48:05 You know that gives a little bit of credence to it, you know You have to stop and think about it because people back then were not blithering idiots just because it was the Dark Ages. Yeah is a wild story for sure and obviously the more documentation you have for something like that the more Substantiated it can be or especially if the source is kind of official like that of church stenographer or something But those are the stories I like most, the ones that involve interactions between humans and some intelligent non-human creature that we apparently share the planet with. And if you appreciate that angle, I don't know if there's any more interesting story than that of The Green Children Of Wolpitt because that's a story that seems like these kids were around for a long time. Can you tell us this story? Well again, we have the 12th century
49:02 Which actually I said the 1200s so that would have been the 1100s, 12th century. And we have Gervase of Tilbury again the monastic chronicler in England he's called recording this strange account and this is near the town of Wolfpit which is not far from Stonehenge. Hmm Now to go to the end of the story, the story of these children was written down by a nobleman and it was signed by various people. And it was kept at a church and it was available for inspection for anybody who requested to see it. Let's see actually later on, much later on maybe I mean you know dates
49:57 Dates are hard, but I think it was ‑‑ a couple hundred years later it was still there and Gervase went there and read this account. He documented that he saw the written account of And his writing has been conserved. But the original account hasn't been conserved anymore, I mean it was just in some church in England a better part of 1,000 years ago so… You know, there you have it. But there is some documentation. Somebody whose job it was to document things – travel around and make a history – he wrote these things down that I went there and saw the account. Interesting. Yeah. Having at least some basis in our mind that this could be true… Let's go back and think about the story Wolf Pit.
50:59 Is actually more of a boat around a mound or hill and you know it's huge like half a mile in diameter something like that. And one day the fellows were in the field working and they saw these two children with, who looked like everyone else Englishman But they had greenish colored skin and they were stumbling around in the fields, and they were pretty much blinded by the light. So... And they spoke some other language. The Englishmen didn't know what to make of it so they were taken in and They were even brought to the nobleman
51:55 Where are they were given shelter in the house of the nobleman no no woman had other servants like that they were taking care off and one problem that they had with the children is it weren't accustomed to food. And i didn't want to eat anything send this particularly was a problem with the boy they did eat they recognized string beans though. And they didn't need string beans, But the boy after a few months, he just I don't know. I guess he was in shock or something like that but he just didn't want to eat. He clammed up and didn't cooperate and he actually became very sick and he perished. But his sister did not she became very strong and she incorporated herself into normal life She lost her greenish tint to her skin
52:56 Learn english became one of the the crew of the nobleman's house there you know they have mansions they have a whole. a group of servants so she was just one of them and she ended up marrying, and she stayed there her whole life working under the shelter this nobleman. And later on when she spoke good english in everything they finally sat down with third some point and asked what you know where are you from what happened and then this was written down and she told her story
53:37 Some of the things that she mentioned was that she and her brother were from a world, apparently underground. It was a cavernous world That they were on one side of a river where they lived And there was huge pasture land there and there was a river On the other side of the river was a small town This town had lights And that they remember seeing this town very often just from a distance and seeing the lights of this town but they didn't know the town all they knew was their immediate area there were just children and they were in charge of. Shepherding and then at one point they were both it's a very edge of their world where weather was a wall,
54:30 and we know where the ceiling met the ground so to speak. And they heard a bell in the distance, just like our church bell that's mentioned would sound from far off. So they went exploring and as I say, they came to the edge of their world and they poked around and they found some opening there, a cave and they walked through it You know, they were intrigued. They just kept going and even though it was dark they would feel their way around and they just went forward and they got lost but they just kept going upwards that much they knew. They kept going upwards and upwards and she imagined that it was a few days that they went without food but they just kept going upwards and finally yeah! They came to the opening where this mound was above them
55:30 And they came out and they were in the light, and there they were. Wow! Yeah that's all she could say Man... She didn't remember her family down there or anything? Well that's this is all that reaches us nowadays yeah. Yeah man thats so fascinating it's just strange that I guess nobody you know no parent you imagine if your kids go missing you would probably follow the same path or try to But that is such a fascinating story that being from inside would come out and just live in normal life, get married and just always have that strange origin story. Yeah you know I married the girl who came out of the ground who was greener spoke funny language. Just amazing really but back then i think they had more contact with
56:27 With creatures, you know like with leprechauns and I don't know. You hear about trolls. These different kinds of creatures and that they wouldn't go out at night you know? Well there's definitely a lot more folklore and a lot more willingness to accept that back in those days. I guess something has happened to us in the past few hundred years where now we just think anything that seems strange must just be not true Yeah, in the cities you don't run across that very much. Right But I would even go so far as to say that there seems to be some concerted effort to keep people away from these places and this effort has been going on for a long time