Bunny Man

The Bunny Man is an urban legend that originated from two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970, but has been spread throughout the Washington, D.C., and Maryland areas.

The first incident was reported on the evening of October 19, 1970, by U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Robert Bennett and his fiancée, who were visiting relatives on Guinea Road in Burke.

The second reported sighting occurred on the evening of October 29, 1970, when construction security guard Paul Phillips approached a man standing on the porch of an unfinished home, in Kings Park West on Guinea Road.

Phillips said the man was wearing a gray, black, and white bunny costume, and was about 20 years old, 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall, and weighed about 175 pounds (79 kg).

[6] In it, user "Timothy J. Forbes" claimed the Bunny Man was a convict named Douglas J. Grifon, who escaped to a railroad overpass while being transported to a new facility by bus in 1904.

The story proceeds to chronicle a series of grisly, almost supernatural murders committed at Bunny Man Bridge, most occurring decades before the officially documented sightings.

[6] Not only did the stated murders never happen,[8] but key institutions mentioned - such as the Old Clifton Library, allegedly the source of the author's information - never existed in the first place.

[12] A variant of the story appeared as an urban legend in England: some detainees in Wembley police station were said to have been beaten up in their cells by an assailant dressed in a bunny mascot costume.