Have you heard of Green Man? The faceless man who appears on the streets at night? He lived in Western Pennsylvania in the 1950s and '60s. There are many stories that he had acid on his face, or that he had his face removed by surgery, or that he had been struck by lightning. Whatever it was, people called him Green Man or Charlie No Face. But, as the name implies, he was not really green. His real name is Raymond Robinson. His face burned in an accident as a child.
Stories still linger around him that his face glows green when the light hits at night, and that he scares people who walk the streets of Pennsylvania at night. But many of them are just myths.
Robinson was born on October 29, 1910, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. For the first nine years of his life he was a normal child. He grew up playing with friends and playing tricks. However, on June 18, 1919, his life changed. That day, Robinson and friends went to play at the Newcastle Railway Company Bridge. He climbed a post that carried 11,000 volts of electricity to see a bird's nest. However, he was shocked and suddenly fell to the ground. High voltage shock burned Robinson's face and hands. Once there were only holes where there were eyes and nose. Although his life was restored, his face was completely destroyed. He was forced to live his whole life without eyes, nose or right hand.
But Robinson never tried to push life by lamenting his physical disability. For the next 65 years, he lived in his family home in Koppel, Pennsylvania, making and selling belts, wallets, and doorknobs. He left home only at night so that people would not be frightened by his appearance. It was in this way that the legend of Green Man began to develop. He is nicknamed the "Green Man" because of the popularity of his face turning green when car lights hit him in the night. People who knew that a faceless man was walking on the Koppel-New Galilee road at midnight would come there to see him. But, more often than not, he avoided contact with strangers.
Some people were afraid or cruel to him, but others befriended him and brought him beers and cigarettes at night. Robinson's end was in a nursing home. He died in 1985 at the age of 74. He was buried in Beaver County. But the frightening stories about him continued even after his death. Robinson grew up in the Pennsylvania area with a myth and legend. A tunnel on Piney Fork Road is called The Green Man Tunnel. People claim to see the ghost of that green man in that desolate place.