The Skin Man

In 1897 there was a family in southern Kentucky that were burnt alive inside of their home while they slept. The mentally handicapped son of the family was accused of getting a local teenager pregnant and the town was out raged. A mob gathered and borded the doors and windows of the mans home as they lit the house on fire. The screams of the family have said to have reached hell and received the power of evil to aid them. All were killed from either smoke inhalation or from being burn alive, all but one; The boy. The fire department was able to save him despite his terrible burns consuming almost all of his skin. The burns had removed his facial features which was able to allow him to live for the mob was unable to identify him.  The doctors were appalled at the boy having survived such terrible burns and knew he was going to die at any moment, but despite the doctors predictions he managed to live. Some say the hate and evil from hell aided him to revenge his family, some think he was a demon born out of the fire to punish the towns people. The doctors needed almost a full bodies worth of skin to replace his but they were nowhere near prepared to sustain such burns. He managed to get bits and pieces of skin from donors but nothing to cover his face so they gave him a porcelain mask. 


Since he couldnt be identified the doctors would just call him "The Skin Man". He would sometimes mumble something every now and again but never spoke clearly. He just stared at the doctors and never moved. The doctors began to notice weird things about the "skin man", he would scream in the middle of the night and when they got to his bed he was silent. Other patients began to complain about the skin man saying that late at night he would stand at the end of their beds. Even though none of the doctors ever saw the skin man leave his bed, enough patients have complained at that at night he would stand silently at the end of their beds pressing his finger to his mouth saying shhhhh....

They restrained him at night with leather straps but still the complaints still came. Thats when things started to weirder. People in town started to complain to the police saying that a man with a pale face would stare into their windows at night, some said that their kids wouldnt go to school because the skin man would stand in the woods and watched as they would walk home. The police were forced to have men stay on watch to make sure that the skin man that they saw wasnt the same as the one in the hospital. The next morning when the doctors came to check on him the skin man as they would every morning the two police men were balled in a corner. The only thing they would say was "We are not forgiven", thats not the scary part, the skin man was still in his bed as if he had never moved.