The Bramshall Bunnyman ...
The Black Rabbit Man of Bramshall Woods
I have heard this disturbing tale on a couple of occasions sometimes seen in Bramshall Woods next to the Strawberry Farm and also across the valley in Eaton Plantation at Loxley. It is both odd and amusing, but it sends a shiver up my spine every time. Here is what I have been told ...
"I was up the woods, walking the dog, and felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. The dog started pulling in the opposite direction and whining. Then in the dusk light, and a faint evening mist I saw him.
He wasn't anything extraordinary from a distance, about five foot five, well built, and with broad shoulders - his face was a walnut brown, like the skin of a man who spent a lot of time outdoors and he seemed to be wandering as relaxed as you like through the ferns. Something rustled around his feet. Like a shadow, several small objects which were baby rabbits - small totally black rabbits, not grey or brown like they are usually up there.
He was getting closer now and was smiling. He was dressed in clothing I had seen in the war years, also old and worn. He nodded his head to me - 'O-rate' he said and I stuttered watching the dozen or so kits about his feet. I asked if they were his.
"Ar .. mine, too many, had to let 'em loose and look after them in the woods "... He walked by without stopping, then I saw he only had two teeth in his mouth, buck teeth. Then I realised what I thought was black hair combed down the sides of his head were in fact ... ears and now horizontal to his head!
The air was intensely cold at that point, and I felt a sharp stabbing of fear. My jaw must have dropped and he chuckled as he sauntered by, with his rabbits milling about him about a foot above the ground, as was he. I don't go up there now, and never will. Nor will the dog - it was terrified."
As bizarre as it seems, this is a very common sighting across the UK. More and less jolly entities pop up in the USA, and to some extent inspire Donnie Darko ... He may or may not be a creature in his own right, he could be a Boggart manifesting the storyteller odd fear in this form or he could be some mischievous entity or spirit, or worse. However, our storyteller seems to have got off lightly on this occasion, if other stories of the Rabbit Man can be believed ...
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More Bunnymans stuff ... The True Story Of The Bunnyman, Northern Virginia’s Most Gruesome Urban Legend (ranker.com)
