The Bunny Man – Urban Legend

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode we discuss the creepy and bizarre tale of the Bunny Man. This urban legend originates in Fairfax county, Northern Virginia. This strange story begins in the 1970’s, when several people encounter an ax-wielding man supposedly dressed in a full bunny suit. In the coming weeks suddenly dozens of people reported having encounters with this so called ‘Bunny Man.’ Police searched the woods around the area but could find no trace of who this man was.
Soon the origin story became known to the public which only caused this urban legend to spread further. In the early 1900’s a prison bus transporting mentally insane criminals crashed. One man, guilty of slaying his family on Easter Sunday, escaped into the woods and evaded any police search. Soon the corpses of rabbits would be found hanging from an overpass, a landmark that would later become known as the famous Bunny Man Bridge of Virginia. Through the decades further crimes would be pinned on the Bunny Man, including the murder of groups of teens visiting the bridge on Halloween as a scare.
In the modern day there are dozens of twists and variations on this infamous urban legend tale. Some say the Bunny Man is a wild woodsman wearing rabbit pelts, or a chainsaw carrying lunatic who wears a bunny costume, or a man who snapped and attacks groups of bullying kids who come to his bridge. Local historians and archivist have worked to debunk and find the truth behind this weird story. Is there any legitimacy to this particular urban legend? Was there an actual man wearing a rabbit suit who liked to attack others with an ax? Listen to this episode and hear all about this creepy and disturbing tale and make up your mind!
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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to another episode of Strange Matters
0:25.5	podcast. Here at Strange Matters we discuss anything just outside the
0:29.3	norm ranging from the bizarre and unexplained to the supernatural and the paranormal.
0:34.6	I'm your host Ethan with my co-host,
0:37.1	Sean and Eric.
0:39.3	On this episode, we will be discussing an urban legend unfamiliar to most the legend of
0:44.3	bunny man. Yeah we've had a few requests to do an episode on urban legends so when
0:49.2	Ethan here found this case we just ran with it not only is a pretty weird and an unknown
0:53.6	urban legend but it also takes place in our home state of Virginia not too far
0:57.5	from us. So often with urban legends there's the story and then there's the truth. That's what makes the tale of Fairfax
1:05.5	Virginia's bunny man so eerie and so bizarre and so downright creepy.
1:11.1	This is a pretty creepy story.
1:13.0	So let's get start with the origin of the Bunnyman where this story first started really.
1:18.0	So the story and tale of a so-called Bunnyman began to take place in around 1970, North Virginia.
1:24.0	So the first sighting was by an Air Force cadet named Bob Bennett and his fiance.
1:28.0	So while returning from a late football game, the couple pulled their car into a secluded area so they could
1:33.6	have some alone time. Now how many stories have we heard that start with a couple
1:39.2	and Levers Lane making out unaware what's about to happen. I think it's pretty much the introduction for nearly every crappy horror movie I've ever seen.
1:49.0	Yeah, pretty much, I mean, you know, like the escape lunatic with a hook on the hand or whatever.
1:53.2	So basically what happens to Bob.
1:55.2	So something outside the car gets their attention and before they can even react,
1:58.8	the window beside his fiance just shatters inward.
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