Monsters are Real!

It’s difficult to conceive of any monsters that might be affiliated with Easter, unless we consider Virginia’s bizarre Bunny Man. Most likely it is an urban legend that may have sprung out of some inexplicable encounters with a mysterious being. Irregardless, it is a legend worth repeating. Just west of Washington DC lies the tiny, little hamlet of Fairfax Station. Teenagers from the area are familiar with rumors of a diabolical being that belongs in a category all its own. According to local historians, during October of 1970, there were several people near wooded areas who, encountered an ax wielding fiend; a man dressed in a bunny suit no less! The attacks made the local newspapers and eventually a story surfaced about an escaped mental patient who had murdered his entire family on Easter. Soon after, the bodies of skinned rabbits began to appear around the area, left conspicuously hanging on fences. There is even an old stone, railroad bridge that local teens dare to brave around Halloween. Allegedly, this is the primary haunt of the Bunny Man and he has been known to jump on the roofs of unsuspecting cars as they pass underneath. I suppose the only connection between Bunny Man and cryptozoology is that the general area has produced occassional Bigfoot reports, and the nearby town of Bowie, Maryland has a similar legend about a shaggy Goat Man. The relationships are ambiguous, unless we consider that Bigfoot creatures are often associated with various anthropomorphic bogeymen in urban legends all over North America. But, for now at least, we must leave the Bunny Man in that fringe region known as the goblin universe.