Status: Explained — a county historian found only two minor 1970 incidents; the murders in the popular story did not happen.
About the pin: The real 1970 incidents were in nearby Burke; the legend centres on the Colchester Overpass.
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The Bunny Man is an urban legend that began with two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970. Most versions involve a man in a rabbit costume attacking people with an axe or hatchet, and most stories are set around the Colchester Overpass, near Clifton, nicknamed “Bunny Man Bridge.”
Fairfax County library historian Brian Conley found two documented reports, both in Burke. On October 19, 1970, a couple said a man in a white suit with bunny ears threw a hatchet through their car window. On October 31, a security guard said a man in a bunny costume chopped at the porch of an unfinished house. No one was ever identified, and more than 50 people soon claimed to have seen the “Bunny Man.”
The most widely told version, which describes a convict and a series of murders, was posted online in 1999, and Conley says all its specifics are false. The overpass attracts so many Halloween visitors that since 2003 local authorities have controlled access around the holiday, so please do not go looking for it.
Sources: Wikipedia: Bunny Man
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