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A faded black-and-white photograph of Raymond “Charlie No-Face” Robinson standing at night on a rural Pennsylvania road. He wears a cardigan and dark glasses with a prosthetic nose attached, revealing his severely disfigured face (no eyes or nose). The dim roadway behind him disappears into darkness, evoking the eerie atmosphere that gave rise to the Green Man legend.

The Real Story Behind “Charlie No-Face”

Sports & Culture, People & PersonalitiesBy userMay 15, 2025

On a moonless summer night in Western Pennsylvania decades ago, a group of teenagers parks on the side of a lonely country road. They kill the engine and nervously honk the horn three times, daring a local legend to emerge from the darkness. According to the story they’ve heard since childhood, a glowing green ghost…

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