October 28, 2015 - Pittsburgh City Paper

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if you go to the GREEN MAN TUNNEL during a

thanks for your

THUNDERSTORM and honk your horn THREE

help, i know

times, you will see a figure that GLOWS GREEN!

you’re BUSY this

most places have

time of year.

a BOGEYMAN, but the legend of

everybody

the green man is

wants to hear ghost stories.

by EM DEMARCO

in NOVEMBER,

struck by

they ’ll forget

LIGHTNING?

about me until

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

NEXT YEAR!

... was it an

oct. 28, 2015

unique to

wait, was he

ELECTRICAL accident?

because the

... or did

story began

ACID melt his skin?

with the life of a REAL MAN ... and he haunts an abandoned TUNNEL? which

RAY

THOMAS WHITE, 40, archi v is t and historian at

ROBINSON.

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY.

one??

he specializes in local (spooky) folklore ; has interviewed 50 to 60 people about this legend.

BEAVER COUNTY, 1919. to avoid stares, he began walking at night along route 351 between KOPPEL and NEW GAL ILEE.

trolley lines carrying 1,200 and 22,000 volts!

but word spread quickly. people began just a year earlier, a boy was ELECTROCUTED

seeking this lone man out, sometimes gi ving him

at this very bridge -- and died from the burns.

beer or cigarettes. they began calling him CHARLIE NO-FACE.

but on a DARE to check out a bird's nest, 8-year-old RAY ROBINSON began CLIMBING. the electric shock MUTILATED ray's body.

during the ‘50s and ’60s, folks traveled as

at home, ray crafted leather belts, wallets,

as the story of RAY ROBINSON spread from

far as CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS to see CHARLIE

and rubber door mats. he loved radio. he was

BEAVER COUNTY, details changed. parents

NO-FACE.

caring and kind. *

told their kids they met CHARLIE NO-FACE. route 351 could easily be ANY spooky old road.

“in some ways, i t was say, CHEESE!

his INTERACTION

and an

WITH THE WORLD. he

UNDERPASS

was kind of a

could be a

celebrity.”

TUNNEL.

south park

prosthetic

township’s

nose *

GREEN MAN TUNNEL is filled with rock salt!

wait ... why is he called the

GREEN MAN ?

* reported by the BEAVER COUNTY TIMES.

people said he wore GREEN

JACKETS …

but saying his skin RAY ROBINSON died in a nursing home in 1985.

N E W S

+

TA S T E

+

M U S I C

+

this year, on october

GLOWED GREEN

29, ray would have

from the accident,

celebrated his 105 th

that ’s a BETTER

BIRTHDAY.

STORY.

S C R E E N

+

A R T S

+

E V E N T S

+

C L A S S I F I E D S

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