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The Bunny Man was a real hatchet-wielder in 1970 Virginia — but the internet turned him into something else entirely

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 29, 2026
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Bunny Man urban legend Virginia origin — KeeferC / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikipedia)

On the evening of October 19, 1970, an Air Force Academy cadet and his fiancée parked near a relative’s house in Burke, Virginia. A man in a white suit with long bunny ears ran from the bushes shouting “You’re on private property and I have your tag number,” then threw a hatc…

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