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The original was posted on /r/unresolvedmysteries by /u/Campanerut on 2024-01-19 18:30:33+00:00.
Have you ever heard of the The Bunnyman? It is an urban legend in Fairfax Virginia where a maniac dresed as a Bunny hunt people near the colchester overpass. Depending on the version, he is either a man or a spirit.
This legend is based on true incidents, in one, a couple told the police that, while in a car near Guinea Road, they saw a man in a white bunny suit saying they were trespassing. The man had an hatched and smashed one of the car's window with with, but thankfully the couple escaped and they weren't hurt.
In the second incident, a police officer saw a man in a white and black bunny costume with an axe chopping the column of a house. The "Bunny" said that he was trespassing and if he didn't get out of there, he would burst the poilice officer in the head. The Officer went to his car to get his gun but the man in the bunny suit had dissapeared.
If you research the legend, you will see that the most common version is that an escaped maniac called Douglas J. Griffon murdered a bunch of teens in the Colcherster overpass. He is still human in one of the verions, and the other he is a spirit, but this legend has prove to be false, there wasn't a maniac called Douglas. The two incidents mentioned were tought to be the only two sightings of the bunnyman, until last year.
Last year a show called "John Carpenter suburban screams" was released on Peacock, 3 of the episodes are about true crime, and one of them is about the Bunnyman
There were more reports about the Bunnyman. In one, a person said on the show that a person told him that when he was a paperboy in the 70's, he saw a man in a bunny costume dragging an axe, he had nightmares for years. In another, this same person heared a story from 3 people who said they were attacked by the Bunnyman on the colchester overpass on October 31th 1972, and thankfully, everybody survived. Another witness on the show said that when he was a pre teen, he ans his friends where on a house in the woods where they were attacked by the Bunnyman, everybody survived. The witness also said how much more people claimed to have seen The Bunnyman, and in one night, police reported over 50 calls about people who saw the Bunnyman.
I know that some of these reports seems false, but there are many reports of people who claimed to have seen him, and the couple even have the hatched that The Bunnyman droppd on the car when he smashed the window. The general concensus is that there really was a Bunnyman, it even gave origin to an urban legend.
I really think that he was real, but he wasn't trying to kill people, just scare them, his motivations seem to be that the area was becoming urban, and he couldn't cope with that. He used the Bunny costume as a symbol of the rabbits that where being harmed with the urbanization
If someone knows more facts bout what really happened in the 70's, please, tell me.