Aaron Mahnke

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.

It all began with a terrible accident.

Oregon, you see, is logging country, and there was always work to be done at the local lumber mill.

Trees to mill, sawdust to sweep, wood to chip.

It's back-breaking labor, involving a lot of pretty dangerous machinery.

The kind of machinery that could easily suck you in if you weren't careful.

They say that one night, a logger was hard at work when something went very wrong, and he was maimed beyond recognition.

An ambulance sped to the scene and haphazardly wrapped the man in bandages before rushing him toward the hospital.

Tragically, though, they would never arrive.