-The Bunnyman Bridge-

Location:

• Colchester Rd.- Clifton/Fairfax Station, Virginia

Investigation Date(s): 

• 3/9/02 
• 3/17/02

Time: 

• (3/9/02) Midnight
• (3/17/02) 2:00am 

Weather Conditions:  

• 3/9/02: Overcast, windy and warm.
• 3/17/02:  Partly cloudy sky, cold, slight breeze. 

Background: 

There are many stories you can find on the Internet concerning the Bunnyman Bridge, unfortunately most all of them appear to be just that, stories. I'm not sure if people actually have heard them as truth or if people are just making up an exciting story to draw traffic to their webpage. I'll quote a story I found online about the Bunnyman: 

"3 Months passed by and the police had given up their search on April 7th 1905. Everybody assumed the Bunny Man was dead by now, if not gone, so they went on with their small town lives. 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 1900's did.

Midnight came around within minutes and most of the kids had left, only 3 of them remained at the bridge. They were all found dead the following morning. Throats slashed with what seemed to be the same type of tool that was found next to the other Escapee, Marcus. Not only were there throats slashed, but all up and down their chests were long deep slashes gutting them. To top it off the Bunny Man hung the kids from
one end of a bridge with a rope around their necks, hanging from the overpass with their legs dangling in front of the passing cars."

Back in the early 1900's the Fairfax/Clifton area was a rural farming community. I doubt they had many cars in 1905 (3 years before the Model-T) driving around. This is just one example of the poorly constructed stories about the bridge. Others aren't so easy to discredit as this one, but are still equally as fictitious.

The most credible information I have been able to find about the bridge comes from Brian A. Conley,  A Historian-Archivist with the Fairfax County Public Library. He did some extensive research about the legend of the Bunnyman and his findings are posted on the Fairfax County Public Library website. http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunny.htm 

If you want the real story of the Bunnyman Bridge, you need go no farther than the Fairfax County Public Library link above. If you want a more scary story with elements of insane asylums, prisons, dead rabbit carcasses, dead children and ghosts; you can find all kinds of different "campfire" stories all over the Internet from people claiming to know the "real" story.

We at P.A.I.G. only recognize the highly researched findings posted on the Fairfax County Public Library website as credible, any other stories in our opinion are false and should be treated as such.

Investigation Notes:

The Bunnyman Bridge looks more like a tunnel than a bridge. Colchester Rd. runs underneath the bridge, through the sixty foot tunnel as a one-way road. The bridge above the tunnel is used by trains, Amtrak to be exact. The bridge is hard to see through all the overgrown vines and brush that cover it. What you can see is a white paint that is pealing, just to revel the graffiti that it was covering up. This is more evident inside the tunnel, where their is new graffiti as well. The inside of the tunnel is still that pale white color. The walls are concrete and wet to the touch. Above the bridge itself consist of two parallel railroad tracks and not much else besides gravel.

During the investigation the digital camera was randomly malfunctioning and the two-way radios were also going off randomly for no reason. There is a rumor that if you say Bunnyman three times in a row, he will show himself. I tested this theory with little results. After calling three times to The Bunnyman, all that happened was one of the two-way radios went off. We later found that the digital camera was causing the radios to go off, so we had to rule out all occurrences while the camera was being used.

We did hear some strange noises, nothing we could confirm as paranormal, since we were in the middle of a highly wooded area  We were unable to pick up any EVP's.

We did not record any disturbance in the magnetic field during the readings we took.

We did not see anything strange.

Upon initial review of the video taken, there are unidentified objects that fly by the camera. Unfortunately these could be dust particles, bugs/insects or even moisture droplets. Nothing compelling.

Evidence:

None

Conclusion: Not Haunted

While during the investigation we did experience a few cold spots and the feeling that there may be something there, nothing conclusive was recorded with any of the pieces of equipment we used. With Virginia being a main location for many battles in the Civil War, I would be more likely to account any hauntings around that bridge to be connected to the Civil War and not any mysterious Bunnyman.