About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "The New Monsters: The Bunny Man - Part Three" from THE DEVIL WITHIN covers the final chapter of the investigation into The Bunny Man, subtitled "Midnight at the Overpass." It traces how two reported 1970 encounters with a rabbit-costumed, weapon-carrying figure in Fairfax County, Virginia, evolved into a teenage ritual at Bunny Man Bridge outside Clifton, where visitors were told to arrive at midnight, kill the headlights and say his name three times. The episode places that ritual, known among folklorists as legend tripping, alongside the wider anxieties of the era: stranger danger, the Satanic Panic, and slasher films that turned ordinary suburbs into hunting grounds. It also follows how dial-up internet access allowed invented details like an escaped asylum inmate to spread and harden into accepted "fact." The episode ends by stripping away decades of embellishment to revisit the original two 1970 incidents, concluding that the identity of the person in the suit remains unresolved, before previewing the next installment on the Loveland Frogman.
Hosts and release
No host is named for this installment. The episode runs 23 minutes and was released as part of The New Monsters strand on THE DEVIL WITHIN. Listeners can find flere episoder af showet for the rest of the Bunny Man series and other entries in the anthology.
