Pilot: Bunnyman Bridge
Elisha and Sydney uncover Virginia’s spooky secrets, embarking on a chilling journey that begins with the eerie legend of Bunnyman Bridge. Join us as we delve into the mysterious tales, unearthing the haunting histories and inexplicable phenomena that lurk in the shadows. From whispered ghost stories to unexplained encounters, each episode promises a spine-tingling exploration into the unknown. So, buckle up and prepare to unravel the unexplainable with us on this thrilling inaugural episode of our podcast.
Transcript
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Elisha: Hello listeners, and welcome to Elisha’s Eerie History.
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*Music Intro*
<<Elisha’s Eerie History>>
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Elisha: I’m your host, Elisha Rypkema. And today we have a special guest star and friend of the pod Sydney. Yes, just Sydney. No legal name here. She has pink hair. She’s fabulous. What more do they need to know?
Sydney: I feel like you’ve covered all the bases. We used to live together, too.
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Sydney: So we have a history and there’s Elisha’s Eerie History and there’s Elisha and Sydney history.
Elisha: So, yeah. Welcome, Sydney. We’ll have, like, applause.
Sydney: Thank you. Should we drink to that. Cheers. *Clink*
Elisha: Do you want to tell the viewers what your thoughts were on the Professionalism?
Sydney: Ah Yes. So Elisha and I have worked on a podcast before that never made it out of the first stages of recording and editing and never made it to a platform.
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Sydney: And he’s taken some time, learned a few things. So when he told me the premise of this one and I am traveling, I’m visiting. And when I showed up, I was expecting a certain caliber of professionalism that I just haven’t got.
Elisha: So what are we not reaching that you were expecting?
Sydney: Oh my God. What did I say when I got here?
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Sydney: I think I asked like– look at this, it is a black tablecloth. No art on the wall.
Elisha: We’re going to greenscreen the wall, hopefully. I think I’m going to greenscreen this and we’re going to have, like, cool shit happening.
Sydney:It’s just, I think the best example of the lack of professional is, is that you haven’t even read your notes yet, so.
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Elisha: Okay. I’ve read them. Okay, I had AI read it to me. We’re going to. It’s going to be fine. Post-production.
Sydney: The miracle and Magic of post-production.
Elisha: Question Should I close these blinds? So the lighting is consistent, or do like whatever?
Sydney: I mean, you can try it– once again. This is what I’m talking about. Doesn’t even have the lighting together.
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Elisha: This is my. This is like, my second recording ever. I need grace. Because, listen, if this is number one and we’re this solid, imagine number 200.
Sydney: Do you think we’ll get that far? I don’t think Virginia has enough scary history.
Elisha: Virginia is the most haunted state in America.
Sydney: 200 episodes, though, that’s.
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Sydney
Do you want to pivot to talking about what this podcast is about?
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Elisha: Yeah, let’s dive into the podcast and the concept. So my credentials are as follows.
Sydney: It’s True.
Elisha: It’s true. That’s an inside joke. They’re not going to get that.
Sydney: The more we push it, the funnier it’ll be. Just keep saying it’s true throughout the podcast.
Elisha: My credentials are as follows. So I got a 600 on my sixth grade reading, SOL.
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Elisha: That’s pretty good, that’s a perfect score for our non Virginia listeners, which was–
Sydney: SOL s*** out of luck that’s what we called them.
Elisha: Other credentials are as follows. I have a bachelor’s degree in ********** and I have Google and you know what? It doesn’t take a lot of credentials to make a podcast. Especially, something as dry and overdone as–
Sydney: spooky history, true crime, all that
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Elisha: Yeah. So I will be fact checking the episodes. My my plan is to have like a little, like, sound that’s like this idiot said this wrong. Here’s the actual information. I’m trying to pull from primary sources like a good adult. That being said, the other episode had more primary sources than this one. This one is more of a urban legend vocally.
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Sydney
We did visit the site. I got here day one, and this ***** drove us 2 hours to be at a place for 10 minutes. Take some video and pictures and leave.
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Elisha: Concept of the podcast is giving history, giving insight. Speaking about the past all with due respect, we’re not trying to offend.
Sydney: Well–
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Elisha: I’m not trying to offend.
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Elisha
What else about the podcast? I want it to be–
Sydney: It’s gay
Elisha: and gay. We’re not really gay.
