Bunny Man Bridge
During the 1800s, a man went off to hunt for food. Upon return to his home, however, he discovered the mutilated bodies of his wife and child. Immediately, he summoned the sheriff. Since the bodies were so horribly mutilated and there were no other suspects, the husband was sent to a mental institution. Maintaining his innocence, the man vowed revenge. After escaping from the institution, the man took up residence near a bridge. Since the only clothes he owned were those made from rabbits’ skin, he soon became known as the “Bunny Man.” As time passed, children started playing near and around the Bunny Man. When several children came up missing, the authorities were notified. When they reached the bridge, officials saw body parts of the children hanging from trees; they also saw the Bunny Man being run over by a train. Today it is said that one may see body parts hanging from the trees and will hear the Bunny Man laughing.
This sounds like a really cool place. My little brothers have been bugging me to take them there. I think we are gonna go check it outon October 9, 2005!
Comment by Tammy | 10.6.2005 | 8:18 am
DONT GO THERE YOU WILL DIE
DONT GO THERE YOU WILL DIE
DONT GO THERE YOU WILL DIE
Comment by chad | 10.8.2005 | 11:26 pm
ILL BE THERE TO SEE YOU DIE
Comment by chad | 10.8.2005 | 11:27 pm
There is a shack close to the bridge, you can get there by driving up a 45 degree hill off a side road near it. Two friends of mine went there, and found the walls covered in freshly skinned animals. I thought the guys who told me were trying to scare me, until a friend and i went with them… and they ended up being entirely too scared to go back. I could tell they really did see something up there. There is also an old hospital very close to where that is. I cant remember how to get there. It was off a long empty road, one side covered in forest, the other side an open field. But close to the middle of that stretch, there is a TINY break in the forest side where you can drive an SUV. After the bunnyman cabin, we decided to go there instead, figuring we wouldnt get out the car if we were too scared. We drove through the trees for awhile, and unbelievably there stood a four or more story hospital. Completely surrounded by a forest. It looked white with splats of something dark all over it. It was extremely cold and extremely scary. All four of us, including the guys, wanted nothing more than to get the hell out of there. And thats exactly what we did. But Im curious as to what it was and if anybody else knows about it. Maybe its the mental institution that the bunnyman escaped from?
Comment by bridget | 10.10.2005 | 11:33 pm
Been there…done that, and will NEVER do it again! It was after mid night that my friends and I had this great idea to go check it out since we live only a few minutes away. It had been raining and thunder storming all day. But by the time we pulled up to the “driveway” of the shack, the rain stopped. We walked up the path to the shack to find it was covered in animal skin and the foulest stench you will ever smell. Shortly after we arrived at the top of the hill were the shack is located, we all heard something in the woods…so we took off running and screaming down the path, back to the car. As we took off driving down the street we came to the bridge and as I proceeded to drive as fast as I could…my car turned off and coasted to a stop right under the bridge and wouldn’t start. Just then a big roar of thunder and lightening came down and lit up the bridge as we were sitting under it. When this happened all we saw were shadows of body parts hanging from the bridge above us and heard someone laughing. Just then my car started, BY ITSELF!!! I peeled out and will NEVER return.
Comment by Jess | 10.18.2005 | 1:40 pm
That story was completely told wrong. From what was told to me, they didn’t know why he was in the mental institution. They were going to shut the institution down, so they were moving the inmates to Lorton prison. The bus had an accident going up the hill near the bridge and 3 men escaped. 2 were found and the other one was never found. When children came up missing authorities found kids hanging from trees and the top of the bridge. They eventually found rabbit carcasses all over the place, naming him the bunny man.
I will tell you that I lived about 10 minutes from there. A couple of times when my friend and I would go out riding in the late afternoon, through the bridge, on the other side a man would be standing there about 50 yards or so out in the woods. Strange things have happened there, with witnesses to it.. If you like to be scared to death.. go.. otherwise go to the general store..
Comment by Brittany | 10.19.2005 | 10:51 pm
How do you get there ? Im new to the area and want to know the location. Thank You
Comment by chris | 10.21.2005 | 6:30 pm
I would like to go there as well new to the area and not sure how to get there. I live in Manassas
Comment by Stephanie | 10.31.2005 | 1:17 pm
it’s located on Colchester Rd. If you have a Northern Virginia street map book it’s map 20 Grid A8. Some friends of mine and I are going this week
Comment by Stephanie | 11.1.2005 | 8:53 am
Me and some of my friends went there last night…what an ordeal. Got directions off the internet turns out there is two Colchester Rds the one off pope head drive is the right one. Anyways we get there at 2 and the tunnel wasnt very scary and some kids had rubbed faked blood all over the walls. The area was pretty well lit up and wasnt scary at all. We did the whole saying bunnyman 3 times and turned the car off. Nothing happend….disapointed. If you want a good scare go to harpers ferry west virginia and go up to grave yard at the top of the hill….much better then the bridge,.
Comment by Julia | 11.6.2005 | 3:39 am
I want to see something haunted! I am very skeptical of ghosts because I have never seen one. If I ever see one I think I will faint or have a heart attack! I thought that there was a haunted mansion in Roanoke? Has anybody heard about that?
Comment by Lauren | 11.10.2005 | 12:26 pm
That sounds awesome! I would love to go there but I live in LA. I have had an experience with ghost though. I’ve wanted to see another ever since that time even though it scared me really bad. I was only 7 at the time.
