Zelesnak also remembers hunting one day when a man ran out of the woods in panic, saying, “Don’t go in the woods, there’s a monster in there.”

“I said, ‘It’s probably just Ray,’” Zelesnak said. He found Robinson sitting under an apple tree and engaged him in conversation.

“Those were the few times I saw him in daylight,” he said.

Eugene DiSimone, 90, of Ellwood City remembers looking for Charlie No-Face with his friends as a teen.

“Kids were curious,” DiSimone said, adding ruefully, “If that accident happened to him today, he would have had a better life.”

Frank Secich of Sharon plays in the rock band “Deadbeat Poets” that features a song, “The Green Man” on a compact disc. Secich said the song, being played in Japan, is about Robinson.

Secich and his friends drove to Koppel in the late 1960s to find Robinson after hearing the Green Man lore, he said.

They would stop at a Halloween haunted house in Mahoningtown, where a character named “Doc” carried a pitchfork, and Doc’s assistant, “The Count,” had a club foot and looked like Dracula.

“From there we would go to find Ray,” Secich recalled. “We found him on Route 351, and he would sit up on a hill. The first time I saw him I talked to him. He was a real friendly guy.”

After that, they said, they took him Stroh’s beer and cigarettes, which he would hide in the woods because he wasn’t supposed to have them.

“I wrote the song about him,” Secich said. “It’s one of the best songs I’ve ever written, actually.”