In Fairfax County, Virginia, the population grew after the Civil War, and eventually, an insane asylum was built around there. The local residents were appalled that the mental institution had been constructed and no one wanted to live nearby. The outrage and concerns were raised in the town and since the local politicians decided not to oppose the public outcry, the institution was finally shut down.
Later on, the county administration transferred the mentally-illed patients to other facilities and in 1904 the process was completed. During the transfer, some of the patients escaped and hid in the surrounding woods and wild forest. These individuals were mentally lost, delusional, dangerous, and irredeemable. Most of them were found except for two men, Marcus Lawster and Douglas Griffen. The local authorities found a trail they believed belonged to them, littered with half eaten mutilated wild bunnies.
The trail led deep into the woods to a tunnel bridge crossing a wide creek. They found Marcus there, hanging from the tunnel entrance. There was a note attached to his foot that said,
“You’ll never find me no matter how hard you try! - The Bunny Man.”
Douglas Griffen was never caught, and the bridge became known as "Bunny Man Bridge."
The legend says that if you walk all the way down the tunnel at around midnight the Bunny Man will grab you and hang you from the entrance of the bridge.
Strange deaths and phenomena have been connected around the Bunny Man Bridge for many years.
There was a young-adult man from Clifton who came upon the Bridge while traveling. Later, he murdered his parents and dragged their bodies into the woods to hang them from the bridge before he killed himself.
In 1943, three teenagers, two boys and a young girl, were at the bunny man bridge for Halloween night. The three youths were found dead, hung from the bridge with their bodies slashed open. All three had notes attached to their feet saying the same thing,
” You’ll never catch the Bunny Man!”
In 2001, after hearing the tale, six local students and a guide searched the area. They found mutilated bunny parts during their search and left the forest after they heard noises and saw figures moving around in the woods...
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