Comment by April | 11.17.2005 | 1:00 pm
OKAY PEOPLE! PAY ATTENTION! I live about 20 minutes away from this bridge, and have gone there BY MYSELF to investigate the story. I was there for about two hours, in the dark, and NOTHING HAPPENED! The story is not true, and everyone who claims to have had encounters with a spirit is a FAKE. I brought my video camera with me, just in case, and there is nothing at all wierd that happened. It’s just a silly myth. AND I HAVE THE TAPE TO PROVE IT!!
Comment by thayet59 | 12.9.2005 | 12:20 pm
actually i have gone there and it was spooky.i went with my frirends and i saw stuff hanging around .
Comment by abby | 12.30.2005 | 2:21 am
I have been there. If you go to the last house on the right, down the driveway, you will comw to a dirt road. Follow the dirt road as far as your car will allow, and you can see through the trees some sort of buildinng. Im not sure what builing it is. I have heard about the sanitaruim, but have never seen it and dont even know how to find it. Id like to see it though.
Comment by Dawn | 01.5.2006 | 11:20 pm
that sounds scary….i want to go! what do you people think would happen if i went? do you think i would be scared? im a tough gurl! i think me and my friend amy will go! sounds fun!
Comment by alison | 01.25.2006 | 12:00 am
I have been there too. I saw this shck with a lot of dead animals in it, and then me and my brother ran FASt. There was this field and then a forest so we ran in the car and drove off to the clearing. the path was small, just big enough for my bro’s car to get thru. We got thru and we saw this big hospital that looked like it was three stories or so. It was darkish and had white splotches, kinda like a cow almost. We got the heck outta there and saw a mna walking towards it.
Comment by Josh | 02.28.2006 | 2:05 pm
i have a hard time believing things like that of course i prolly wouldnt go because theres always a posobility but i also have a hard time believing things about mothman jerseydevil and i kinda believe in bigfoot not to much
Comment by cameron | 03.6.2006 | 1:51 pm
Well,
Let me tell you The Cops down at bunny mans bridge are AWFUL. the people that live back there(if you ever happen to see them……RUN…dont talk to them they are crazy.
Oh by the way…did any of you notice when you went there that behind the tracks a man named “dier” lives there….and in the front of his mailbox he has a Cross made from metal facing the bridge and it hasnt moved since 6 years ago when i first went to Bunny Mans Bridge.
The only thing we have seen up there is a massively HUGE hand print on the back window that spanned from about 3/4 down the back window to the top and it was Fingers and all no smudges like someone dragged there hand to make it look big or anything….Also a Ghost train runs on top of the bridge(this is fun scared the HELL out of me and my friends) the weird thing is….You dont hear it coming……You only see it when its on top of you basically……Oh dont get stuck down there with a crappy car either….Ours cut off on us under the bridge after the lights SURGED got super bright and then just cut off……So
Beware Bunny Mans BRIDGE is REAL….I dont know about the light **** on halloween i was there 2 years ago and nothing happened….
Comment by Tyler | 03.16.2006 | 3:52 pm
if you go you could still see blood on the bridge inside — i went during the dya
Comment by jessica | 03.22.2006 | 5:43 pm
The story Amber told is a story written by Timothy C. and is completely FAKE! I read it last night and there is no records of an Old Clifton Library anywhere.
Comment by Alucard | 03.25.2006 | 1:42 pm
i live in virgina and i visited bunny mans bridge many times… there is no ghost, but there is a crazy homeless guy who lives half a mile away and goes there at night to mess around with people. if u walkt down the tracks u can see his tent, there is animal bones and traps, also a seatherd deer head
Comment by Ziad Albermani | 04.2.2006 | 6:58 pm
Yo can some1 tell me if there really is a 3 or 4 story buildin in the woods near that shack. An if it is there can sum1 tell me wut it is an how to get there from charles city. I cant necessarily find directions to it considerin its rundown. Rundown **** like thats hard to find directions to, practically gotta rely on ppls info. I’ve explored multiple rundown condemned abandoned asylums & hospitals. Just like the Old Central State Mental Hospital in petersburg, now dats sum tight ****
Comment by Grimey | 04.10.2006 | 1:48 pm
I’ve known many many people who have gone to the Bunny Man Bridge. One is my boyfriend. He says that there’s nothing there, but one of my friends says that when she was there, there was something there. She didn’t stick around to find out was going to happen. I have never been there, but I do plan to go. I believe it’s all real. Things like this do happen, and ghosts or spirits are real.
Comment by Samantha | 05.2.2006 | 12:53 pm
Check this out, it’s all mapped nice and neat. (sorry for the giant fat link) But prepare yourself for a well-lit midnight disappointment, as this area is developing rapidly. The road ended here only a few years ago, but there is a neighborhood forming around the bridge today.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=38.789805~-77.362306&style=h&lvl=19&scene=3227635&sp=aN.38.780863_-77.387154_Clifton_~aN.38.800596_-77.331779_Fairfax%20Station%20%28Museum%29_Relocated%20here%20in%201975%20as%20a%20museum.~aN.38.799522_-77.331795_Fairfax%20Station%20%28Site%29_~aN.38.813150_-77.376057_Pope%27s%20Head%20Road_Intersection%20mentioned%20in%20the%20blog~aN.38.789815_-77.362306_Bunnyman%20Bridge_The%20developers%20have%20been%20here%2c%20this%20isn%27t%20an%20isolated%20area%20anymore.%20%20The%20road%20leading%20to%20the%20farm%20goes%20through%20now%2c%20it%20came%20up%20the%20other%20way%20before.%20%20These%20houses%20are%20all%20new.~aN.38.671175_-77.234667_WRONG%20Bunnyman%20Bridge_This%20is%20by%20the%20OTHER%20Colchester%20Road%2c%20near%20Occoquan%2c%20VA.%20%20The%20RR%20bridge%20here%20WAS%20kind%20of%20deep%20in%20the%20woods%2c%20but%20now%20it%27s%20in%20the%20process%20of%20clearcutting%20for%20new%20industrial%20development.%20So%20sad.~aN.38.668078_-77.235630_Colchester_This%20was%20a%20colonial%20tobacco%20port%20town.%20%20It%20died%20when%20the%20river%20silted%20up.%20%20A%20few%20buildings%20remain%2c%20such%20as%20the%20Fairfax%20Arms.%20%20The%20hogshead%20%22Rolling%20Road%22%20running%20through%20Fairfax%20ended%20here.
