Aaron Mahnke

Psychologists weighed in on his mental state, garnering fun headlines like, Doctors Say Bunny Man's Mind Is Hopping.

But the man behind the mask would never be found.

As the weeks passed by, people began to lose hope.

December headlines morosely announced, Bunny Man Hunt Ends and Bunny Man Hops Away.

On March 14th of 1971, the police marked the case as inactive.

But just because the police stopped searching for the Bunny Man doesn't mean that the locals had lost interest.

You see, the Bunny Man quickly morphed into an urban Halloween legend.

And I mean quickly, too.

By 1973, the Bunny Man was showing up in Virginia college students' folklore essays as local urban legend.

Within the span of just three years, he had gone from a possible mentally disturbed individual to a bloodthirsty ghost ready to execute anyone who approached his domain on Halloween.

There is no Bunnyman ghost, but there was a Bunnyman.

So if you want to try your luck with the real deal, make your way to the Colchester Road Tunnel on Halloween night and keep an eye out for flying hatchets and cotton-tipped tails.

And if things get dicey, you can always hippity-hop away.

No one can deny it, Cannon Beach is beautiful.

An oceanside city in Clatsop County, Oregon, National Geographic even named the stunning coastline as one of the 100 most beautiful places back in 2013.

And yet, if the legends are true, lurking along this postcard-perfect coastline is a hideous monster.

And his name...

is Bandage Man.

The stories are said to stretch back to the 1950s, although some sources say it's older, others more recent.

Regardless of its start, though, the tale remains the same.