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Cryptids and UFOs in Virginia

Bunny Man: the creatures, UFO files and strange history of Virginia, all in one place.

  • 1 creatures with famous cases
  • 198 Air Force UFO files
  • 4 old newspaper reports

Creatures reported in Virginia

Bunny Manaka Bunnyman, Bunny Man BridgeA man in a rabbit suit with an axe, tied to a railroad overpass near Clifton, Virginia.

Famous cases

  1. 1970Hatchet thrown through a parked car's window on Guinea Road
    Bunny Man · Burke, Virginia
  2. 1970Man in rabbit costume chops at a porch post
    Bunny Man · Burke, Virginia

UFO files

From the old newspapers

Strange creatures, sea serpents and mystery airships reported in Virginia papers before 1927.

  1. 1869A strange animal caught near Farmville
    Farmville
  2. 1896A huge black eagle kills a calf
    Warm Springs
  3. 1901A creature with a hairy man's face in Lake Kilby
    Suffolk
  4. 1912A dog-killing beast in Highland Park
    Richmond

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