"A Crazed Killer stalks the night. Wearing a Bunny Suit!" Topic

We get our own crazed killer…

A colleague at work is sort of an urban archeologist— he likes to collect little weird legends and such and impart them on to whomever will listen. Recently, he told me about the leged of THE BUNNYMAN, Northern Virginia's own crazed killer urban legend! Yes, we have our own maniac (sob! We've arrived!) Here's the rub— he stalks couples parked in cars WEARING A WHITE BUNNY SUIT and wielding a giant axe. His intention is to skin the unfortunates, and hang them from his lair, the infamous Bunnyman Bridge in Fairfax County.

Now, if you know me (even a little bit), you'll know I'm not the kind of guy to ignore a great story like that. So I did a little digging and with the help of my work colleague I managed to flesh out what the story is really about and where it all comes from. The truth is pretty itneresting— it's really two stories blended into one great urban legend.

With the help of a map, and a little bit of common sense, I actually discovered the dreaded Bunnyman Bridge, too! Of course, I had to visit at night, and did I make a startling discovery!

Part one: link

Part two: link

Enjoy.. if YOU DARE!!!!!!!!

Now I KNOW I'm going to break out my Pooka figure that Hairy Haggis made me! I need to have more crazed giant bunnies in my games…

Excellent story!!! I'll pass it along to my son as he has a keen interest in urban legends and cryptozoology. I'm willing to bet he's already heard it. We have a couple of books called Haunted New England and Haunted U.S. that are full of these kinds of stories…..hmmmmm now that you mention it HALLOWEEN IS just around the corner LOL.

AND I have a bunny suit. Really. No connection, of course…

I am in Arlington, will have to check this out!

But who makes models of bunny-suited men waving axes?

Griefbringer

Ral Partha made an armored rabbit with an axe back in the day. May still be available from IWM.

His cleaning bills must be horrendous.

Not if the bunny suit is sprayed with water repellent.

"Legend of Bogey Creek" anyone?

That bridge is less than four miles from my house.

I remember hearing those stories in the media at the time, and reading them in the Washington Post. My mother and I got a great laugh out of them.

And I have an alibi.

I love that. There has got to be a game in that.

occultwars.com

Walt,

If you would please post a picture of the "Harvey" I did for you? Please, I was in such a rush to finish him I neglected to take a picture of my precious bunny for my portfolio.

If you can, take a picture of the foot prints that go with "Harvey" that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

As always at your service,

Colonel Hairy Haggis

I grew up in that area and remember that as kids, we were terrified of the BunnyMan.

There also was the Goat Man, and the Moth Man.

The swamps of Northern Virginia/Southern Maryland are fraught with danger. :)

Griefbringer wrote, "But who makes models of bunny-suited men waving axes?"

In 18mm?

What are the chances the Bunnyman has college eligibility remaing and could he play forward for the Terrapins? I think a crazed axe wielding giant bunny guy would be ideal under the basket to keep opponents out of the lane.

Bunnies aren't just cute
Like everybody supposes.
They got them hoppy legs
And twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for
Anyway?

Bunnies, bunnies,
It must be bunnies!

Or maybe midgets.

Anya, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling"

There also was the Goat Man, and the Moth Man.

The Mothman legend is also SOMEWHAT local to me.. I believe he showed up in West Virginia and Ohio. Now that's a chilling story. Someday I want to head out to the town in West Virginia that had the "mothman visitations".

The Goat man, that's a New Jersey story, isn't it?? Tell me more!

Walt

I want to state that it's mere coincidence that the Bunnyman incidents ceased when I left VA.

Walt in a Bunny suit, uummnnnnnn, does Hugh Hefner know that Walt wears a Bunny suit?

Walt in a Bunny suit, uummnnnnnn, does Hugh Hefner know that Walt wears a Bunny suit?

Not THAT kind of bunny suit. And I was living on a very small Aleutian island when the bunny suit incidents happened. I have a rock solid alibi…

Uh hi humans we're Marcus and Robin, Jim McDaniel's house rabbits and while he's painting we've taken over the computer so you can hear our version. The "so-called" killer rabbit with an ax really came from a secret government project to breed the world's largest rabbit, please don't ask us why your government would do it but then again you humans do do a lot of things we rabbits can't figure out.

Anyway the result of all this was the world's largest white rabbit a peaceful soul named Miss Jane Austen, who accidentally kicked down the building in which she was living at the time and escaped. Anyway your government was too embarassed to admit to this project to publicly search for her. The plan was for any reports of huge rabbit sightings to be investigated as locals getting really drunk on their bad moonshine. However someone raised raised the point that the locals in northern Virginia would probably try to hunt it down. To give the rabbit a fighting chance, the Central Intelligence Agency came up with the Killer Rabbit armed with an ax cover story.

Faced with a killer bunny would you report it to the authorities and get locked up with humans who think Elvis and Marilyn Monroe live next door to you or try to take on this killer Lagomorph, (Monty Python were bribed by the CIA to include references to a killer bunny in their first movie heighten the public fear of killer bunnies)?

Rumors currently passing around our litter box has it Miss Jane Austen has figured out how to pass for human and is currently safely living among you under the name "Martha Stewart or maybe Angelina Jolie."

Thanks for your attention and hope this helps

Marcus and Robin

Well, as horrific as it sounds, you just can't top the Enema Bandit that terrorized the University of Illinois back in the 70's.

Apparently, that enema bandit guy isn't a legend, though: link

What a pain in the butt!

No he wasn't. I was carrying the mail on campus when he hit one of the apartments on my route where 6 women lived in. He broke in in the middle of the night, tied one of the girls up, gave her an enema, sat her on the toilet and left, leaving the other 5 girls asleep and unknowing. The girl he assaulted quit school. He did this for nearly ten years. Frank Zappa even wrote a song about him called "The Illinois Enema Bandit". One of the local headshops had a bumper sticker that said "S**t on the Enema Bandit". Rumors were rampant that he was he son of a local doctor with political clout that kept his name secret and kept him out of jail. Supposedly he was institutionalized for the problem, the attacks being few and far between, but they never cured him and every time he got out he went out and did it again.

So your telling me that the Bunnysuited killer is a myth? How disappointing. Of course truth is stranger than fiction.

Ouch, just read the wiki entry.

Not much scarier than a giant rabbit with an axe who wants to give you an enema…

He seemed pretty harmless when I saw him standing on a San Francisco street corner in the middle seventies. You just never know.

JackWhite