The Horrible Story of Green Charlie No-Face (5 pics)

The story of a man known as "Charlie the Faceless" who shone with an ominous green light - this, alas, is not a horror story. Charlie on was actually a real person with a very sad life story.







Residents of Koppel, a small town in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, often went on night excursions to see the Faceless Green Charlie. This urban legend is 100 years old and is transmitted from generation after generation, but few people know the real story of Charlie.



Legend calls him a ghost who walked the highway with glowing green head. It was said that the features of his face faded from--a hard life in poverty. At the same time, many mention that the "ghost", who was feared by countless people, was called "beautiful, kind person."

Faceless Green Charlie's real name was Raymond Theodore. Robinson. He was disfigured due to an unusual accident in childhood.

Robinson was born in 1910. At the age of eight during walks with his sister and friends, he went along with the rest of the children to a bird's nest in a tree next to the abandoned city bridge Morado.



Wanting to take a closer look at the chicks, Robinson climbed a tree. But on along the way, he touched a live wire that was used to supply power to the bridge. The electric shock severely disfigured his face, damaging his nose, lips and eyes. In addition, Robinson lost an arm.

Doctors didn't think Robinson would survive, but he survived, albeit with trauma that changed his life. The urban legend arose after how he, having returned home, began to regularly go out to the night a walk along a quiet section of the highway between Koppel and New Galilee.



He completely changed his life and almost did not appear on the street during the day. out of fear of people's reaction to his appearance. cruel nickname "Charlie Faceless" was given to him due to the loss of facial features, and the nickname The "Green Man" was created because his face glowed in the dark. after a near-fatal electric shock. However, the documentary filmmaker who spent three years researching Robinson's tragic story for the film, holds a different theory. “His nose remained open all his life wound, says Trisha York. - He got infected quite often, and from this turned green along with the whole face.

Robinson stopped taking night walks only in recent years. own life. In retirement, he lived at the Beaver County Geriatrics Center, where he died in 1985 at the age of 74.