing carbon dating and other testing on it at the moment and have some american experts trying to reconstruct the face the way they do with plaster and stuff at the moment.

Should be interesting to watch.

FutureQuakeDood

Wow. That sounds totally mega! Where'd you get that creepy story Bunny? I had to jump under the covers after that one. I especially liked the part about the little boy expiring and the girl not expiring at all. Sorta makes ya think, huh? It adds to the whole mystery. Gandalf thinks its missing a punchline but I don't agree. I think the way it lacks any real point adds to the mystery of it. Like, "Where did Bunny get this story?", "Why does Bunny feel he must share it?", "What is Bunny's theory?", "Why did Bunny not share it?". It's simple, it's a mystery to us all. Except Bunny ;P Nice one dood!!!

Ja mata nej gay,
Futu.

Jedi

I love **** like this. I'm a real Conspiracy freak. Bunny any more like that one.

Canaboid

Anyone who believes all those conspiricy theories is an idiot.
Anyone who refuses to believe any of them is a far greater idiot.

http://www.something4u.com/truth.htm
http://www.altcancer.com/lysis.htm
http://www.canceranswer.com/

This is one that got my attention and I have subsequently done a lot of digging/cross referencing etc.
There appears to be something to it. It's the same as what happened in the 20s in the US with the demonisation and then criminalisation of Marrijuana for purely economic reasons (Dupont and the pharmaceutical industry).
Truth be told, this is bugging the **** outta me. I've tried to write it off as a load of crap but nothing I've found has convinced me it is. In which case it is monsterous. How many of u know ppl dying/dead from cancer ?
I'll say no more for the mo but I would like others to read a bit about it and let me know what they think.

SantaHoe

Yeah I didn't read any of that...
Then why am I posting?

Erisian

Pretty interesting stuff, Bunny...
Ditto the weird skull mentioned by Skyclad.
On the topic of conspiracies, however, the secret ones are intersting, but so are the blatant ones that just don't get talked about much. Prosaic but important...
check out
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-preface.html
for some idea of what I'm talking about. Can be heavy going but absolutely worth it. It's also docused on the American press, but the analysis is applicable pretty much anywhere.


[This message has been edited by Erisian (edited 01-10-99).]