a scary urban legend about the bunny man turns out to be true
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Internet and we make it more entertaining a bridge on Colchester Road
in the fairfax county is known as one of the most dangerous locations in all of
northern virginia but not due to any normal fears it's labeled as a dangerous
spot because of its history surrounding the urban legend of the bunny man and as
the legend goes in 1904 there was a mental asylum located not too far from
the bridge and because the residents didn't want mental patients wandering
near their homes they voted to have it shut down and while the patients were
being transported by bus to a nearby prison reports say that the bus swerved
off the road and crashed as the story goes the police were able to locate all
of the inmates except for one the one they didn't catch was Douglas Griffin
not too long after rabbit corpses began popping up all over the woods to which
some believed Douglas was using to stay alive he also would oddly display them
by hanging them from the bridge it's believed that after that incident on one
Halloween night Douglas attacked and killed a group of teens who were hanging
out near the bridge and after he killed the kids they were then gutted and hung
from the bridge in a similar fashion to the rabbits making most people believe
that he was responsible for the murders now critics of the urban legends say
that there was no asylum in that area and the idea of a bus on the road at
that time is pretty far-fetched however most urban legends grow like a
game of broken telephone but all begin with a morsel of truth a man named Brian
Conley who worked as an archivist for Fairfax County was sick and tired of
telling people that they didn't know if the bunny man was real or not so he dove
into the county's history to find the truth and what he found was shocking to
say the least in 1970 a couple had parked not too far from the overpass and
had a scary encounter with the bunny man a man dressed in white with something on
his head began yelling at the couple saying they were trespassing and then
threw a hatchet at their car window of course when we told that something on
his head morphed into bunny ears a second sighting of the bunny man also
appeared two weeks after the incident when a security guard reported seeing a
man yielding a hatchet as he was chipping
away at a port railing as you could imagine these reports soon transformed
into stories that kids would tell each other to strike fear into their friends
during Halloween the mad man soon became a man in the bunny suit who would chase
children through the woods with a hatchet many refused to believe conley
saying that the county must be trying to cover up evidence but if anyone has
taken part in a rumor you'll know how fast the stories can change Conley says
while it's fun to debunk the bunny man legend it's even more fun to believe it
today the bunny man urban legend has spread far and wide with merchandise
bunny man beer and even its own horror movie franchise while he may not have
been wearing bunny ears the idea of a man throwing a hatchet at someone's car
window because they were trespassing is equally terrifying what I want to know
though is what you think about this do you believe the story grew from a simple
incident or is the urban legend of a man with bunny ears disembowelling kids
being covered up by the fairfax county let us know down in the comments below
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