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| daib0 | 12 Jan 2016, 01:30 PM Post #1 |
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Thursday, January 12, 1905. : The "East Anglian Daily Times" reported on a wild man, carrying a book with strange writing and speaking an unknown language Stories of wild children and wild men are common in Europe, but usually restricted to Medieval times. An exception to this was the wild man of East Anglia. On 12 January 1905, the East Anglian Daily Times reported the appearance of an unusual man in East Anglia. Wild in appearance, his language was unfamiliar. He carried a book filled with drawings and strange writing which no-one at Scotland Yard was able to decipher, or even identify as to its origin, as they were able to rule out at least a dozen common and uncommon European languages. The drawings were sketches of things the man had evidently seen along his journey. |
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| Owlish52 | 12 Jan 2016, 02:31 PM Post #2 |
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From The Paranormal Guide (link: http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/globster-man-bite-and-wild-men): This was not the only 'wild man' to have been discovered in this area at around this time. Up to ten different wild men were reported in England through that winter. In all cases they seemed out of place, spoke a strange language (and when they could understand english they refused to give an account of where they come from). In a lot of cases these 'strangers' were sent to insane asylums. There were many theories presented concerning where all of these strange people were coming from. One put forward had teleportation as the answer, that these men were teleported from somewhere else, another country, maybe another time, and that the process led them to have several different forms of amnesia. Charles Fort, researcher into anomalous phenomena, stated that for every strange appearance of a person an investigation should be carried out into strangely disappearing persons, that the two could be linked. If that's the case, what is causing people to suddenly disappear and reappear elsewhere? |
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| daib0 | 12 Jan 2016, 08:02 PM Post #3 |
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thanks to SuffolkRoyal for this story ... The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, some time in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen. The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language, and the only food they would eat was beans. Eventually they learned to eat other food and lost their green pallor, but the boy was sickly and died soon after he and his sister were baptised. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be "rather loose and wanton in her conduct". After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from St Martin's Land, an underground world inhabited by green people. The only near-contemporary accounts are contained in William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum and Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicum Anglicanum, written in about 1189 and 1220 respectively. Between then and their rediscovery in the mid-19th century, the green children seem to surface only in a passing mention in William Camden's Britannia in 1586, and in Bishop Francis Godwin's fantastical The Man in the Moone, in both of which William of Newburgh's account is cited. Two approaches have dominated explanations of the story of the green children: that it is a folktale describing an imaginary encounter with the inhabitants of another world, perhaps one beneath our feet or even extraterrestrial, or it is a garbled account of a historical event. The story was praised as an ideal fantasy by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read in his English Prose Style, published in 1931. It provided the inspiration for his only novel, The Green Child, written in 1934. Full details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_children_of_Woolpit |
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| Owlish52 | 13 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Post #4 |
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Not quite a legend (from Wikipedia, link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates) The Fugates, a family that lived in the hills of Kentucky, commonly known as the "Blue Fugates" or the Blue People of Kentucky, are notable for having been carriers of a genetic trait that led to the disease methemoglobinemia, which gives sufferers blue-tinged skin. French-born Martin Fugate, orphaned as a child, settled near Hazard, Kentucky, circa 1820. Because of the remote rural area in which they and other nearby families had settled, there was a very high level of intermarriage between families. His wife Elizabeth Smith was a carrier of the recessive methemoglobinemia (met-H) allele, as was a nearby clan with whom the Fugates intermarried. As a result, many descendants of the Fugates were born with met-H. Descendents with the disease gene continued to live in the areas around Troublesome Creek and Ball Creek into the 20th century, eventually coming to the attention of the nurse Ruth Pendergrass and the hematologist Madison Cawein III, who made a detailed study of their condition and ancestry. Cawein treated the family with methylene blue, which eased their symptoms and reduced the blue coloring of their skin.[7] He eventually published his research in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 1964. As travel became easier in the 20th century, and families spread out over wider areas, the prevalence of the recessive gene in the local population reduced, and with it the probability of inheriting the disease. Benjamin Stacy, born in 1975, is the last known descendent of the Fugates to have been born exhibiting the characteristic blue color of the disease, and lost his blue skin tone as he grew older. It has been speculated that some other American sufferers of inherited methemoglobinemia may also have had Fugate ancestors, but searches for direct links have so far proved inconclusive. There are a number of other references to the Fugate family, and reports of a similarly affected group in an Intuit tribe in Alaska. Edited by Owlish52, 13 Jan 2016, 09:24 AM.
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