Comment by Armand | 05.8.2006 | 4:05 pm
If you’re still looking, I have a good link to the Bunnyman legend here:
THE BUNNYMAN UNMASKED!
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunny.htm
This site shows what the bridge USED to look like, which you can imagine at night:
http://www.weirdus.com/stories/VA01.asp
This site shows it now, cleaned up and the road cleared and paved through:
http://virginiaghosts.com/bunnyman.php
(it’s a reprint of bunnyman unmasked)
And apparently it’s painted a nice creamy color now too:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://gazette.gmu.edu/images/bunnymanbridge.jpg&imgrefurl=http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/7359/&h=480&w=722&sz=117&tbnid=jN1pblhq64JVWM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=139&hl=en&start=16&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbunnyman%26svnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
Rumor has it there’s a bunnyman bridge in Reston too.. and one out in Loudoun County.. so there’s always hope
Comment by Armand Banana the Funless Debunker | 05.8.2006 | 4:54 pm
If you go on top of the bridge, you can see the stone that has been eroded where the ropes were hanging off the bridge.
Comment by eric | 05.31.2006 | 10:38 pm
Yesterday 6/18/06 I went there with two of my friends around 1 AM. The whole area is creepy. Recently someone had died around the bridge area. Before you come to the bridge you should see a little shrine dedacated to a girl name Lauren. DO NOT TRUST THE LOCALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Charles | 06.18.2006 | 2:00 pm
I forgot Nothing happened. I trying to find the crazy dude that lives in a so called shack with dead animal skin around his shack and that mental hospital.
Comment by Charles | 06.18.2006 | 2:09 pm
I’ve been there many times and have never seen anything out of the ordinary. I did see the cross for Lauren, not sure who she is though. Probably one of many teens to die on Cliftons winding roads. BTW There is no Clifon library or asylum. That’s all made up to be part of the story.
Comment by Gina | 06.18.2006 | 4:45 pm
Hey im George from Va beach and if anybody wants to see some crazy ghost places message me on http://www.myspace.com/georgeafly I have EVP and videos of all types of crazy places in suffolk and va beach
Comment by GEORGE | 09.2.2006 | 5:57 pm
Ok guys heres the deal. I lived my whole childhood walking distance away from the bridge. Me and my friends have been there many times before and even have gone on halloween. Now I’m not saying the spot isn’t haunted. I have personally heard things in tunnel that is below the bridge were the teenagers were hung outside. But me or any of my friends were ever hurt at the bridge. If traveling to the bridge though and want to get the full effect don’t visit during the day, all the accounts of anything supernatural have happened at night. Be aware also that at one end of the tunnel their are rocks so if you run scared make sure you don’t trip and get messed up and make the people of Fairfax County paranoid. A tip also will be to travel in groups, alot of spray painters visit the tunnel to leave their mark on the spot. So to avoid major conflict be in a group.
Comment by Jack | 09.2.2006 | 6:35 pm
hey look i realy do want to see this but i dont know what to believe is this place haunted or not, please tell me if the stories are true because i am an extreme thrill seeker and i want to see this haunted stuff. so…can someone give me a strait answer or not
Comment by jacob purves | 09.3.2006 | 11:04 pm
i was walkin by and a plethera of bunnies **** all over my body and i was never able to walk again id advise u not to go there and bunny man raped and i couldnt **** correctly for three years
IM NOT ***!!!
Comment by JUICY | 09.7.2006 | 5:43 pm
I have been to bunny mans bridge several times myself and have seen a few things myself. I have tried to find the asylum and the shack but I have been unsuccessful, so if there is anyone who has good directions to these places from manassas I would really appreciate it alot. I’ve been investigating the bunny mans bridge for awhile and I have found alot of intersting things but I have looked for the ” Old Clifton Library” with no success either, I would like to know if it really exists and where it is. All the dates and supposed facts that people have found are from this library and I would really like to find the truth of this bridge, if there is anyone with this information please email me at: ashortstuff18@aol.com Thank you very much
Comment by ang | 09.27.2006 | 12:44 pm
that sounds really creapy!
I would never go their even if i was paid half a million dollars and i also think that the other person who said they would take their family to that place is stupid and is basicually putting their families in danger and that would just upset me if somebody we’re to actually take their family up their.If I saw somebody or heard of somebody who went their i would kick their @#$ and smack them in the face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by unspoken | 09.30.2006 | 3:34 pm
This story is just sick and twisted. Some-one tell me why some guy would want to slice and dice a bunch of kids when kids had nothing to do with the story….it is said that Bunny Man found his wife and child slashed and the police didn’t believe him so they threw him in a Insane Asylum…..why would he get revenge on kids…why not the police…makes more sence….in my opinion this story is false….
Comment by Mandy | 10.12.2006 | 9:54 pm
Does anyone know of a haunted halloween walk that happens around that area? I would like to go.
Comment by Erik | 10.26.2006 | 8:58 pm
My experience with this bridge was more of a social comedy then a horror. 4 years ago my buddy Fidel and I hesitantly wondered into the woods with some scared GMU Frat children (7+ guys & 3 girls who arrived at the same time by chance). After forming into one large drunken mob we marched into the wood in search of the Evil Dead cabin and the sacred Boomstick. Not but 50 paces from the road and we began to be harassed by THE SHAKING TREE LIMBS OF DEATH!!!! Which after the initial urine factor, the real adults realized were just some neighborhood kids who shook so many branches in so many places as to create an illusion of a ghost (a VERY wind like ghost). Long story short, the GMU guys ran off leaving the 3 women alone walking with Fidel and myself (the nice). After a five minute hike I decided I’d had enough of the scary/annoying wind, and decided to charge one of the “trees.” I was expecting to pull the mask off the tree and find it to be Old Man - INSERT NAME HERE, but ended up tripping smack on my face. In defeat I walked back to the car never to see the cabin (which I know is back there), but I did see a good portion of a fraternity house get shamed/outed by tree limbs.
Well its Devil’s Night 06′ and I will be making my second trip back to The Ole’ Bunnyman Bridge. This time I know that they (local hicks/vampires) run along side the forest path making use of the train tracks to run silently through the night only to pop out in front of you. But I don’t care, both the people, location, and legend bring oput some weird creep factor that just can’t be found at a park or in a movie. If you see me there tonight feel free to stand behind me, cause I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
Comment by Chris | 10.30.2006 | 7:43 pm
Well I wish I could say I wasn’t afraid of other things as I am of ghosts. For instance the nice Fairfax County cop who was on top of us within 1 minute of arriving to the bridge. To his credit, he did point out these small “No Trespassing” signs (which is the last thing you look at when you come upon the infernal bridge) and forced us to leave. The entire time his face seemed to have a look of shame as though he knew how rediculous forcing people from the bridge was, and how much disappointment he was bringing to others… nay, himself. Nice guy though.
If you want to take a slight risk, avoid driving there altogether and park on another road intersecting the railroad tracks. On Google Earth there appears to be quite a few roads that intersect and 2 are within a 10 minute railroad track hike. In all I think the only thing you will find at night out there will at least be a cop, and for those stupid enough to have something illegal on them… probrably a lot more.
Till next year,
-Chris
Comment by Chris | 10.31.2006 | 6:54 pm
I’ve heard a couple stories, one is of the mental institution which isn’t that far from the bridge, it’s abandoned now, you can go to it. One story says that there was 2 guys that excaped the intitution and they were found at the bridge, one hanging from it, the other surounded by bunny corpses and eating them. Another story is that the people didn’t want the mental house so close to them so they demanded all the inmates be moved, but the bus taking them got hit by a train and some died some escaped. All were found but 2 and they were later found at the bridge, one hangning from it, antoher surounded by bunny courpses and eating them. There are also sorties that it was the bunnyman that killed naught children and adult that came wandering by the bridge, some found hanging. But some say it’s just a myth but then, why must the police put surveilance around the bridge. I’ve never seen the records, but some articles and writting say that they’ve checked out the story and the intitution that the bus was heading too didn’t fit the date because it wasn’t built yet, then again they could’ve been transporting them somewhere else and they say that there are no records of any deaths near that bridge, but stories come from somewhere right?
Comment by BonBon | 11.12.2006 | 3:12 pm
Not that I am a disbeliever, because I do believe in
the Bunnyman Bridge, but I will get into that in a
minute…I read that there is no library in Clifton on the clifton historic website.
As for the BunnyMan himself, well, a friend of mine
and I went to the bridge yesterday afternoon on our
way to a her friend’s parent’s house for Thanksgiving
dinner. Before she got to the bridge and hit her
breaks, I had an overwhelming feeling of headrush and
then a massive headache. We drove the full route of
Fairfax Station Road, and exited through Clifton Road
onto route 123. My headache left as soon as we were on
Route 123. We saw many carcuses (sp?) on the road on
our journey out. I sensed something at the bridge, I know I did.
Comment by Liz | 11.24.2006 | 9:49 am
Hi,
We went there as we had friends in from michigan that saw this place on the internet. We went there and there was a sign no trespassing so drove through and parked on other side of road with lights on. We walked through the tunnel and nothing. However, as we walked away 4 of us got very sour stomachs and we felt some kind of pressence for sure. We drove back through tunnel and as we went up the hill our SUV pulled to the right kinda like a jerking of the car and 4 of use again got very upset stomachs. It was a bit werid as I was doing the driving. I wonder if something happened in that area of the road ?
I am not sure about stories but for sure I sensed something there as I walked away from the tunnel.
Sephen
Comment by Stephen | 11.26.2006 | 2:31 am
thats freaky no on ever go there or youll DIE!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha but it is sorta true if u dont be carefull….. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Comment by Lucy | 12.17.2006 | 2:56 am
omg if you think that is true then you keep doing wat your doing buddy. that is not the true story.
Comment by alicia | 12.17.2006 | 9:56 am
okaii….so i went there yesterday and i dunno y people con tinue to exagerrate the story….its clearly not that serious…ive been there many times…anyway….
when you’re going down fairfax station and your about to make that right to Colchester Rd toward the bridge there are a couple missing posters…ever since ive been visiting the bridge ive been thinkinn about taking a poster as a souvineer or sumthin and i did last night…it was a teenage girl and her name was sumthing McGee….i forgot hger first name but if anyone noes anything about that email me because im interested about it
xxmo3tmamiixx@yahoo.com
there was also a little memorial on the side of the road…of sumone else that obviously died there… what ever info i can get about that will help…thanx
Comment by Caren | 12.25.2006 | 11:32 pm
I visited Bunnyman’s Bridge, completely skeptical of everything I’ve heard. Ofcoarse, it wasn’t Halloween or any particular date.
Its a pretty creepy place to visit alone at night, but other than that I didn’t notice anything.
Comment by Jon | 03.8.2007 | 3:58 pm
Hey ok soo this Friday the 16 or the 17 but yea me and 3 ppl are goin we wana know whats the real deal lol we gona take cameras! and all this ****! lol
i really wana go soo BADD ^_^ 4 some reason i knwo its gona B- fun
Comment by Rodd from centreville high school | 03.14.2007 | 5:08 pm
Holy ****!!! that is so freaking scary,i really do believe it!!
Comment by Amber | 03.16.2007 | 5:19 pm
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Comment by CESAR | 06.21.2007 | 10:48 am
i used to live their before i got locked up and i never heard about it i guess i will have to check it out when i get out in 2009
Comment by incarcerated in chesterfield jail | 08.17.2007 | 2:13 pm
I JUST MOVED TO FAIRFAX STATION, AND LOOKING FORWARD TO VISTITNG THIS BUNNY BRIDGE.IF I SEE ANYTHING I’LL POST IT..
Comment by JOSS | 10.4.2007 | 10:14 am
My friend’s dad use to know the man said to be the bunny man. I was freaked out to be around him for the longest time!!! He said he almost got the bunny man put in jail but he couldn’t do it to his friend.
Comment by jackie | 10.7.2007 | 4:59 pm
That story sounds very interesting but as I was reading the posted comments…..well at first I didnt believe it but then as i was reading the comments i could see that some of ya’ll have been there. Where is it may i ask? Do ya’ll know if the man?
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Comment by none of your business | 10.8.2007 | 6:28 pm
SOOOOOOOOOOO SPOKY! i’m scared
Comment by Angel | 10.8.2007 | 7:10 pm
I think the story is true. I know it hasn’t been proved but how do you explain the dead people. Also can you see the Asylum and shack from local. live or google maps? I don’t plan to go there because i dont feel like dieing very soon.
Comment by Tanner | 10.10.2007 | 9:35 pm
i also think that the stroy is true. What else would explain all of the dead bodies and weird sightings? But who is the bunnyman? Where is he? Is he still alive or is he just a carcass buried in dirt? Can he still kill you or is he a dormant geezer in the woods? Does he walk around with a walker and a ax or what he has to be dead hes over 100+ years old.
Comment by bob bradley | 10.11.2007 | 11:37 am
I live in the general area of the Bunnyman Bridge. Lived there my entire life (and no, most of us locals aren’t crazy) When I was little, my mom and I got lost on our way to my piano lesson and we went under the bridge to turn around (Note: This was before I knew the story). We went under slowly and I just had a weird eerie feeling.
Years later, I went back with some friends. We walked under the bridge and it just didn’t feel right. It felt as though someone was watching us. Not to mention it was quite chilly (and it was a summer day). We didn’t stay for long. I do believe something goes on there.
Paranormal activity doesn’t happen 24/7. If you ask me, I’d say you should go back to Bunnyman Bridge more than once. Three times is a charm.
Comment by Baillie | 10.14.2007 | 1:23 am
You probably felt like you were being watched cause about 2 years ago someone installed a camera right under the bridge. Now I’m not sure if it works or not…but every time I’ve gone out there you hear weird things from the backside of the bridge and it really doesn’t matter what time of day, i was in my work truck and it stalled, went back that night and my own personal car stalled. Police are trying to cut down on kids going out there but just be careful cause they will get you for trespassing but it’s almost worth it to try and figure this story out.
Comment by Richard | 10.22.2007 | 6:48 pm
Hopefully this will end the endless fuel that people keep adding to the “Legend” of the Bunnyman bridge, and that’s all that it is. So sick and tired of people posting **** on her that isnt true.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunny.htm
Comment by Ed | 10.25.2007 | 6:14 pm
you guys are nuts. I used to live out there. I have been there at midnight, daylight and avery time inbetween. I used to hang out in the woods, there is a creek to the right of it, and look for crawfish, and find them! If you follow the road to the end there used to be a gravel road that went off to the left and down a hill. The only wierd thing I ever noticed was a group of dead trees in a circle with big healthy trees all around. That area is blocked off now because of all the teenage drinking. The place is NOT scarey at all.
Comment by amg | 11.17.2007 | 9:13 pm
the story sound pretty kool so my friends and i are trying to go to the bridge this week or the next but i also want to get to the “shack” and the “hospital/mental place” so if anyone has direction on how to get there that would be awsome
hit me up at lapana_21@yahoo.com if you do….
tanx
Comment by michell | 11.20.2007 | 5:35 pm
the mental hospital is gone. It was off of compton road. It is now a residential neighborhood. The “shack” is on private property. If you trespass the owner CAN shoot as the area is zoned agricultural and the use of firearms is allowed on the property.
Comment by amg | 11.23.2007 | 9:42 pm
Ok, Where is this place because I was there for about an hour in a half looking for this place and all I found was a stupid dog that I almost ran over and hit a trashcan, so if anyone can help me out and tell me the exact location on this place I will really apreciate it
Comment by Marvin | 12.8.2007 | 3:41 am
What kind of name is Bunny Man Bridge? Is it haunted by a man who wears a pink bunny costume
thats so ***
Comment by YO MOMMA | 12.11.2007 | 4:55 pm
to get to bunny man bridge from ox road (rt. 123) take fairfax station road west until you t-bone Colchester road.
turn left onto colchester road and drive straight into the lame bunny man bridge.
Now if you are coming from Braddock rd. turn onto Colchester rd. and follow it till it dead ends. Bunny man bridge is the ONLY bridge on that road.
