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    <title>Qualla: Bunny Man</title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Northern Virginia's most enduring urban legend began with two real police reports in 1970, a hatchet through a car window, and a man in a rabbit costume who has haunted the Colchester Overpass ever since.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Bunny Man: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the evening of October 19, 1970, Air Force Academy Cadet Robert Bennett and his fiancee sat in their parked car on Guinea Road in Burke, Virginia, engine running, when something moved outside the rear window. A figure burst from the bushes dressed in a white suit with long bunny ears, screaming about trespassing and license plate numbers. Then the hatchet came through the passenger-side window. Bennett and his fiancee fled uninjured, the hatchet still on the floorboard. When police asked for a description, Bennett was adamant: the attacker wore a bunny suit. His fiancee disagreed about the ears but agreed about the white costume. The investigation went nowhere. And an urban legend was born.]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the evening of October 19, 1970, Air Force Academy Cadet Robert Bennett and his fiancee sat in their parked car on Guinea Road in Burke, Virginia, engine running, when something moved outside the rear window. A figure burst from the bushes dressed in a white suit with long bunny ears, screaming about trespassing and license plate numbers. Then the hatchet came through the passenger-side window. Bennett and his fiancee fled uninjured, the hatchet still on the floorboard. When police asked for a description, Bennett was adamant: the attacker wore a bunny suit. His fiancee disagreed about the ears but agreed about the white costume. The investigation went nowhere. And an urban legend was born.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/bunny-man/">Bunny Man on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: KeeferC | CC BY-SA 4.0</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bunny Man: Two Incidents, Ten Days Apart</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fairfax County Public Library historian-archivist Brian A. Conley spent years tracking down the real Bunny Man. He found exactly two verified incidents, both filed as vandalism reports in October 1970 in Burke, Virginia. The first was Bennett's hatchet encounter on the 19th. The ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fairfax County Public Library historian-archivist Brian A. Conley spent years tracking down the real Bunny Man. He found exactly two verified incidents, both filed as vandalism reports in October 1970 in Burke, Virginia. The first was Bennett's hatchet encounter on the 19th. The ...</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/bunny-man/">Bunny Man on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: KeeferC | CC BY-SA 4.0</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bunny Man: The Legend Grows Teeth</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. The real story was strange enough, but it was far too simple for the legend it became. Through decades of retelling, the Bunny Man acquired a name, a backstory, a body count, and a haunted bridge. Versions multiply: in some, he is an escaped psychiatric patient. In others, mutila...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. The real story was strange enough, but it was far too simple for the legend it became. Through decades of retelling, the Bunny Man acquired a name, a backstory, a body count, and a haunted bridge. Versions multiply: in some, he is an escaped psychiatric patient. In others, mutila...</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/bunny-man/">Bunny Man on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: KeeferC | CC BY-SA 4.0</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bunny Man: The Bridge That Draws Them In</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. Most versions of the legend center on the Colchester Overpass, a Southern Railway bridge spanning Colchester Road near Clifton, Virginia, which locals know simply as Bunny Man Bridge. The overpass sits near the site of Sangster's Station, a Civil War-era railroad stop on the old ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. Most versions of the legend center on the Colchester Overpass, a Southern Railway bridge spanning Colchester Road near Clifton, Virginia, which locals know simply as Bunny Man Bridge. The overpass sits near the site of Sangster's Station, a Civil War-era railroad stop on the old ...</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/bunny-man/">Bunny Man on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: KeeferC | CC BY-SA 4.0</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bunny Man: Across the Atlantic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Bunny Man did not stay in Virginia. A variant surfaced in England, where detainees at a police station in Wembley were said to have been beaten by an assailant in a bunny mascot costume. In one version, when the station closed years later, a locker was forced open to reveal t...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Bunny Man did not stay in Virginia. A variant surfaced in England, where detainees at a police station in Wembley were said to have been beaten by an assailant in a bunny mascot costume. In one version, when the station closed years later, a locker was forced open to reveal t...</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/bunny-man/">Bunny Man on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: KeeferC | CC BY-SA 4.0</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bunny Man: What Remains</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. The hatchet is real. The police reports are real. Bennett's testimony is in the Fairfax County archives. Beyond those facts, almost everything attached to the Bunny Man legend is invention. But that has never diminished its hold on northern Virginia. The Colchester Overpass still...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit KeeferC, CC BY-SA 4.0. The hatchet is real. The police reports are real. Bennett's testimony is in the Fairfax County archives. Beyond those facts, almost everything attached to the Bunny Man legend is invention. But that has never diminished its hold on northern Virginia. The Colchester Overpass still...</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/bunny-man/">Bunny Man on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: KeeferC | CC BY-SA 4.0</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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