In Western Pennsylvania, a terrifying legend spread throughout the 1950s and ’60s of a figure known as The Green Man.
As the story went, The Green Man, also known as Charlie No-Face, would be seen haunting a lonely stretch of road in the Pittsburgh area. He was said to be the spirit of a factory worker who fell into a vat of acid, disfiguring him and causing his spectral form to glow green. Some claimed he would chase away parked teens or possibly stall cars that he touched, thanks to an electrical “charge” he could produce.
Perhaps the most shocking part of the urban legend, however, is that The Green Man really existed — not as a ghost, of course, but as a human man by the name of Raymond Robinson…