Sydney: We’re kind of gay. And we’re giving gay cowboys some Brokeback Mountain.
Elisha: The other episode, it was definitely not gay, but it’s a little gay.
Sydney: Ah, well, I have pink hair, so you can’t avoid that. Really.
Elisha: The location we’re speaking of today, Episode one is Bunnyman Bridge.
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Elisha: Bunnyman Bridge is located in NOVA, which for people who aren’t in Virginia, that’s Northern Virginia. It’s where all the rich people live. Not me.
Sydney: No. But we went to school with a lot of we went to school with a lot of Northern Virginia kids at university.
Elisha: So we we can talk **** about them.
Sydney: Do you want to talk about where you’re from in Virginia?
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Elisha: That might be good. Yeah, that might help my credential. Okay, I’m from southern Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia. Which– I like it there? Didn’t love it. Everybody, if you guys go to the south of Virginia, let me know in the comments. Let me know your thoughts on Lynchburg, Virginia. I, i, I would go there. I like visiting there and I would buy property there because that’s cheap, but I don’t think I would live there again.
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Elisha
But it’s a great place to raise a family. And that’s what matters.
Sydney: Not a gay family.
Elisha: Well, not a gay family, but no one praises a family thinking we’re going to be gay.
Sydney: I am. When I have kids.
Elisha: Yeah, but you didn’t have children in the nineties.
Sydney: That’s fair.
Elisha: Your credentials, Sydney?
Sydney: Yes. Well, I know I’ve gotten a 600 on the ninth grade world history SOL, which I feel like is a little more impressive than sixth grade.
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Sydney
Just saying I got a five on the AP U.S. history exam to–
Elisha: No one cares!
Sydney: Ohhhh, it’s okay when you–
Elisha: I’m just a little upset. You insulted that my perfect score. Like, did you get a perfect score on the 600 history SOL? No.
Sydney: Yeah, I did. I just said these are the ninth grade. I wasn’t here in sixth grade.
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Elisha: That’s not my fault.
Sydney: I don’t have any of the notes on this. I’m learning this history for the first time today with you all so well.
Elisha: Yeah–
Sydney: Hopefully we create some raw, authentic moment.
Elisha: Topic today is Bunnyman Bridge. More over, though. We’re going to be talking about Bunnyman in general. Bunnyman Bridge is just a particular location where the Bunnyman has been cited multiple times.
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Elisha: First, let’s get into the location. The location of Bunnyman Bridge is called Colchester Overpass in Clifton, Virginia. The Colchester Overpass is in Fairfax County. It is a bridge with a train on top. Bunnyman kind of haunts all of the DMV area, which is District of Columbia, Maryland to Virginia. He’s known to kind of be around all those places, particularly in the seventies which as we know the seventies is when all the serial killers happened.
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Elisha: Let’s go into the Google reviews. I’m starting with the Google reviews.
Sydney: *pause* Okay.
Elisha: And then we’ll get into the history. So 3.7 out of five out of 115 reviews. Yeah, that’s good, it’s okay. Anisa Glowczak said nothing scary here at least during the daytime. Just a cute unique bridge that is located in a beautiful wooded neighborhood.
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As a lover of horror and urban legend, I simply had to visit when I was in the area for business. I imagine it could feel more quotation marks scary after dark. Since there’s nothing much around.
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Elisha: Ivana Canizalez says,
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SMH, shake my head for you Boomers the bridge had a new paint–
Sydney: Boomers are not watching this.
Elisha: Yes they are. “SMH shake my head bridge had a new paint job and streetlight that totally killed the vibe.”
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I can’t believe the gentrification of this bridge.
Sydney: Oh my God.
Elisha: Jeff Whitbread says, “I was there on several nights in high school. I remember one very, scary night with my girlfriend at the time, Karen. We heard a sound, then a gunshot and a horrible scream. We were walking on the tracks trying to get away from the train,
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which came barreling down the tracks and nearly killed us.”
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The train passed and everything was silent.
Sydney: Okay. Still no Bunnyman.
Elisha: He heard a gunshot and a scream. That’s someone else getting killed by the Bunnyman.
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Elisha
Someone who lives there. What’s their name? Ryan, or no. Tricia Dean. Tricia Dean, who lives in the area. She doesn’t live at the Bunnyman Bridge because basically the bridge is surrounded by a subdivision with houses from what we saw.
