Anyone growing up in the Pittsburgh area heard about the monster of Beaver County, Charlie No-Face, eventually.
Charlie was actually a man named Ray, who had been seriously injured by electricity as a child. And because of his serious injuries he developed a habit of walking along Route 351 in Pennsylvania at night, so that he could be outside in the world without being seen. But occasionally people did see him, and that’s how the legend was formed.
Kids at the time drove around hoping to see Charlie No-Face, and some did, including author Wil Fulton's father. He discovered that Ray was just a nice guy who enjoyed a good beer, and loved to smoke. The only thing Wils father could say, “is that he was sorry he was ever scared of the man in the first place.”
According to documentarian Tisha York he earned the “green man” moniker from something a bit more gruesome than working at a power plant, "His nose was basically an open wound his entire life," she said. "It would get infected quite often and that would make it turn green."
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