I’m not going to give it away, but if you see it or possibly hear it in your head while reading this blog, please give me some form of validation that I’m not the only one who thinks this is funny. When a busload of the prisoners were being transferred to the new location, the … It is possible that one of those remains could have been the abandoned asylum that was shut down. According to my sources there are no documents whatsoever to validate the origins of this legend. The story ends with a challenge for the reader to check with the Clifton Town Library for verification of the facts. He ran across the nearby train tracks as the train was coming and was hit and killed. Two of the inmates, Marcus Wallster and Douglas Griffin, vanished into the woods.
Ten inmates escaped into the woods and after several exhausting months of manhunts eight of the inmates were apprehended. And it is possible that documents could disappear.
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., area. The police suspected Douglas Griffin for the crime and he became known as the Bunny Man. Little Bunny Foo Foo hopping through the forest…Slicing people’s throats and hangin’ em on the bridge…. (2014).
Slicing people’s throats and hangin’ em on the bridge…, The Bunny Man Unmasked – Page 4. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Not only is the location identified, but also the names of several victims and the dates of their murders. Virginia Haunted by Killer Dressed as Giant Rabbit: The Legend of Bunny Man Bridge. (2015, May 18). After the above picture recently went viral, the interwebs wondered if this picture was real or fabricated?
The Legend of The Killer Bunnyman. Anyone under the bridge will have their throats slashed and will be hanged from the bridge.
The interesting thing about the picture above is that it does come from an actual urban legend. Now there have been many tales of teenagers hanging out under the Bunny Man Bridge on Halloween night and found the next day hanging from the bridge. The legend takes place in FairFax County, Virginia. | Mysterious Universe. Retrieved May 30, 2016, from, http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunny4.htm, A.K. There they found Marcus hanging from the tunnel entrance, with a note attached to his foot. Some versions of the story state that the authorities caught up with Mr. Griffin and while pursuing him he was hit by a train. Fairfax residents, displeased with the thought of dangerous lunatics in their midst, petitioned the asylum be shut down. Police reports were made and even some of the local newspapers started chiming in on these mysterious encounters. “They reported seeing some sort of bright light or orb,” Blitz says, “and then in a flash, they’d all been strung up like [the] bunnies … Douglas Griffin was convicted of murdering his family on Easter Sunday which is what landed him in the asylum in the first place. The culprit’s name was Douglas J Griffin. As I’m reading the legend of the Bunny Man I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between the true events of the Bunny man and another piece of folklore that I picked up when I was a kid going to summer camp. The Bunny Man Bridge legend tells of an insane asylum around 1904 in Clifton Virginia, in Fairfax County. If you don’t get out of here, I’m going to bust you on the head”. The legend has many variations; most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume who attacks people with an axe or hatchet. Soon after, skinned rabbits were being found and sometimes hanging on the Colchester overpass. (2015, May 18).
The Strange True Story Behind the Legend of the Bunnyman Bridge. The police figured if they’re not dead by now they would be soon. Virginia Haunted by Killer Dressed as Giant Rabbit: The Legend of Bunny Man Bridge. One of these escapees, Douglas J. Grifon, murdered fellow escapee Marcus Wallster and eventually became the Bunny Man. Phillips reported to police seeing a young male appearing to be in his 20s dressed in a bunny suit carrying an axe. Warning this song is very catchy so I give you my apologies in advance. As Phillips approached this bunny man the man struck a wooden support with his axe on a new house being built and shouted out, “All you people trespass around here. There are some variations of the story that created the origins of this urban legend; however, the main part of the story starts in the early 1900s. Retrieved May 30, 2016, from, http://www.oddlyhistorical.com/2014/04/25/strange-true-story-legend-bunnyman-bridge/, B.S. I’m not going to continue on with it. During the transfer to another facility, one of 15 transport cars crashed and killed most of the party. After his disappearance locals allegedly began to find clearly skinned, half-eaten carcasses of rabbits hanging from trees nearby a bridge overpass locally known as the Bunny Man Bridge. In 1904, an asylum prison in Clifton was shut down. http://bussongs.com/songs/little-bunny-foo-foo.php. An insane asylum was built deep in the wilderness of a nearby town called Clifton. One of the transports crashed and the guards and some of the inmates died.
Retrieved May 30, 2016, from http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunny4.htm, A.K. Here is where I’m starting to smell the presence of good old fashioned parenting. This is where it gets a little silly and weird. Another report was made less than two weeks later by Paul Phillips who was a private security guard for a construction site. The Bunny Man Unmasked – Page 4.
There are also no police reports confirming that there have been people found hanging dead on this notorious bridge.
