The Green Man’s tunnel in South Park Township, PA was built in 1924 as the Piney Fork Tunnel to service coal mines along the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Peters Creek Branch and has been Abandoned since 1962.
The man with apparently eerily-glowing green skin was said to wander the roads at night. He was said to be actually friendly. His name was Raymond Robinson aka The Green Man.
Ray was born in October 1910 and died in 1985.
There are many stories that have been past down from generation to generation about the story of the Green Man and the electrical incident.
One story says that he was with some friends on Morado Bridge near 4th street when they spied a bird’s nest high in the girders carrying the overhead wires.
Ray was dared to climb up to it and he did.When he reached the top, he made contact with the wire carrying 22,000 volts of electricity.The force of the jolt threw him down to the bridge with severe burns on his face and body.Doctors at Providence Hospital didn’t expect him to live,but by some miracle, he did.
A boy less than a year earlier,was killed by the wires.
Because of this innocent, Ray's left arm was amputated at the elbow and his body riddled with scar damage. He lost his nose and eyes, and his mouth was bloated and twisted.
Another story on which people actually think that the tunnel is haunted, is that some say that Ray was an electrical worker who was in an accident that melted his face and killed him. His green apparition has been said to have been seen late at night at the tunnel.
Robinson's story has been passed on so many times that his name and his real history have been overshadowed by the ghost story that grew out of them.
Ray lived with his mother and chose to take his walks in the late hours of the night along State Route 351 between Koppel and New Galilee with one foot on the pavement, the other on the gravel. It is said that he used a walking stick to help him feel his way through the darkness after the incident.
In the 1960s, local tourists would drive along his road in hopes of meeting him during his night walks, creating popularity towards him.
It is said that he would pose for pictures, often in exchange for beer or cigarettes.
By the 1980s, Ray ventured out for his walks less and less. Ray then moved into the Beaver County Geriatric Center (now called Friendship Ridge Nursing Nome) in Beaver, Pennsylvania.
It was there where Ray passed away on June 11, 1985, at the age of 74. He was buried back in Beaver Falls at Grandview Cemetery, just a short distance from the location of the bridge where the incident happened.
Robert Littell, the Beaver Falls boy who was fatally burned on the bridge nine months before Robinson, is also buried there.
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA