(NOTE: As I said in a previous thread, I'll continue my explanation of "Bunny Man Bridge" here, as Spirit Child has mentioned it
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The bridge itself was built as a bridge for railroad tracks, named Fairfax Station Bridge. It was constructed back in the mid-1800s from what I gather. There used to be an asylum (AKA a nut house) in Clifton, buried in in the woods to keep the convicts at a distance from the civilians. Of course, the assylum was built much later (don't have the exact year).
Supposedly, civilians complained that even the Clifton asylum was too close for their comfort, as they didn't want to risk convicts getting loose in their town, feeling it wasn't secure enough.
The convicts were to be transported to Lorton Prison Facility after a petition was passed to build a new Asylum/Prison.
As the story goes, bus transporting some convicts of the asylum crashed and most of the loonies escaped into the woods. They were all found and recovered after a 4-month search, all but two.
During the search, they would find dead and half-eaten rabbits that were dismembered in horrific, unanimalistic ways that could only be done by man by the bridge, earning the rabbit-killer the nickname "Bunny Man".
Later on, they found one of the two escapees, dead by the Fairfax Station Bridge, supposedly with handmade tools in his hands. They didn't really care how he died, just that he was "stopped" and apprehended, thinking they'd caught the Bunny Man.
After some time, random appearances of mauled rabbits stopped abruptly, so in April of 1905, they gave up their search for the remaining unfound convict, assuming he was dead, if not fled the state.
Come October people started seeing dead bunny's reappearing out of the blue, and starting to fear the unseen. Halloween Night came around, and as usual a bunch of kids had gone over to the Bridge that night to drink and do what ever kids their age in the 1900s did.
Midnight came around within minutes and most of the kids had left, only three of them remained at the bridge.
They were all found dead the following morning. They had their throats slashed, multiple stab wounds in the mid-section, and to top it off, were hung by their necks in the trees around the bridge, dangling just over the road cars would passed by in the daylight hours.
To wrap this up now, the legend has it that the killings would continue every Halloween night at midnight; if someone actually stayed at what's now nicknamed "Bunny Man Bridge", it is reported they would either disappear, or worse, be killed and hung in the same way by next morning.
Personally, I don't believe there's still killings going on to this day. I DO believe in the original killings back when the legend was born, when Bunny Man could logically still be alive, and I do believe the soul of the Bunny Man still lingers there.
Also the fact that it all happened on Halloween with every attack seems a bit too unbelievable for my tastes, unless Bunny Man always had a calendar at hand. XD
Supposedly, mauled rabbits are still found occasionally, but honestly, anyone could maul a poor rabbit just to continue the ghostly story. Haunted? I think so. Deadly? Doubtful.
I would go there at Halloween with some willing friends, just to have the experience of being there.
(GEEZ, Depsycho makes incredibly long posts!!!!
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by the way should I make this a new thread or just keep it here?? I haven't found a thread dedicated to Bunny Man Bridge yet. It IS an interesting ghost story after all.)
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