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Elisha:
So anyways, this lady, Tracy says, “she lives here, but not locally. She says there’s a mix of nothing ever happens here and they’re pulling a dead body out of the ravine again. She says kids stay sober, stay off the tracks and wear bright colors at night. Yes, woods are very creepy. And I drive under the bridge and then old Clifton for some ice cream or dinner.”
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Elisha: That’s nice, I think–
Sydney: OR H-Mart.
Elisha: We went to H-Mart. Ryan Lombardo says, “Do not go. I saw him. And he chased me at least half a mile down the road. This is not a joke. Do not go.” He gave a one star.
Sydney: Okay, so maybe he was pulling all that review down. He was pull– he was putting in work to drag down the average.
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Elisha: Yeah.
Sydney: Why would you rate at one star if you got scary. If you show up to a spooky place you should want to be scared I feel like for me personally.
Elisha: So let’s get in to my sources and then we’re going to get in to the history. So my sources are as follows.
Sydney: It’s true.
Elisha: It’s true. My main sources to derive all of the information was through this article titled The Real Life Origins of an Urban-Legend by Brian a Connelly.
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Elisha
Brian Connelly as a historian, an archivist for the Fairfax County Library. He devoted a lot of research to this because basically this lore had been existing in this area and people would come to him and always bring it up. He’s from Fairfax, studied somewhere else and came back and when he got this job, he was like, You know what?
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Elisha:
I was going to research this and get all the history out there and squash the rumors. He derived his information from newspapers. The Washington Post is the primary newspaper because it’s super close to D.C. This was also on a Fox News show apparently called The Scariest Places on Earth. This had a whole episode dedicated to it. I, I derived some of my information from there.
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Elisha: The Minneapolis Star had a article.
Sydney: Now why?
Elisha: So when I were doing research for this podcast, what I find out is if it’s this slow news day in other areas, they’ll pick up the biggest news from somewhere out. So when I did my research for the second episode, I had a lot of **** from Arkansas have information on it.
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Elisha: The most common verbal legend that goes around as if you go there and say, Bunnyman Three times. Bunnyman, Bunnyman, Bunnyman, The bunny man will appear and he will attack you with an ax, a hatchet, something like that.
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Elisha: And supposedly the Bunnyman is an escaped convict or an escaped asylum resident that lives in the woods around this bridge.
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Elisha: And he kills rabbits for sustenance. And then he uses the skin as his clothing and he makes the skin into a bunny outfit. The story continues. And that when kids saw him and made fun of this poor man, he then killed the children and he skinned their children and then hung the children’s bodies from the bridge for I had never heard of it.
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Elisha: Have you heard of it before?
Sydney: No, although it’s not particularly what’s the word, It’s not a particularly fresh concept. I feel like you hear about people in fur suits doing creepy shit all the time.
Elisha: Yeah, well, there–
Sydney: iI the Bunnyman what inspired five nights at Freddy’s. More on that.
Elisha: It did not inspire that movie I have.
Sydney: It was a video game.
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Elisha: Okay. But it did inspire a movie. The the movie it inspired was Bunnyman, Bunnyman Two, Bunnyman Vengeance.
Sydney: Yeah. Got a chainsaw?
Elisha: Yeah. Well, our buddy
Sydney: the hot girl.
Elisha: Yeah, of course. Director is Carl Lindbergh. So Brian has three, three stories, which he thinks are cold, hard facts about the Bunnyman’s existence. So first, Brian says Frances and June Holober in February of 1949.
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Elisha: So this was the gruesome murder of 37 year old Frances Holober and her eight month old daughter. On Thursday, Friday 24th, 1949, Mrs. Holober and her daughter were being driven through Fairfax County by her estranged husband, Charles. They were residents of the District Columbia, obviously, and this is probably when this was not as developed. So they’re kind of driving through the countryside.
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Elisha: They have car issues. And Charles, the estranged husband and wife, get in an argument and she ends up supposedly taking the kid and being like **** you, I’m taking this kid and I’m walking away. Charles claims to have spent the night in the car, get a ride back to Washington, D.C. The next day he calls his brother in law, which I guess is his ex-wife’s brother, and gets a ride back to go look for his daughter and wife because apparently they never turn up.