Comment by amg | 12.18.2007 | 8:22 pm
I have urinated all over bunnyman bridge on several occasions.
Comment by The man with the golden gun | 12.20.2007 | 6:50 am
To Charles (6/18/2006 post):
The ’shrine’ that you saw by the bridge is further up the road, it is where a girl died in a car accident a few years ago. Clifton is a very dark place with tons of winding narrow roads surrounded by trees. It has nothing to do with locals, just an unfortunate car accident.
As far as the bridge goes, I’ve been there many times. It’s ’scary’ because Clifton is just a dark area surrounded by woods in general. I’ve never seen anything, nor have I known anyone who has seen anything. Clifton itself has a few ghosts however, as many soldiers from the Civil War fought there hundreds of years ago.
Comment by Sarah | 01.9.2008 | 3:50 pm
To get to bunnyman bridge:
Take Ox Road (route 123) South– going away from Reston going towards Lorton.
Turn Right on Fairfax Station Road. The road will split, stay to the right.
Go to the end of Fairfax Station Road, it will come to a T, turn left (onto Colchester Road). Keep going straight to follow Colchester (don’t get back on Fairfax Station Rd). The bridge is straight ahead.
Comment by Lana | 01.9.2008 | 3:55 pm
Okay, so January 6th, 2008. me and my best friend Dylan decide to go there one morning . We had a sleepover the night before and we wanted to go then, but the night was rainy and we didn’t want his parents finding out that we snuck out because we’d be all in muddy clothes. Anyway, we decided to skateboard there since we love skateboarding. Dylan lives in downtown Clifton so we head out from Main Street, past Clifton Rd. We then skated through Newman Rd then turned right onto Fairfax Station Road.
Now, the whole trip was full of steep hills which we enjoyed riding on. Fairfax Stn Rd is a lot different though. At about 2/3 through the road was this HUUUUGE Hill. My friend went ahead and skated down it like nothing was wrong. I thought I could do the same thing. NOT. As I was skating down the last part of the road, I noticed I was gaining a LOT of speed. I started panicking and my board started to wobble. I knew that if I wobbled too much I could crash into a tree. I stomp on the ground as quickly as I could and WOOOAAH! I flew for about 3 seconds in the air then rolled like soccer ball for about 7 seconds until I finally stopped the roll with left hand. I didn’t get seriosuly injured but I did get a bad scrape on my right elbow. So yeah, TALK ABOUT BAD LUCK!!!
Then we turned right onto Colchester road and saw this memorial for this girl named “Lauren”. I was pretty freaked out but I joked with my friend that “Her ghost now haunts that part of the road!” He got all freaked out.
So then we skate the rest of the way down to Bunnyman Bridge. I got a relieved but eerie feeling when I got there with Dylan. There it was, Bunnyman Bridge. Now I was and still am a bit skeptical about the stories and rumors. As soon as me and Dylan took our first steps, we felt this negative energy. SERSLY, YOU COULD FEEL IT. We heard some people talking and we thought they coming this way. It was just a couple walking their two white hair colored husky dogs. We said Hi and everything then they continued on with their walk. As soon as you couldn’t hear them anymore, my friend starting talking about “the big flash of light you see before you die” there. Then we noticed how our voices echoed WAY TOO MUCH for a tiny little bridge like that.
We both grabbed our skateboards and started banging certain parts of the tunnel that we thought were HOLLOW. We made epic echoes. Right after they ended, we started hearing things. Went walked out to the other side and nobody was there. We climbed on top of the bridge and looked around the area. nobody. We then jumped when we heard my friends cell phone ring. It was my sister and she wanted to meet up with us at this Ice Rink in Reston. We agreed but we wouldn’t meet up till 2:30 hours later. Right when we hung up, WE SWEAR we heard children screaming from somewhere in the woods or BELOW us in the tunnel. Dylan then brought out his camera and we started taking pictures of ourselves in front and inside of the tunnel. We then went through the tunnel one more time to get back to Colchester. Even though it was (and still is) January, IT WAS FREEZING IN THERE. We got so freaked out, we ran and as we ran a flock of crows (I think) flew right above us and started to “caw” at us real loudly. We ran as fast as we could and right when we passed that “Lauren Memorial” they stopped cawwing at us.
We then had a bit of bad luck the rest of the day, we spent all our money at this expensive cafe before we could go ice skating. My sister’s best friend got into argument with her. My baby brother got sick that night. Not to mention I couldn’t get my scrape treated till the next day.
I think Bunnyman gives you bad luck and/or something paranormal happens to you. Not to mention Clifton’s had a pretty bad past as some people have told me (like murders and weird accidents).
Okay, well that’s pretty much all I can give you for right now. Maybe the Bunnyman stories could’ve been just myths but SOMETHING is there. And it’s not good.
I should know, I was there in broad daylight, with my best friend.
Your Welcome,
JohnnyBoyy
Comment by Johnny Boyy | 01.9.2008 | 4:40 pm
Well my mommy told me when her and her boyfriend and hos friends went up there where the hospital where crazy people go to they heard laughter and then they went inside the hospital thiing and they heard the laughter again and since they were yung and dumb (lol) they folled the laughter and ended up at the brigde and they said they saw little arms and fingers and then they looked under the bridge and say something moving!
