Scary Stories: The Children of Woolpit

Seated among candles and cobwebs, Vincenzo Larfoff tells of two green children who turned up in the Suffolk village of Woolpit in 1173, treating their appetite for vegetables and the boy's sudden death as signs of an alien invasion. The story collapses when he reveals that the pair were probably orphans of Flemish cloth makers, stained by dye and half-starved from living in the woods, and that the girl simply grew up and went into service. Annoyed that he has been given a dull tale instead of a frightening one, Larfoff storms off, demanding doughnuts in his dressing room.

The segment retells the twelfth-century legend of the green children of Woolpit. Its explanation that they were children of Flemish cloth workers follows historian Paul Harris's theory.