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Once they don’t turn up, he goes and reports the missing and then there’s an intensive search involving the Fairfax County police, Washington detectives and Boy Scouts. That’s a direct quote from our guy, Brian. Around 5 p.m. the night after they go missing and the car has broken down and all of that, they’re about to give up and they find this area of the land that clearly looks disturbed near the train tracks and they find a shallow grave less than 200 yards from where Charles’s car was, appears that Frances, his ex-wife, has been beaten and then shot once in the head and the heart and the baby was buried alive.
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Obviously, people were really shocked to hear this and scared, especially when well, obviously when these things happen. His estranged husband, the estranged husband,
Sydney: He did it!
Elisha: –obviously the primary suspect. Charles later confesses that he planned this murder for weeks and then did not intend to report there disappearance. But when the car got caught in the mud and there was so much your car stuck there, there’s tire tracks.
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There’s a lot people probably saw his car driving down that street. He knew there was so much evidence about it that he was like, I’m just going to have to report the missing now instead of just killing them and try to get away from it.
Sydney: Yeah.
Elisha: And so he goes to trial, they find him guilty, and he ends up getting sentenced to an electric chair.
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Charles’s attorney tries to get him out of there by pleading insanity. The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals overturns the eviction and orders a new trial and then he is committed to the Western state mental hospital, which apparently he had spent some time in before. And he was declared to be insane. So, yeah, that’s the first theory of the Bunnyman, is that it’s a it’s the lore around this gentleman who killed his wife and kid.
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Brian’s second theory is that a man named Louis Boresig might be the identity of the man. And he killed Minnie, Loretta and Catherine Ridgeway. Minnie and her husband had three children. They lived in Alexandria, Virginia, on March 4th, 1927, Louis Boresig, called the Ridgeway house and was saying like, I want to see you, Mrs. Ridgeway. For whatever reason, we don’t he doesn’t really go into the reason–
Sydney: Maybe he was a suitor.
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Elisha: Perhaps maybe he was the milk man. I don’t know. Once he got to the house, Boresig attacked and beat Minnie Ridgeway into unconsciousness and then bludgeoned her daughters, Loretta and Catherine. He then stole money from the home and fled. And that’s a direct quote from Brian.
Sydney: Not a suitor.
Elisha: Not a suitor. The crime was discovered by a neighbor who heard the moans coming from the house.
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All three victims were taken to the Alexandria Hospital. Catherine Ridgeway lived another eight days. Minnie recovered and was able to identify the assailant. And then Boresig was arrested at his home and transferred to the jail in Winchester for his safety. And then Loretta died as well. Boresig he was executed for the murders of Loretta and Catherine Ridgeway on July seven, which is just three months after his horrific crime.
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Sydney: So did they, so is the reason that they think he’s the Bunnyman. Is he, like, escaped the executions?
Elisha: Yeah, I think it’s like he was on the run in the outlying areas of Northern Virginia. His third theory involves the story of Eva Roy. So, Peter Roy came to Fairfax from Minnesota. He was a Danish immigrant and he purchased two areas of land in Northern Virginia spanning 180 acres.
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Roy was a widower and he became he had a good farm. He was a church man, and he lived with his oldest daughter, Caroline, who had a husband who was William K. Jerman and his younger daughter Eva. On the morning of August 4th, 1918,
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Eva Roy, who was 14 at the time, left her home in Burke, Virginia, at nine to go handle Mr. Roy’s small herd of cows.
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She ended up not returning home, and obviously Father began searching around the 24 hour mark after she went missing, her body was found tied to a tree in the woods and her apron strings were tied around her throat. Yeah, she was suffocated. The coroner at the time declared that she was brutally strangled to death. I don’t know if this is still a thing, but apparently, if a coroner claims someone was assaulted or murdered or something brutal, a sort of natural death, they have to go to a jury and the jury has to also agree.
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They go to the jury. The jury agrees that Eva Roy was killed by an unknown person. And so now let’s get into who they think killed Eva. The first suspect in Eva’s murder is William Wooster, who was 16. He was arrested for assaulting a black girl, and he was recently released from an insane asylum.
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But it was later found out he was nowhere near the scene of the crime and he had alibis, when Eva was murdered.
