The urban legend of the Bunny Man

 The infamous Bunny Man of Virginia

Every state in the US has their own urban legend. For Virginia, it's the Bunny man. Virginia is one of the oldest states in America, rich in culture and history as well as in unsettling urban legends. 

The legend of the Bunny Man started when in the 1970's one couple decided to go on a drive and when they parked near a bridge, they saw a man in a bunny costume. All of a sudden the man went up to them and started screaming at them to get off of 'his' property. And before they knew it they saw glass shattering so they tried to escape as fast as they could. The woman even saw a hatchet. 

They immediately went to the police station and filed a report. That is when the police started receiving some other reports about a man dressed in a bunny costume. 

Still to this day, it is believed that if one goes near the bridge during Halloween, they will most likely encounter the Bunny Man. And he'll kill them, skin them and hang them from the bridge. 

Few days after the incident, there was construction going on near the site, A security guard was doing his duty, that is when he saw a man hacking at the roof of a nearby house with an axe. The security guard called out to the man and when the man turned around, he saw that the man was dressed in a full bunny costume. But the Bunny Man threatened the security guard to get off of his property or he was going to chop his head off with the same ax.

The guard reported the incident to the police but they couldn't find any evidence of any Bunny Man. That is when the reporters jumped in and started making headlines. This is how the mysterious man dressed in a bunny costume got the name "Bunny Man".

But there are other more terrifying cases. It is said that once 3 boys went near the bridge and they started chanting the name 'Bunny Man'. The next day they were found dead, hanging from the bridge. 

According to another case, once a boy was driving through the bridge with his parents, when he suggested that they should stop there for a while. That is when he killed his family before killing himself. Some say that it was the presence of the Bunny Man that influenced him to do so.

Over 50 different people claimed they saw the Bunny Man, but the police didn't find any traces of him. So everyone started wondering who this Bunny Man really is. So there are many different conspiracies. Different articles and different sources suggest different ones.

Some believe that the infamous mental asylum of Virginia was once traveling through the particular bridge with it's patients in a bus. But the bus had been in an accident and all of the patience died except two. Douglas and Lawrence. So one day the police went to look for them. But they found Lawrence's body hung up in the woods with a morgue note tied up in his toe. And the note said "You will never catch me" and it was signed by the Bunny Man. 

So the police realized it was obviously Douglas and they have to catch him as fast as they can. During that time they started getting a lot of calls from the locals stating that they're finding dead, hanged rabbits everywhere. It seemed like he was eating those bunnies for survival but also because he enjoyed killing them. Now some believe that Douglas was fascinated with bunnies mostly because he murdered his entire family during Easter. That is why he was in the asylum in the first place. 

Now according to some sources the police never caught the Bunny Man. While some others believe that right when they were about to catch him, he ran near the bridge where he was hit by a train. But interestingly enough, they never found his body. 

So, that was the urban legend of the infamous Bunny Man.