NARRATOR: What you're about to see may be dangerous, illegal, unethical,
petty, misguided, immoral, and most definitely stupid.
But it's also all true.
Hmm. Sort of.
-(BELL TOLLING) -(WOLVES HOWLING)
BUNNIE: It was years ago when this happened.
I was always taught to respect cemeteries.
I didn't think we were messing with dark forces or anything.
♪ (TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: I was doing a pretty basic goth photoshoot.
-It was emotional. It was dark. -(SHUTTER CLICKS)
LESTER: Beautiful, baby. Darker. Darker, yeah.
BUNNIE: At one point,
I stood in front of this very tall,
very old concrete cross.
♪ I'm cutting sound ♪
♪ Sharpen a blade with a single... ♪
BUNNIE: I don't know if it got bumped,
-but it started falling forward. -(GRAVESTONE CRUMBLING)
-(SCREAMS) -(THUD)
Oh, fuck!
(MOANING)
BUNNIE: I'm basically paralyzed,
and I realize, "Shit,
I'm two and a half hours from home."
Now I'm gonna drive
to Jacksonville, but I can't feel my legs.
But we're gonna make it happen.
♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Hi! Come on in.
Hi, I'm Bunnie.
I'm a born and raised Floridian,
and I am what is called a Disney adult.
We're really just people
who can connect with our inner child,
and really enjoy the magic that is Disney.
But I also do things like modeling, fire spinning.
I've hung from hooks in my skin.
And then doing a lot of fetish videos.
Whenever anybody hears the word "fetish"
or "BDSM" or anything like that, they think of sex.
And that's not what it's about at all.
-(MOANING) -(CHUCKLES)
When I met Bunnie, she was a dominatrix.
My name is Livi. I am a yogi here in Orlando, Florida.
The way that I met Bunnie,
I had just been introduced to this particular local dungeon
to teach naked yoga.
She's walking in,
one of the gentlemen there said to me,
"In order for you to say hi to Bunnie,
you need to motorboat her."
So, I said, "Okay."
He grabbed my head and put me right in between her boobs,
and motorboat my head.
And then, that's how I met Bunnie. (giggles)
♪ Jesus loves me, this I know ♪
BUNNIE: You'd never guess it,
but I grew up in a very strict Christian home.
Amen.
BUNNIE: I didn't have any friends outside the church.
It felt like no one understood me.
No one understands me.
So, I would go online.
♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
It was the only way to meet new people.
You basically met people online,
but you didn't tell anybody you met anybody online.
MOM: Bunnie, are you meeting anybody online?
No, Mom, I'm not meeting anybody online.
Nice to meet you. I'm Bunnie.
So, it was around 2010 that I met this guy, Lester.
♪ (GOTHIC CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: He said things that really spoke to me.
I only smile when I'm bleeding.
BUNNIE: And he had such interesting things to say.
(KEYBOARD CLICKING)
We talked online and stuff.
We built a friendship,
or what I thought was a friendship.
LESTER: Your darkness is so beautiful.
BUNNIE: My favorite color is despair.
LESTER: Gravity is the world trying to hold us back.
BUNNIE: Reality is too literal for me.
LESTER: Let's put the "art" in "heartbreak."
BUNNIE: The only thing I trust is decay.
LESTER: Every day is an apocalypse.
BUNNIE: Every time I blink, a moment dies.
At the time, I lived in Jacksonville and he lived in Orlando.
And that's when he asked me to come down and visit him.
LESTER: Abandon your life there.
Leave Jacksonville.
Come to a real city, to Orlando.
I don't know.
LESTER: It's your destiny. You were meant to be...
worshipped.
That's true.
Okay.
So, I came down to Orlando.
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Fuck you, Jacksonville.
(DOORBELL RINGS)
LESTER: Hi.
Hi.
BUNNIE: I finally met Lester in person.
He was a model as well.
Very feminine looking, very androgynous.
-Hey. -Hi.
