Aaron Mahnke

Bennett and his fiancée were not injured.

Bennett was able to give the hatchet to the police, but they could garner very little evidence from it.

It's possible that they thought that the whole thing was an elaborate prank, but they would think again when the Bunny Man showed up two weeks later.

On Halloween of 1970, the Washington News reported that two nights prior, the Bunny Man had been spotted a second time.

Other newspapers soon picked up the story as well, and it spread like wildfire around the D.C.

area.

Another article read, Now the 5'8 man in rabbit's clothing has struck again.

A guard in a housing project under construction told police he came upon a figure in a white bunny suit with floppy ears chopping away with a hatchet at the porch of an unfinished house.

When the guard approached, the bunny man said, You are trespassing.

If you come any closer, I'll chop off your head.

The strange figure then turned and hippity-hopped off into the woods.

And yes, folks, that is a newspaper using the actual verb hippity-hopped in their article.

My, have we fallen from such lofty heights.

Fairfax police never filed a police report for the earlier car incident, but they did file a report for the October 29th vandalism.

The Washington Post even wrote on that very night, six police officers responded to a call for a, quote, subject dressed as a rabbit with an axe.

On Halloween night, Fairfax police received over 20 calls from people claiming to see the Bunny Man in their neighborhood.

Then, over the following weeks, police received dozens of tips from people claiming to know who the Bunny Man was or where he could be found.

But every allegation led to a dead end, and the Bunny Man made no more reappearances.

Local newspapers followed the story with bated breath, waiting for someone to quite literally unmask the Bunny Man.

Children started telling spooky stories about him on the playground.