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The next suspect was ex-soldier, which they chose not to name, but it’s an ex-soldier and he apparently left, deserted, whatever military camp he was on. He was seen in Charlottesville, Virginia, with scratches on his face and hands and freshly laundered clothes. He claimed to have no memory of the events between him leaving the soldier camp that he abandoned and his capture because they were capturing him to be like
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Why the **** did you leave the soldier camp. And anyway, he had scratches and s***, which was weird. And so then they were like, Maybe this guy murdered Eva. After they investigated, they found out he was not connected to the crime. The last part of the investigation went to Ben Ruben was an escaped inmate from Lorton Prison. Lorton Prison was–
Sydney: Panopticon.
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Panopticon. Come on. PenaAPTicon. Hold on. Panoptican.
Elisha: So the third theory is this guy, Ben Ruben, who escaped Lorton Prison, which is also in Northern Virginia, he had been serving in jail for housebreaking, and he was arrested on September 19th for assaulting a little girl.
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While they were bringing him to the police station.
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He confessed to the murder of Eva, and he claims that he met Eva Roy looking after her father’s cows. And when he asked her for food and a conversation with her, he told her he was an ex-convict. She declared that she would turn him up, meaning, I guess, turn him in. And he became excited and choked her. So the authorities, when they heard this, did not believe Ben Ruben.
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They investigated further and concluded, despite this claim, he did not actually murder her. The reason he claimed to have murdered her, he blames on the fact that apparently Eva’s father was in the room when he gave this confession, but it was later revealed he just wanted to go to the Fairfax prison versus the Lorton Prison because it was easier to escape the Fairfax prison because they didn’t I guess the Fairfax prison didn’t have the Panopticon or whatever.
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Sydney: Is this is this something prisoners would tell each other? Is this like back in the day you think prisoners were telling each other the T on the other prisons? How do you think they found that out?
Elisha: I am sure they were letting each other know what was going on.
Sydney: The judge was about to convict them and they were like, I hope I end up in Fairfax.
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Elisha: Yeah. Eventually Lou Hall was tried for the murder. His first trial resulted in him being nine votes for guilty, three for innocent.
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But then his second trial gave him a verdict of not guilty.
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Eva’s father died in 1938, and he was buried next to his daughter and–
Sydney: Do we think he did it? Do we think he might have done it?
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Elisha: There’s no speculation that he did it at all. Why would he kill his own daughter? It didn’t seem like they had anything going on. There’s no speculation of that. I’m sure he was–
Sydney: Question, too. I want to know why they didn’t think it was him. Like why they didn’t think it was the dad.
Elisha: Yeah, I don’t know, girl.
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Sydney: Wait, you said the wife was around, right? His wife. The mom lived with them. So whose wife was living like–
Elisha: He was a widower he didn’t have a wife?
Sydney: Then who else was living with–
Elisha: His other daughter and her husband? yeah. But also this is back in 1918. So people were just murdering people and getting away with it all the time.
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Sydney: Yeah, but I still believe it has to be someone she knew. I don’t know.
Elisha: I don’t know.
Sydeny: But the theory here is that whoever was her killer was the Bunnyman.
Elisha: Yes. Okay, Well, because it fits the ticket. Either someone escaped from prison, someone from an asylum, or the one guy who was the ex soldier. That doesn’t fit the ticket.
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But the three suspects. Two of the three suspects fit the ticket of who the Bunnyman could be and his identity.
Sydney: And he doesn’t have to be any of them, and he still could have killed her. He could be–
Elisha: Yeah, well, and that’s the thing, Brian, the historian claims that after all of this, he cannot conclude that any of these are the Bunnyman.
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And all of these people had died previous to the 1970s sightings of Bunnyman.
Sydney: Okay.
Elisha: But he does. He’s basically saying this history may or may not have been what created the asylum story or the escaped convict story, because those two stories are the leading ideas. And he is trying and he was trying to investigate the grounds behind those ideas.
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This is what might have driven the urban legend. Now, we’re going to switch from Brian’s amazing archive in history and go into the actual sightings of the Bunnyman. The first story we have about the actual sighting of the Bunnyman is with Air Force Academy cadet Robert Bennett. So Robert Bennett is in his car with his fiancee and they’re sitting by the Bunnyman Bridge.
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Sydney: Are they *******? They’re *******!
Elisha: They’re doing something
Sydney: Necking. Couldn’t let him put it in yet. Cut that out–
Elisha: They’re chillin, doing, you know, whatever– Since it says finacee we can assume that Cadet Robert probably lived in the barracks and was looking for some private time.
Sydney: Just the tip in.
Elisha: We know how this goes. Excuse me.
