I Went To Bunny Man Bridge In Virginia - Weird Urban Legend / Backwoods Relics & Historic Exploring
Bunny Man Bridge April 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday April
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10th 2023 I am in Virginia
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today before the end of the evening I
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must make my way Westward West South
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Westward to about the middle of the
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state
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I have just Departed the greater d swell
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I'm still in the greater DC area in a
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place
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called Vienna
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Virginia
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double V's remember how remember how
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easy it was to learn your ABCs
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think the Phoenicians
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they invented it
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also I think this applies to not
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going into the ship itself The
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Phoenician
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boat ship
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it's a boat or a ship
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or a dinghy
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join me
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Epcot reference spaceship birth
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reference shall you all right I found
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this railroad Depot here off the side
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railroad motor car mid 50s vintage motor
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car manufactured by Fairmount Railroad
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referred to as speeders
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track inspections
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we're done with that
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what's the name of this area we're in
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also Nikki is here
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you look confused
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you're a local you
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you are this is Fairfax Station
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see the sign over there
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when's the last time I saw you
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three years ago before the pandemic
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type c 31 Caboose built for the Norfolk
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and Western Railway
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the museum is closed at the moment but
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maybe I can Peak
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Fairfax Station established on the
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orange and Alexandria Railroad in 1851
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but originally known as Lee station
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that served the town of Providence
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located in Fairfax County Courthouse
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there's a Hog's head like they're all
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like you know broken down and a Hog's
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head what is a Hog's head
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Taco Virginia
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and they'd roll it to the stations they
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get to where it needs to go that way
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a Hog's head okay transport tobacco yeah
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overseas shipment
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rolled by workers were drawn by Ox over
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several miles of their destination
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I never realized you said I thought
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there was gonna be like a real Hog's
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head yeah there's a little tobacco in it
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like roll like interestingly transported
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in it yeah
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you ever been to Bunny Man Bunny Man
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Bridge before
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of the you have Legends so the bunny man
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is kind of like the Virginia or the DC
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because we're not far from DC
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their version of the Mothman almost
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something actually happened in Clifton
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all right have found a place to park
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a few hundred yards away from the
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buddyman bridge in fact there's a lot of
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local residents up here and they've
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placed I don't know if the local
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residents have but
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there are signs have been placed here
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saying no parking so I don't want
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anybody parking near the bunnyman bridge
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there is
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a car going underneath it I found
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another Bridge
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this is the over water Bridge the over
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water Bridge
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should probably get out of the road it's
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something pretty interesting around
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these parts there is bamboo
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I saw a bamboo Farm the other day or a
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bamboo forest the other day there's like
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a lot of bamboo here
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as well when you think of this area of
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the country you don't really think of
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bamboo too much
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I like the sound that bamboo makes
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you know when the wind can't really hear
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it
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the cars going by
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all right we're now walking up to this
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one lane bridge this tunnel
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that's not the bunny man that's just a
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local walking
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so it's kind of an interesting story do
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you remember the year
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100 years ago I know originally they
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said 1904
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good morning how you doing
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it's probably taking this coat off yes
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ma'am
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be safe
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so well over a hundred years ago there's
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an urban legend urban legends are
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interesting because you never know if
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they're true or not they kind of like
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morph and certain you know one thing
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with some person will tell one another
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person and that will kind of everything
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will escalate and change and the facts
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kind of
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sway just a little bit
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but basically the story of the buddyman
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is there was an asylum local Asylum and
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as the story goes on Halloween night
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of that year there was a bus crash
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from they were transporting from the
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Asylum and all of the everyone from
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from the property was found except for
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one person
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and that person became the legend of the
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bunny man
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am I kind of getting that right
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what are you looking at
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poison ivy
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yeah don't touch it
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that's Poison Ivy the fuzzy vines that
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grow up with tree those are poison ivy
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lines really yeah
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this one right here fuzzies okay so was
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the bus crash wasn't on Halloween night
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it was when
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the other event happened was on
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Halloween it just it's easily searchable
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online if you want to like read it some
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of some of the stuff is a little dark so
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don't want to get too much into it but
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the person that escaped that was not
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found who became the bunny man
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got that name because it was said that
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something that was on his head resembled
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bunny ears and also that he lived and
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ate and survived by eating local bunnies
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that they found
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through the woods I guess
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yeah
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there's a little bit of truth to it a
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little bit a little bit a little bit of
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true that something weird happened
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more things happen
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and they go to the local historians
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around the area and nope there was a
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black crow that just went by
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just checking to see if I tell the story
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right so there was a couple out here in
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the 1970s late 70s like 50 years past
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the time and they were chilling out and
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somebody came up through the vehicle and
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threw something at it and they looked up
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really quick and it was like this tall
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man figure dressed lightly with
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something on his head they don't know
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what it was but Bunny man got them but
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they were able to escape
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so that was like 50 years past the first
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event yeah
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so there's no parking here the locals
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have put a signs up everywhere so we
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parked past where the no parking signs
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are and we were walking up in a local
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resident lady not the kind lady that was
