Name That Trauma :: Reader Rae M. on a Scary Train Riding Rabbit

Hey there,

When I was a kid, we had this unmarked VHS tape, and on it, was a short Christmas film. It was the ‘80s. All I can remember, and my brother too (up until a few years ago, I thought I had conjured up this nightmare, until one day we discovered we both remember the movie) is a 6-foot something man in a big old white bunny suit, ears erect, black eyes, pink tongue I think, and it was riding out of the side of a big old black steam railroad train.

It looked like a shitty winter, grey snow scattered around the ground but otherwise you just saw trees behind the passing train. And then you ended up in the North Pole. But that's all we remember; this scary, ominous, huge bunny. And I could swear it was not meant to be cute.

Ring any bells??

We've been trying to debunk this for years.

Thanks for your time,

— Rae M.