Comment by cindy | 02.1.2008 | 12:43 pm
who would name this place ”the bunny man bridge,”
yet is it some folktale, and is it a sidewalk, or something and i bring cash if hes int rested for letting me have good luck, but idk lmao
Comment by rod | 02.7.2008 | 6:09 pm
IVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY LIARS TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. PATHETIC! OK first off, the whole story on this page about it,is completely wrong! none of that is even in the folklore of the place. whoever wrote this info on the place had never been, nor has ever heard the real/fake story.I live in walking distance of it and have lived there, well here (Clifton) all my life. Been there tons of times all night long. Even in the woods all around the place, night/day outings.There’s nothing out of the ordinary or weird about it. anybody who says so is either an idiot or paranoid like crazy or mostly, a liar. Yes, it is ominous because it’s the most random structure in the whole town area but its a damn crossing for a train! thats it!
Another thing, all these kids up there talking about how “they” went to the insane asylum and theres a “hospital” and its “still there in the woods”, “we walked or drove to it” blah blah is LYING! HAHA there is no buildings back there in the woods! u cant even drive more than barely a 100 yards past the bridge! it’s been blocked for years! and even if it wasn’t blocked, theres trees the size of buildings at the end of the road! wherever they said they went, wasn’t bunny man bridge in Clifton!
The most widely circulated written version entitled The Clifton Bunny Man and signed by Timothy C. Forbes, Virginia, was posted on a Web site called Castle of Spirits around 1999. This version of the tale is actually quite notable because of the number of specific facts given. Forbes claims that in 1904 inmates from an insane asylum escaped while being transferred to Lorton Prison. One of these escapees, Douglas J. Grifon, murdered fellow escapee Marcus Wallster and eventually became the Bunny Man. Not only is the location identified, but also the names of several victims and the dates of their murders. The story ends with a challenge for the reader to check with the Clifton Town Library for verification of the facts.
HERES THE HARSH REALITY FROM SOMEONE (ME) WHO ACTUALLY LIVES HERE KIDS….Little effort was required to show that all of the specifics given in the Forbes version are FALSE. FIRST– there has NEVER been an asylum for the insane in Fairfax County, EVER! SECOND– Lorton Prison didn’t come into existence until 1910, and even then it was an arm of the District of Columbia Corrections system, not Virginia’s. THIRD– neither Grifon nor Wallster appear in the court records of Fairfax County. HERES THE BEST PART—- there is NOT and has NEVER been a Clifton Town Library! SO, what im saying is this- Theres no bunny man, theres no curse, its not bad luck. theres houses right next to it 10 feet away. if the **** was haunted, the people would have moved don’t u think? or there would have been more murders within the 30 years ive lived here and as for the ghost kids “laughing” and “screaming”..uh yeah, theres like hundreds of kids in the area, at all times! so come and check it out! only thing that’ll scare you, is yourself. hey!
Comment by Colin | 02.10.2008 | 3:15 am
I know for a fact that the bunny man does exist. I have seen him with my own eyes.I was a kid when my friend and I saw him in the woods near a bridge where I used to live. he tried to grab us but we ran home and told our parents but of course they didn’t believe us. But the funny thing was is that he was atleast 6ft tall and he was a complete bunny but standing on two legs. I dont care what anyone says I saw what I saw and it still haunts me to this day.
Comment by Marylin | 02.22.2008 | 8:44 pm
how can you say it is a lie when 28 people were murdered and hung from the bridge? Back in 58 a couple of teenagers went there being idiots and the police found them the next day to two boys hanging from one side of the bridge mutilated and the girl was hung on the other side. And another one was when a girl and her two friends went up there. When one of the girls got frustrated and wanted to leave she was callinf for her friends and when she turned around she ran into them but they were hanging from the bridge mutilated. The bunnyman story is real and stories I just told you are real cause it was told on the show “Scariest places on Earth” and their are police reports. Now how do you explain 28 deaths and people hanging from the bride mutilated?
Comment by Marylin | 02.22.2008 | 8:49 pm
i think you were on acid. there were no mass murders. do you believe everything you see on TV? that show is a bunch of ****. if you want facts try researching old news paper articles for your so called facts
Comment by amg | 02.27.2008 | 2:23 pm
Im Mean I’ve Been there With My Friend Tommy. We Walked Up To The Bridge Together, And At 12 A Flash Of Light Came Over Us And A Hauled A** Back To Our Car And My Friend Tommy Never Was Seen Again. So It’s True.
Comment by Amanda | 02.27.2008 | 5:52 pm
Amanda i’m here in spirit,the flash of light was a big j coming towards my face i ended up on cloud 9 stoned out of my mind…thanks bunny man that was the chronic.
Comment by Tommy | 02.27.2008 | 5:55 pm
this story is such ********. link up all of the so called “stories”. none of them match. plus look at all the key words they give us. (halloween, ax murderers, bright lights, men dressed in bunny suits, people hanging from bridges) gee, it sounds like a great horror movie doesn’t it?
if you go to well researched websites like ohhh let me see….the fairfax county website, you’ll see it has all been de-bunked.
Comment by amykillswitch | 02.28.2008 | 1:03 am
Well i went there with 3 other friens and i wanted 2 leave so i went with my friend vicky back 2 the car then.Ana came 2 the car and i asked her were’s lori and she just toke us home. Then whe hear someone laugh.
Comment by Anabell | 02.28.2008 | 11:21 am
DO NoT GO THERE U WILL DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it all started when me and my friends went there we did not belive the storys so we went there when we got there lupita,corina,deisy,and me saw a spirit we stared at it for a long time and we made a run for it we got so scared we had 2 leave it was******** ********
Comment by victoria | 02.28.2008 | 9:53 pm
Well if u dont think its 4 reals that go but when someone u really think as family or ur family there dies then ur going to regret ever going there.
Comment by Ana | 02.29.2008 | 11:21 am
Yes, it would be a good horror movie, I hope it becomes one, or I want to make one. However, I would love it if it were real, I love to be freaked out.
