Penn the legend of the Faceless Charlie, who turned the truth

On the outskirts of Pittsburgh, you can find an abandoned train tunnel, covered with graffiti and filled with technical salt. It was built in 1924 for the needs of the miners, and in 1962 ceased to be used and forsaken.

Scary urban legend

Locals to this day call him a Faceless Tunnel Charlie. Early Teens would often come here at night, turn off headlights of a car and called the mysterious Faceless Charlie, who, in their opinion, could appear out of the pitch darkness and to death to scare them. Sounds like a typical urban legend, which arose on the ruins of the dilapidated industry. However, this story is, surprisingly, partially true.

It is believed that in the dark in the tunnel and nearby roads arises a mysterious man, entirely devoid of individuals. Many argue that this prizrakk, walking dead, madman, or even a demon from hell. Teenagers whisper that Faceless Charlie seeks to catch up with everyone you meet at this late hour, and the victim of the monster, they say, awaits the unenviable fate. Seeking thrills young people still occasionally come here tonight hoping to meet a Faceless Charlie, but she'll never find it.

The man without a face left this world over three decades ago. He wasn't crazy, a murderer or a Ghost. This man with the sad fate's name was Raymond Robinson.

The real story of the Faceless Charlie

Raymond was born in October 1910 in beaver County, Pennsylvania, and grew as a normal child. The boy's father died when he was only seven, but our hero's mother Lulu soon married the brother of her deceased husband. Two years later, Raymond's life changed forever. The boy and his friends playing on the tram bridge, I noticed a bird's nest on a pole with high voltage wires. Our hero decided to get it and climbed up.

There Raymond accidentally touched 22000-volt cable, receiving a huge electric shock. Accident threw in the way, and he fell on the bridge with terrible burns on his head and body. The doctors believed that the boy would not survive, but a miracle happened. However, the life of a young American is unlikely now could be called miraculous. He was covered with scars and lost his left hand.

The face of Robinson, struck with electricity, completely burned. Raymond lost both his eyes and nose, and his lips are swollen and twisted. Becoming a hermit, the teenager started making mats, belts and wallets to financially help his mother and stepfather-uncle. Eventually the family moved to live with relatives in Pittsburgh. Robinson refused to leave the house in the daytime, so as not to frighten by their appearance neighbors. Over time, however, he ventured to go out after sunset. Our hero began to take long night walks along the roads and often passed through the aforementioned tunnel.

Being blind, he has stepped one foot into the roadway and the other on the road in order not to get lost and not get hit by a car.

As a Faceless Charlie react

Someone once remarked Raymond, and most likely, unhappy frightened the life out of a random counter. So, probably, was born the legend of a terrible Faceless Charlie. Soon, however some residents of Pittsburgh realized that the man without a face exists in reality, the truth is not for anyone of the danger. Moreover, the citizens often stayed and talked to the man.

He willingly conversed with residents of the town, and were treated to beer and cigarettes, which they presented to him. Those who were familiar with Raymond, described him as incredibly friendly and polite person. Unfortunately, acquired deformity Robinson scares away many people, and impressionable youth about him spread various nasty rumors.

However, despite all the negative attention and ridicule, the man continued his night motiony. He was lonely and wanted to communicate with someone outside of his family members.

The popularity of our hero reached its peak in the sixties of the last century, when the local roads were built at night the whole congestion of cars, people wanted to have a look at this semi-legendary personality, talking to her and something to eat.

The last days of the Faceless Charlie

With the approach of old age Raymond became increasingly rare to walk around at night, and many residents of Pittsburgh again began to treat him like some kind of phantom, from time to time occur on dark roads and disappearing without a trace. In 1980-e years a man moved into a local nursing home.

June 11, 1985, he died there at the age of 74 years. Raymond was buried beside his father, just a few hundred meters from the bridge, where our hero met as a child, his tragic fate.

Researchers of urban folklore say that the story of Robinson is a clear example of how real events become myths, acquiring supernatural, scary, and overly exaggerated details. Practical – mysticism that people somehow love it...

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