BUNNIE: And he also lived with his dad.
I remember his dad was like an official Sith Lord preacher.
It's a cute place. Just you two?
-There can be only two. -Master.
Like, Sith is actually a religion in Florida,
and he actually was one.
(CACKLING)
BUNNIE: But I kind of go with the flow.
(LAUGHING NERVOUSLY)
And I like to see where life takes me.
Welcome to my studio.
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Beautiful.
It felt nice to have this friend
that I thought was somebody who understood me.
I understand you.
BUNNIE: Lester felt like he was a kindred spirit,
because they were so different looking themselves.
-You're so different. -Fuck normal.
-It still wasn't popular to be like this. -Fuck popular.
And I felt that it was really cool that he was just himself.
Fuck...
everyone else.
Fuck everyone else.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: He helped me see myself in a new light.
It was cool to see, like, such beautiful work.
LESTER: Oh, that's it. Yes. Yeah.
-Yes. -BUNNIE: You could feel the emotion.
LESTER: Suffer for me!
BUNNIE: And it was a really good escape
from my home world and everything.
He pushed me out of my comfort zone...
toward new ideas, different beliefs. And it just...
-(SQUELCHES) -(SCREAMS)
-(CAMERA FLASHES) -(GOAT BLEATS)
...made me so excited.
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Later that night we went to a hotel room in a Motel 6.
I don't remember what caused us to do this,
but we ended up sitting fully clothed,
smoking weed in a bathtub full with water.
-(BOTH GIGGLING) -(BUNNIE COUGHING)
BUNNIE: Lester wanted to roll another joint.
-We're out of wraps. -No, we aren't.
BUNNIE: So, he said we should use pages from the Bible.
Won't that, like, open a door to Satan?
LESTER: Let him in.
It didn't really feel like we were working
with dark forces or anything like that.
♪ ("JESUS LOVES ME" PLAYING) ♪
♪ Yes, Jesus loves me ♪
♪ The Bible tells me so ♪
BUNNIE: So, the next day,
Lester invited me down to do a photo shoot
in a cemetery.
(CROWS CAWING)
(JUGGALO CHANTING IN LATIN)
-(DEMONIC HOWL) -(GOTH-ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
BUNNIE: Lester was very serious about this photo shoot.
That's it. Give me dark, twisted.
BUNNIE: He even had a weird juggalo assistant helping.
Keep chanting, Hansel.
(CHANTS IN LATIN, COUGHS)
I said twisted. Come on.
Yeah, fuck yeah.
I was raised to have a respect for cemeteries.
First off, you know, we're not doing anything disrespectful.
Desecrate it! I said desecrate it! That's someone's grandma!
Being back here again feels really weird.
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
This definitely reminds me of the cross that fell,
but this is a replacement 'cause that one broke.
The one that fell on me was bigger than this.
I found out later it weighed over 700 pounds.
♪ (GOTH-ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Lester had some photographers that he wanted us to work with.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS SNAPPING)
Oh, fuck yeah.
BUNNIE: It was really moody and beautiful.
LESTER: That's it.
And I had my hand up, and I was leaning like this.
Fuck yeah, you're from hell, baby.
BUNNIE: I'm not sure how it happened.
LESTER: Fuck yeah. That's it. That's so fucked up. That's it.
BUNNIE: The cross started tipping.
-(THUDS) -(LESTER GASPS)
Holy shit.
BUNNIE: It pinned me down.
Ow!
My hands were right here as I went...
went down, all the way back.
And then as I hit the ground, my hands went to the side.
Help.
They just stared at me and did nothing.
-It's so... -They called it...
...tragically beautiful!
-(EXCLAIMS) -(CAMERA SHUTTERS SNAPPING)
"Tragically beautiful."
Help!
They just kept taking pictures.
Hansel, more fog, man! Come on!
(COUGHING)
BUNNIE: There was this moment where it seemed like
Lester was actually gonna help me.