Another variation stated that the authorities found Mr. Griffin’s dead body lying on the train tracks that run over the Colchester overpass. Ten prisoners escaped, and all were recaptured. (2015, December 22). Towards the end of his leave he spent the evening with his fiance. However it did inspire a “Little Bunny Foo Foo” parody of mine.
As the population increased the fears of living near an insane asylum arose and eventually a petition was signed by the populus of the county to have the inmates transferred to another facility known as the Lorton Prison. (2015, December 22). Retrieved May 30, 2016, from, http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/05/beware-of-the-bunny-man/, Mckendry, D. I. Scare your kids by telling them ghost stories to prevent them from doing stupid things, which inevitably causes them to do those stupid things when they become teenagers. Beware of the Bunny Man! Posts tagged Douglas J Griffin. While reading about these true encounters the Little Bunny Foo Foo song started to play in my head. The Strange True Story Behind the Legend of the Bunnyman Bridge. In 1970, a series of the Bunny Man sightings started to pop up.
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All were found except one inmate, Douglas J. Grifon. They nicknamed him “the bunny man.” The police tracked him down, but not before a struggle where they lost him again.
The Origins of Saint Patrick’s Day. Beware of the Bunny Man! First Legend: Douglas Grifon – the Bunny Man There is a very famous legend of Bunny man which has been told and retold a couple of times. After the Civil War, the population started to grow in FairFax County.
This went on for a while. Retrieved May 30, 2016, from http://www.blumhouse.com/2015/12/22/virginia-haunted-by-killer-dressed-as-giant-rabbit-the-legend-of-bunny-man-bridge/, Pingback: The Haunting Tale of the Bunny Man Bridge – Historical Paranormal Events. The man tossed the axe through the right passenger front window of the car and then skipped off back into the dark woods.
The local authorities found a trail made by the two men; it was littered with half eaten mutilated bunnies. Then one Halloween night, a group of kids were hanging around the bridge. I extended my research for this blog just to see if there are any correlations between the folklore of the “Bunnyman” and “Little Bunny Foo Foo” and there are none. Even to this day there are sightings of a man in a bunny suit near the overpass or somewhere along Guinea Road. Eventually the body of Marcus Wallster was found hanging from the overpass. in Legends & Folklore on October 18, 2018 January 26, 2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email. The trail led deep into the woods to a tunnel crossing a wide creek. The first report was made by an Air Force Academy cadet Robert Bennett who was on leave in Virginia and was visiting his uncle. Retrieved May 30, 2016, from http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/05/beware-of-the-bunny-man/, Mckendry, D. I. However it is pretty common to find abandoned buildings or remains of buildings in the backwoods of Virginia. (n.d.).
While searching for my great white whale of a tale, I came across an urban legend with a title that alone gave me a smirk on my face and sparked my curiosity.
(2014). Douglas Griffin was convicted of murdering his family on Easter Sunday which is what landed him in the asylum in the first place.
They were sitting in a car in the 5000 block of Guinea Road when a man dressed in a bunny suit came out of the bushes wielding an axe shouting out, “You’re on private property and I have your tag number”. Most of them were found, except Marcus Lawster and Douglas Griffin.
The inmates managed to evade the authorities long enough to cause the manhunts to be called off. Some versions of the story state that the authorities caught up with Mr. Griffin and while pursuing him he was hit by a train.
The police suspected Douglas Griffin for the crime and he became known as the Bunny Man. Retrieved May 30, 2016, from, http://www.blumhouse.com/2015/12/22/virginia-haunted-by-killer-dressed-as-giant-rabbit-the-legend-of-bunny-man-bridge/.
(n.d.). If you don’t believe me ask a lawyer or a unscrupulous business person. A… Read More. If you have never experienced or heard of this song I have provided a link below. Douglas was apparently eating bunnies to stay alive. The Story of El Caganer and The Defecating Christmas Log, Seriously the Most Scorching Time of the Year “The Dog Days of Summer”, The Haunting Tale of the Bunny Man Bridge – Historical Paranormal Events, Follow The Weird and The Odd on WordPress.com.
Retrieved May 30, 2016, from http://www.oddlyhistorical.com/2014/04/25/strange-true-story-legend-bunnyman-bridge/, B.S.
There were over 50 reports of sightings of the Bunny Man in the 70’s. On Halloween at the stroke of midnight while you are hanging out under the Colchester overpass, which is also nicknamed the Bunny Man Bridge, a flash of light will appear. I will leave the rest of it up to your imagination. Except one – after which residents noticed a disturbing pattern of cl…
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