The New England Faceless People are a group of individuals who, along with their elderly caretaker, are said to inhabit a dilapitated farmhouse on an unspecified backwoods road in the rural community of Monroe, Connecticut. Although individual accounts of the faceless people are incredibly rare, they have nonetheless become a very popular urban legend in the annals of Connecticut folklore.[1]
Story[]
According to the story, the faceless people are a group of deformed humans who, through one reason or another, lack any discernible facial features. To be more specific, their eyes are vestigial like those of many blind cave fish, covered by a layer of skin that makes them useless. Their noses are merely a small bump with no nostrils, and their only real facial features are their small lipless mouths. Due to lacking a sense of sight, they maneuver around their ramshackle home by touch and by sound, which they detect through small holes where their ears should be. The faceless people live with their aforementioned elderly caretaker, who reportedly chases away snooping kids with a kerosene lantern in hand.
Numerous rumors have spread throughout the town, and by extension the Internet as a whole, about the origins of the faceless people. Some believe that their deformities are due to excessive inbreeding while other have gone so far as to accuse them of being stranded extraterrestrial entities. It is also entirely possible that the legend is purely that, a tall tale spread by local youths as part of a rite of passage. No actual photographs of the faceless people exist nor does video footage.