C’MON BUNNYMAN EXIST!!
Comment by brant | 02.29.2008 | 7:42 pm
This urban legend is the most well known in North Virginia, but its flawed. For starters, there wern’t even any mental institutions built around Fairfax in that time era.
Comment by Nick | 03.5.2008 | 6:33 pm
It certainly is an eerie area, but the closest thing to paranormal we encountered was my boyfriend shutting the car down mid-tunnel, and pretending it did it on its own.
I’ve heard about 3 different variations of the bunnyman story, and so far this site seems to have the most credible story involving the legend:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunny5.htm
Comment by Anon | 03.13.2008 | 3:57 pm
I SAW HIM!!! I SAW HIM!!!! Go late at night and feed him carrots, he is actually really friendly. He gave me a rabbit foot for good luck!
Comment by krissy | 03.15.2008 | 7:06 pm
this is the bunny man. please come to see me. I am lonely and bored. Would like someone to play with. Remember to say bunny-man three times. Please wait on me. I might be busy. Please bring some veggies for bunny stew. If I don’t show after thirty minutes come to mental hospital. You will not be disappointed.
Comment by bunny man | 03.30.2008 | 9:01 pm
Marilyn, your an idiot! if you do your research, you’ll know and find out that the information on that *** show “scariest places on earth” is neither extablished, published or researched. Every location is presented by its local folklore and the residents who reside in the local area of the locations presented. LIKE I SAID! I LIVE IN WALKING DISTANCE FROM IT! LIKE 100 FEET OR SO! I’ve lived here for about 30 years and my family before me, since the 40’s on! there was no murders in the 19th or 20th century ever! Maybe back when it was a non existant area, but there is still no confirmed and true evidence or information, worldwide to prove any of it, neither would anybody ever know! if there was, wouldnt you think it’d be in this town? the town where the location resides? Your a believer of **** like millions! the only people who say that **** are people that dont live here! and no marilyn, there are no police reports! I have cops in the family from fairfax all the way to spotsylvania VA, theres never even been a case in that location! ever! trust me, its peaked my interest millions of times! so quit lighting up, get your *** out the holy glow of your tv and read somethin true, and back up what you say when your nowhere near the truth, or location of what your talking about.
Comment by Colin | 04.5.2008 | 8:15 pm
I was there 2 nights ago at midnight it is CREEPY AS ****
Comment by Shannon | 04.13.2008 | 1:09 pm
the story is told a little bit different from the way i heard it….in my story that i heard,the guy went crazy and killed his family and went to jail for it then he escaped and somehow found the birdge then children played around the birdge then were found DEAD!!!
Comment by madison | 04.13.2008 | 5:02 pm
The bridge is just a bridge. The ’stories’ surrounding it are just myths. They have grown over the years also. Every person who hears a ’story’and believes it, adds a little bit more to the ’story’. There is NO truth to this myth. My family has been living near the bridge for over 120 years– no truth to any of those tall tales.
Comment by Lane | 04.26.2008 | 12:21 pm
Not worth it at all. Don’t worry about coming, it’s not worth any of your time.
Comment by some guy | 05.4.2008 | 12:42 pm
OMG! That is so scary! I never ever EVER want to go ther (maybe I do). I love hearing about ghost stories. They are so awsome! This is the best one yet!!
Comment by Hollyann | 05.8.2008 | 9:59 am
the travel channel did a show on haunted va and the bunny man bridge was on there but the story was different but i really think this would be a cool place to see
Comment by michelle | 05.9.2008 | 8:06 pm
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Comment by alex | 07.1.2008 | 2:32 pm
I just went last night with a couple of friends, it is a creepy area and it got creepier because our echoes were way too loud and after our echoes comes a loud scary sound, I am not saying there is presence or ghost but I do want a logical explanation to that!
Comment by Bianca | 07.1.2008 | 4:08 pm
my next door neighbor actually lived in an active haunted house b4 she moved here. she took me to that house once (its empty b/c no1 will live there) and there was doors slamming cabbinets opened and the thermostat would go from HOTT to COLD by itself and right be4 we left the trash can flew across the back yard )it was the citys can(. it was really scary! but its not near the bunny man bridge i’ve never been to the bridge. this house is in portsmouth va
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Comment by summer | 07.9.2008 | 5:30 pm
I went out to Bunny Man Bridge some years back when I was in high school, because I live so close to Clifton. The whole thing is completely unremarkable. There is no ’shack’ no ‘mental institution.’ Just a bridge with some gravel.
My advice is to NOT go out there, not because it’s boring as hell, but because the Police patrol that area regularly and will force you to leave. They’ve had enough problems with vandals out there as is.
Comment by RR | 07.10.2008 | 2:19 am
i went there 2 days ago at night, in the pitch black, got out of my car and nothing scary or tight was around there, its a waste of gas to be honest
Comment by casey | 07.13.2008 | 7:23 pm
I suggest that you not bother going there, and if you do not to linger for long. Some people think that it feels eerie at the bridge. I was more worried about cops. Police patrol the area regularly and the bridge is now under constant CCTV surveillance.
BTW, there is no record of there ever being a mental institution anywhere nearby Clifton. It’s a myth.
Comment by Ian | 07.17.2008 | 1:20 am
a few nights a go i also saw “scariest places on earth” my step sister danielle told me the show was fake but interesting ive been researching and wondering about the myth if it was real is there a bunnyman ???? who knows? i dont plan to go there because i dont wana take any chances just incase the myth is true ive heard many sides of the story so im not sure if anyone has any information on the myth please i m me at phillygurll08 thxx - bianx<3
Comment by bianxx | 07.18.2008 | 6:44 pm