He took my head in his hands, and said...
Just chill.
BUNNIE: And then...
Hey, does this look cool?
I couldn't believe it. Lester is just posing.
(BUNNIE WHIMPERING)
I'm getting my insides crushed,
and he still thinks it's a photo shoot.
(SCREAMING)
He's like this, and like this.
♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: I remember I was lying there, thinking,
"Why did this happen to me?"
How did this happen to me?
BRIAN: We all wonder why bad things happen to us,
and sometimes it is demonic.
There's a lot of different ways to open doors
to Satan and sort of his kingdom.
-(CHURCH BELL TOLLING) -My name is Brian Holmes.
I'm the pastor and founder
of MPowered Christian Ministries.
You can open a door through satanic rituals, blasphemy.
Definitely smoking pages of the Bible
is either something led by demons,
or choosing to do that
will then open the door to the enemy.
-Won't that, like, open a door to Satan? -LESTER: Let him in.
-(GOAT BLEATING) -(DEMON LAUGHING)
I have three pieces of equipment here.
I'll just set these here.
My name is Larry Lawson.
I'm the director of the Florida Bureau
of Paranormal Investigation,
and the founder of Indian River Hauntings, LLC.
These are going to help me determine
if something demonic or paranormal
was happening that day.
Is there anybody out there who'd like to talk with us tonight?
We mean you no harm.
We're here out of the utmost respect.
(STATIC CRACKLING)
I'm just gonna wait here now.
You call out to me when you're ready.
(STATIC CRACKLING QUICKLY)
BUNNIE: Finally, I yelled at them.
(SCREAMING)
And I said, "Get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off."
Get it off.
(GRUNTING)
BUNNIE: They all tried to lift the cross together.
-(SCREAMS) -(LESTER SIGHING)
BUNNIE: And they could not. So...
(GRUNTS, SCREAMS)
I pushed it off of myself.
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
That whole adrenaline thing, you know,
"Grandmother lifting the car off a kid," is real.
-(GRUNTS) -(CROSS THUDS)
I still to this day remember it just being so light
to just throw it off, and it just... (IMITATES THUD) ...landed.
♪ (HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: That night, we went to the hospital.
DOCTOR: Hmm. How weird.
(TRILLING)
-Wow. -Wow?
I have never seen anyone crushed by a tombstone before.
That's a first.
The doctor literally touched my legs,
and said, "Can you feel that?"
-DOCTOR: Can you feel that? -No.
DOCTOR: This? That's fascinating.
DOCTOR: Hmm. It's just awful.
To be honest, I thought you weirdos were just making this up
to try and get drugs or something.
That's not the first time I've had doctors
literally think I was a drug seeker.
What kind of drugs could she get? Oxy? Vicodin?
Okay. I can see where this is headed.
He said, "Oh, you're fine. You're just bruised."
-You're fine. Just bruised. -I can't feel my legs though.
It's normal. Bruises often lead to paralysis.
You guys should go out, hit the clubs or something,
do whatever you want. Excuse me.
Get out of here. Scat! Scat!
Hit the club?
♪ (SOULFUL GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: And Lester said, "So, I'm leaving."
-So, I'm leaving. -What?
"Because I wanna dance."
Yeah, I gotta dance. Today's been rough. (CHUCKLES)
You seem good. Yeah, you seem great, actually.
So, drive safe.
BUNNIE: But I was like, "You know what? I just-- I have to go."
Come on, Bunnie. You got this.
It was about midnight, 01:00 in the morning.
I'm thinking it's about a two-and-a-half-hour drive home
from Orlando to Jacksonville, but I can't feel my legs.
But we're gonna make it happen.
♪ The silence spans forever ♪
It was kind of a struggle, but I made it into the car.
♪ It was nothing more Than the end of the world... ♪
(TIRES SCREECHING)
It was just kind of surreal.
♪ Hey, would you like to ♪
You got it, girl.