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walking through the tunnel but another
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property owner so can I help you we
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explained what we were doing they said
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you probably shouldn't be out here
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she really said she said she said you
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probably shouldn't be out here this is
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not a place to hang out that's what she
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says this is not a place to hang out
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I said I'm just a tourist when I want to
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do touristy things and you said you're a
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local and she kind of gave us the look
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like you're not supposed to be here
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you're all kind of reminding me you're
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doomed
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you're all to look I'm in the shadows
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you're all doomed
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I feel like we should go back this way
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and get more of a farther angle
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you want to go see if bunny man's over
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here
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no there's a sign down there all right
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we can't go any farther than this it is
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a private Bridal Trail
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so past this point
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so we got to go back on the main road
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it's a bridal Trail
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a bridal Trail for horses
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what are those
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like how ferns
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yeah and then like when open up they'll
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leave to go
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they so like the ferns and they're like
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pop like that they start off as little
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like Curly cues
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are they cute
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like that's what ferns look like before
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they like come out
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that's it I never realized that
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obviously ferns can be
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young ferns
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okay so after doing a little more quick
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research it's kind of it's kind of
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research urban legends because sometimes
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they're not true they are true and
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they're just exaggerated but evidently
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if you come out here on Halloween night
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there's a possibility of seeing
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the buddyman by his Bridge so that's not
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when the wreck happened but that is when
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people have said modern day they've seen
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the bunny man
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and I'm kind of glad we weren't out here
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yesterday because yesterday is a
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recording of This was Easter
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and if there's going to be
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a rabid bunny man around
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I would think it'd be on Easter
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so what they do is they just burrow in a
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little bit looking for a bug there's a
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bug right looking woodpecker that's a
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lucky spider but these are all
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woodpecker packs there looking for
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snacks
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probably got some snacks in that one and
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some snacks in that
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all right I was not expecting to go to
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the bunny man Bridge today but this is
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one of those things I've heard of but
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didn't realize I was so close to it
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yeah look at all the signs
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sign signs everywhere aside
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there's one up here now every time I see
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something like this obviously anybody
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can drive and walk through this so when
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I see these I always think that you're
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not supposed to climb up to the top of
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areas like earlier I Saw The Phoenician
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boat and they had a little waiting area
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outside of a restaurant but then there
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was a sign like this that told you you
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weren't supposed to go in the boat
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that's kind of how I'm reading that
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right you're not supposed to be climbing
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up there
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what would you take that as because
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anybody could walk or drive through in
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fact we drove through here on the way
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over here
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the road if you're saying this for this
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year it would be down lower but it's
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confusing it's talking above the road
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which is the uh Norfolk Southern Railway
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is that what that is yeah that's so you
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can totally walk here you think people
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show up here on Halloween night every
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year
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maybe that's why the locals were kind of
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frowning upon the fact that we were out
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hello
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pretty much the only two vehicles that
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drove past besides us and locals were
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delivery Vans did you notice that
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one was like a maintenance guy and one
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was a delivery van delivering something
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they're delivering bunnies to the bunny
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man I don't know
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I could see at night this would probably
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be
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kind of creepy out here there was no
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street lights
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oh that's true
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all right
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let's move on to some other spots
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who has the surveillance footage
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I want to see what happens in here after
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midnight on Halloween Eve her Easter
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Easter night
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another vehicle going through bunnyman
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Bridge
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that would be scary at night at night
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the creaking of the
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I almost said cranberries they're best
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that's the creaking of the creek the
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creaking of the bamboo
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creaking of The Cranberries
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or creaking of the bamboo
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we're driving up the road just a bit
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take a look at this old house over here
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on the side and the other side is an Old
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Mill
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see where the wheel used to be
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right there
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yeah that's pretty neat how's the little
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little brick and bike right there so the
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wheel was between the rocks and the barn
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this is a private residence huh
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it looks like you can see down the
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bottom like where the the water used to
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come through and then meet back down
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here at the river
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so they would have like the river come
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here and they had like a little Estuary
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that came up here and then
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so they got the water
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okay we just talked to one of the locals
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I guess one of the residents here he
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said that we could park over here
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and take a look yeah
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I don't know if it was pretty much
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locked up from safety because like the
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inside is pretty rotted out
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originally and you can still see that
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some of the
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metal yeah metal binding
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cool foreign
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that's cool
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wow
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so when they were held up in there they
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strived a
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their initials and names on the wall
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back in the day
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how old was that tree
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ready
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it's a big tree it was a big tree so
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here's a bridge here
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no bunny no bunny been underneath this
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one though
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there's a lot of really cool history
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around here not just urban legends but
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like historical stuff it was where the
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nation began
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look at this Barn Door up top see it
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this little door little window
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you see the little uh for electric for
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electrical wiring while they ran around
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the building
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oh yeah
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yeah this was an old plantation
