We end where we began: 12th-century Woolpit, England, where there suddenly appeared two green children who can't have existed but sound like they should have. Whom 17th-century writers like Robert Burton and Francis Godwin, intoxicated by their own era's discovery of alien worlds in the sky, tried … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
“Balmiston X-Ray O’Rune” – Green Giant from Mars (Part 8 of a series)
Short post this time, and a fairly hasty one. (It's been a heavy week for me.) But the story of Balmiston X-Ray O'Rune merits at least a footnote in our inquiry into the theme of mysterious green entities--"little men," children, giants, saints--sometimes flying UFOs, sometimes not. Of course … [Read more...]
Al-Khidr – The “Green One” of Islam (Part 7 of a series)
“Little green men” in the UFOs. From the Pope to the Flintstones, they’re everywhere in the popular imagination. Yet they’re seldom actually reported by people who experience close encounters of the third kind, or the fourth. (See my last post, though, for a qualification of this.) Where do they … [Read more...]