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.
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A R T S
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