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And he was at the 4,500 block of Guinea Road. So I don’t actually know if this was near the bridge–
Sydney: You’re are so bad.
Elisha: Where’s Guinea Road? Hold on. no.
Sydney: This is. I feel so bad. Your pilot episode. You really should have had someone more supportive on here.
Elisha: Yeah, You’re being an a$$hole. **** you. Yeah, it’s all in Northern Virginia. Cadet Robert is quoted in saying, “Dressed in a white suit with long bunny ears.”
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He heard a man scream, ‘You’re on private property, and I have your tag number.’ He’s claims that the rabbit threw a wooden handled hatchet right through the front car window, and as soon as he threw the hatchet, the rabbit skipped off into the night and him and his fiancee, they were not injured. They then go to the police to report what was happened.
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Sydney: So the guy in the bunny suit yelled at them to get off the private property and then —
Elisha: Yeah, and then threw the hatchet apparently through the front window into the car.
Sydney: I mean, that’s that’s just protecting your property.
Elisha: Yeah, that’s it. Yeah.
Sydney: And so that was just a dude in a fur suit minding his business, then these two people come along trying to
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**** on his land.
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Elisha: Right? That’s one of the most soundproofed sightings of the Bunnyman. And the reason they believe this is really sound is obviously it’s a cadet. They want to believe this man in the military was telling the truth. And then second of all, it doesn’t seem like this man has any reason to lie.
Sydney: I mean, the guy says you’re on private property and I have your tag number.
00;28;26;16 – 00;28;50;26
That sounds like the dude was like, this is my property. Let me go up and scare these kids and leave.
Elisha: That’s what it seems like.
Sydney: And then tell other people and I’ll just get left. The hell alone.
Elisha: Yeah, exactly. That’s what it seems like. So two weeks later, another report was made and I’ll say outside of this, this was reported through a Maryland Virginia, D.C., on and off for years.
00;28;50;29 – 00;29;12;12
So this article is titled The Rabbit Reappears, a man wearing a furry rabbit suit with two long ears appeared this time wielding an ax and chopping away at a roof. Support on a new house. Less than two weeks ago, a man wearing a bunny suit accused two persons and a parked car of trespassing and heaved a hatchet through a closed window.
00;29;12;12 – 00;29;38;09
This was the cadet. They were not hurt. Thursday night, a man wearing a bunny suit described as gray, black and white was spotted in the block alley at 5307 Guinea Road, a security guard for the construction company working on the house, saw the quote unquote, rabbit standing at the front porch of a new unoccupied house. The security guard, Phillips started talking to him, and that’s when the Bunnyman started chopping.
00;29;38;10 – 00;29;59;01
All of you trespass around here, Phillips said to the rabbit, told him as he hacked gashes in the pole. If you don’t get out of here, I’m going to bust you on the head. PHILLIPS said he walked back to his car to get his handgun, but the rabbit carrying the long handled ax ran off into the woods. The security guard said that the man was about five eight, 160 pounds and appeared to be in his early twenties.
00;29;59;01 – 00;30;25;08
The officers never found the rabbit and there was an investigation and they never found him either. So the investigator, W.L. Johnson, when he started the investigation, the area that was getting developed was Kings Park West, which I almost took you to, but I decided not to.
Sydney: So this was after we visited the bridge, Elisha was like, let me see if I can find the secondary location.
00;30;25;08 – 00;30;51;27
We did not make it in–
Elisha: But we went, yeah,
Sydney: we were to H-Mart.
Elisha: But the B-roll will have the primary location. Kings Park West was the subdivision that was being talked about. The investigator obviously was searching for things. He never came up with anything. But after he went and questioned the people of King Parks West, he got a call and the call was from someone who called themselves the AX Man.
00;30;51;27 – 00;31;12;26
And he said, You have been messing up my property by dumping tree stumps, limbs and brush and other things on the property. You can make everything right by meeting me tonight and talking about the situation. And it’s they claim it was once again a man in his twenties that made the call. The police obviously staked out the area.
00;31;12;26 – 00;31;31;27
for the ax man and he never showed up.
Sydney: So how could you tell? Okay, late teens, maybe your voice. You can tell. Can you tell someone if they’re on their twenties?
Elisha: Yeah. All right. I mean, I’m sure they had I’m sure the dude had, like, slang or you had, like, the, likes and ums or something like that.