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property so you got this here the
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Wheelhouse here Mill House
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got the
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Master quarters over there
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the main house over there so you just
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picture back in the day this newer
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roadway was not here probably just a
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little walkway wooden bridge it was all
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connected the same property
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you know progress though you got a main
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road going through there this looks like
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an old like Mickey D's table or
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something or Pizza Hut or something
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maybe Burger King yeah
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so we're now we're over in Burke
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I wanted to pass by here because there
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is a bar and grill
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or a brewery called Bunny Man Brewery
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it looks like it's open now this hour of
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the day
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oh my gosh look at the bunny man has a
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hatchet
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wow you said these have a cardboard cut
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out of the bunny man at one point
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oh my good you scared me
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is that the buddy man in the woods it is
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yeah you exit the bar
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had a few too many Heinekens
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I mean
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yeah no that's the bunny man
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Bridge oh yeah the tracks are back there
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Bridge would be that direction yeah
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Donnie Darko was like Loosely based on
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remember Frank the bunny and Donnie
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Darko Jake Gyllenhaal
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that would be kind of creepy at night oh
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my goodness and look at their logo here
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oh wow
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that's not good it's also interesting
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that technically I think I said a
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different I think I said Burke this is
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Fairfax Virginia maybe they're side by
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side
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just bringing in a couple kegs
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did he have a story to share with you
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Legend cell beer Legends sell beer
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look at these
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they're just going full on over here
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Legends sell beers true
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I believe in Legends but I don't drink
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beer so it doesn't work on me I'm immune
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to the bunny man beer
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I've now stopped off over at this church
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which has a lot of historical
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significance the battle of Manassas and
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Bull Run depending on which side North
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or South they refer to both those
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differently but there's a little
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birth of the Red Cross tied in to this
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church building
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and there's a grotto over here too as
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well
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yeah this is a skirmish that brought all
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the soldiers into the church that had
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the congregations
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so back in the day this was almost used
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as like a makeshift Hospital
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and one of the nurses that was here
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went on to form the Red Cross
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okay I'm not saying anything about the
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Red Cross on there
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yeah I don't see her name on there
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they said there was a plaque to Clara
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see they're wounded here oh there you go
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the direction
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I didn't even see that
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the idea that Red Cross was developed
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from the original pews or was developed
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the original pews were removed during a
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fire and were replaced
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by
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Ulysses S Grant
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but basically he didn't like the fact
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that the fire burned the pews out so he
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said get some new pews in here
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a lot of history in there
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it is pretty cool that Claire Barton was
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here went on to form the Red Cross
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and she was right here tending to the
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needs of
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of those inside this this church being
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used as a makeshift hospital now one of
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the guys is laid to rest here
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so everyone else that was
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that was here that passed on is now at
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Arlington National except for one guy
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and his family did not want him moved
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over to Arlington
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let's see if we could find his find his
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spot
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which is kind of interesting too
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Kidwell and what are the odds the one we
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were looking at and The Headstone was
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really kind of the giveaway
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James W Kidwell
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so everyone that he was with
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is over at Arlington now but his family
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wanted him to stay here
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look at that house over there
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nice
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you should go take a look at that Grotto
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also
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so I'm guessing the pews that are in
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here are probably the same ones that
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Grant
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had commissioned
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okay there's also a sign here to clear
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on the front here as well this is also a
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Virginia Historic Landmark
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so in this church of Saint Mary's from
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August 31st to September 1st 1862
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so that would only be one day
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okay August 31st is September 1st 1862
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is only one day
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it was just one day okay give me more
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than one day
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either way
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see how the cherry blossom trees
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blooming
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who arrive now at Pope's Head Park
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I'll look for some old remnants of an
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old base that's up here some remnants of
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a some concrete slabs from the
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back in the day see if we can find it
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not sure if we will or not
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so the last time there was a launch out
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here was
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63.
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I hear some deers over there so it's
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been 60 years since they launched
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anything from out here
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hear a lot of deer in the woods
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are there bears here just here
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all right we seem to have found some
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stuff there's like some concrete tubing
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and pipes back there
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so I guess this is where one of the
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spots were there you go remnants remains
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have been found I've got a tree grew on
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that one
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not really much left but there is some
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relics
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it's like 60 something years old all the
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stuff
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been driving for a waste west southwest
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ish over here to rest stop now
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I'm gonna end the video here
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cruising along got about another hour or
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so to drive before
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check into my hotel
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like to eat question mark thank a
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pollinator I think the Phoenicians
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earlier
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now I'm thinking a pollinator
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that truck just let off some steam left
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off some steam truck come on man my
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Arnold was a little off there
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thanks for watching I'll see you next
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next video
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the sun right there glaring through the
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sun's about to set
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the Vlog
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as ever bonus footage
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I've never had Dr Wham before it's a lot
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of Dr Pepper knockoffs
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I've never heard the cure for the common
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Cola
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my first time getting to Dr Wham
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still a little farther to drive this
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evening