The Legend of the Bunny-Man

It always seems appropriate to feature some theme-based, folklore-related post for each holiday. Most are easy to come by like redeeming ghosts on Christmas Eve, dead, angry lovers on Valentine’s Day, and Halloween is a no-brainer because it celebrates every kind of ghost story, folktale, and urban legend. However, Easter has always eluded me, and over the years, I have managed to sidestep it completely. This time is different, though, because I discovered a most frightening legend, but with a little twist. Full disclosure—the tale would not have much to do with the Easter holiday if it were not for the mythical mammal involved mostly because it originated in October of 1970—This is The Legend of Bunny-Man of Fairfax County, Virginia. 

You can take a ride with me and see it for yourself on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/DNfJmPZoO4g

You can find my books on Amazon: https://amazon.com/Jannette-Quackenbush/e/B009RN009M

• “Man in Bunny Suit Sought in Fairfax” (October 22, 1970)

• “The ‘Rabbit’ Reappears” (October 31, 1970)

• “Kooky "Bunny-Man" Keeps Virginia Officers Hopping Beckley Post Herald, The Raleigh Register (Beckley, West Virginia) October 31, 1970

• “Bunny Man Seen” (November 4, 1970)

• “Bunny-Man Has Hatchet in Virginia” The_Cumberland News October 31, 1970

• “Bunny Reports Are Multiplying” The Washington Post, Times Herald November 6, 1970

• “Boo! It’s the Bunny Man!; 30-Year Legend Still Spooks Visitors to Fairfax County Bridge”: [FINAL Edition] Oldenburg, Don. The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C]. October 31, 2003: C.01.

• Fairfax County Public Library Historian-Archivist Brian A. Conley

Bunny images: RyanMcGuire, LynnB, zizwix

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