00;31;32;02 – 00;31;55;22
So I’m sure there was some way at the time they can identify his age. Those were the two confirmed cases of the Bunnyman existing. They happened two weeks within each other. One was with a cadet and one was a security officer. So they do believe that this is a factual occurrence because two reputable people saw it and there was someone who called an investigator there claiming to be the ax man in the story.
00;31;55;22 – 00;32;18;07
Sydney: It isn’t that scary? Is that–
Elisha: No one died, No one died. The first part we talked about with Brian, and he’s trying to tell us why he thinks the story came about and who the possible identities are under the understanding are escaped asylum person or escaped prison convict. What is your take? What do you think?
Sydney: Okay, real quick. It was the Bunnyman
00;32;18;14 – 00;32;42;25
The guy in the bunny suit actually seen before the seventies are the only two instances that you could find on it were the ones of the guy telling the people to get off his land.
Elisha: There were more instances the bunny man had been reported before. I think these are just the most solid instances.
Sydney: Can we talk about the creepy, not solid ones for fun?
00;32;42;28 – 00;33;09;23
I mean, I know at the beginning we talked about the Bunnyman who killed the kids and like, skin them and hung them up on the road.
Elisha: Right.
Sydney: Is there are there any more specifics on that?
Elisha: So this is an article from the University of Maryland. It’s talking about the Bunnyman in 1973, University of Maryland student Patricia Johnson submitted a research paper that chronicled precisely 54 variations of these events.
00;33;09;25 – 00;33;35;02
Sydney: That sounds like some shit I was doing in college.
Elisha: So your question was, what about the other stories she’s saying? There are 54 reports, all of people saying they’ve seen them, especially around Halloween. So what do you want to know about the other report?
Sydney: I want to interview the Yelp or Google reviewer who said that they were chased by the Bunnyman.
00;33;35;05 – 00;33;56;25
At the end of the day, I think that no killings took place. It was just a furry who was trying to scare some people.
Elisha: So were you scared when we went there?
Sydney: You know, what was scary? The chainsaw noises. There was some guy cutting, cutting trees down and we pulled up. He was not in a bunny suit down.
00;33;56;26 – 00;34;24;03
He just had a chain saw that kind of added some tension to the moment. I thought there was there was a stream running through that definitely added something.
Elisha: But were you scared?
Sydney: No, it would have been really funny if one of those people always on the property told us to leave in a bunny suit that would have– as someone who was trying to build up support for this podcast, I think the Bunnyman is real.
00;34;24;04 – 00;34;51;05
He’s a killer. Watch your back, if you’re in Northern Virginia.
Elisha: How many EEHs do you give the Bunnyman?
Sydney: You know, I give a 1 to 2.
Elisha: 1 to 2.
Sydney: It’s not it’s not giving EEH. It’s giving ehh.
Elisha: It’s giving ehh.
Sydney: And I don’t think so. I want to say the drive was lovely. I enjoyed it. If although there was that Bunnyman was there graffiti that was fun.
00;34;51;06 – 00;35;11;02
Well, we saw a caterpillar. What did you think about it? Were you scared?
Elisha: I wasn’t scared. The place in the second and third episode, I got really spooked there and I thought,
Sydney: Let’s build it up.
Elisha: Yeah, the. And I don’t get spooked very often.
Sydney: If we had went at night, I could see it being very scary.
00;35;11;09 – 00;35;37;26
But it was like 3 p.m..
Elisha: I agree with you. 1 to 2 is not very scary. Well, thank you for coming.
Sydney: Thank you for having me. And I hope you’ll tune in next month for–
Together: EEH
Sydney: That was not harmonized. Do that again–
Elisha: And I hope you’ll tune in next month for our new episode of–
Together: EEH!
Sydney: We’re going low?
Elisha: Well, you have the high, I’m the bass.
00;35;37;27 – 00;35;47;26
Sydney: Yeah, but you’re base. You really okay, I don’t think we’re getting it. All right.
00;35;47;26 – 00;36;01;05
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Pugh, Kari. “Bunny Man Bridge: Fact or Fiction? The Truth behind The Chilling Legend.” INSIDENOVA.COM, 30 Oct. 2021, www.insidenova.com/headlines/bunny-man-bridge-the-scary-truth-behind-an-infamous-urban-legend/article_a27c7000-dca4-11e8-ad84-af51d935cbcb.html.
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