Yes, I was basically paralyzed.
I could not feel anything from the waist down.
I could not move my legs
without physically picking them up.
-(ENGINE REVVING) -♪ Let's start a band ♪
BUNNIE: Honestly, I did a pretty good job.
-Garbage day. Fuck! -(GARBAGE BINS CLATTER)
-Oops. -I mostly didn't hit anything.
-Oops, oops, oops, oops. -(TRASH THUDS)
BUNNIE: This road is terrible.
It has one of the highest death rates,
crashes, unexplainable things.
-(GRUNTS) -(HORN HONKING)
Sorry!
All I can say is I was very thankful
that cruise control was a thing.
And it was the one thing that worked on my car.
♪ We gotta get out... ♪
Of course, I ran out of gas. I pulled into the gas station...
(TIRES SCREECHING)
-...dragged myself out. -(EXCLAIMS)
It was a struggle, but I'm trained in taekwondo,
and they train us to crawl and stuff with our arms.
So, I was very well prepared to drag my body around.
(GRUNTING)
-(BELL DINGS) - ♪ (CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
-(BUNNIE FLOPPING ON FLOOR) -(THUDS)
BUNNIE: Pump two. Actually, two of these.
-(TIRES SCREECHING) -♪ Vampires forever ♪
Getting off of 95 to where my parents lived,
that was the most interesting part of navigating.
-(TIRES SCREECHING) -♪ And drive all night ♪
And you gotta go up the hill, and down the hill,
and around the curve, and around the other curve.
I'd hoped I could get home without waking my parents,
but that wasn't to be.
-(GARBAGE CANS THUDDING) -(GLASS SHATTERING)
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: When they saw how hurt I was...
-they called an ambulance. -(SIRENS WAILING)
By this time, my legs were very swollen, very yellow, very purple.
They did X-rays, CAT scans, blood tests, everything.
-What is it? -And they came in and said, "She's broke."
-She's broke. -I knew it.
She may never walk again.
I may never walk again.
And I had to wonder,
was God punishing me for the things I was doing?
Is God punishing me?
It might have been that, and also God sort of allowing it to happen
in order to help her have her wake-up call.
-(dramatic music playing) -LARRY: Hello out there. I'm here listening.
These documentary people would like to know
if Bunnie was being punished by God.
We might be able to hear you through... this device
if you'd like to talk with us.
(STATIC BUZZING FAINTLY)
Doesn't sound like there's a lot out there tonight.
With the facts that are on hand right now,
I don't think it was anything paranormal.
I don't think it was God punishing anybody.
I think it was just a terrible accident
where somebody got hurt doing something they loved.
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
BUNNIE: The doctor said, "It's just a blessing
that your breasts are so large."
It's just a blessing that your breasts are so large.
Thank you.
LIVI: The message I received was that her life was saved
because of her voluptuous chest.
You wanna keep this? No? Okay.
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
What's crazy is I never had
any official therapy or anything.
I taught myself how to walk again.
And it pretty much worked.
The only problem is sometimes, randomly,
you'll see me go to the side,
because my hip will just... (THUDS) ...for one second.
I mean, she's changed,
but I still see her as the gothic-style fluffy Bunnie,
you know, the badass, to me. That's how I see her.
Real power lies in not only finding yourself,
but accepting the person who you find.
♪ ("SHE WANTS TO BE ADORED" BY WINSTON GILES PLAYING) ♪
♪ Wrapped me up in fur ♪
♪ Tied me to the bed ♪
♪ She’s more than a tease ♪
♪ She really means to please ♪
♪ She's not to be ignored ♪
♪ She wants to be adored ♪
♪ She’s the queen of seduction ♪
♪ She truly loves to sin ♪
♪ She’s more than a tease ♪
♪ She really means to please ♪
♪ She’s not to be ignored ♪
♪ She wants to be adored ♪
♪ She’s not to be ignored ♪
♪ She wants to be adored ♪