This is the only known photograph of the tiny but lethal Bunny of Doom, rumored to populate remote areas of Bolivia, Estonia, and New Zealand.

Sent to the site by alert reader Dara (who I hope is OK), the Bunny of Doom is said to be exude toxic levels of cuteness, able to kill with a simple wave of its paws.  This lone photo is the only work which has survived from an expedition of sixty photojournalists sent in 1974 to track down the species and debunk the myth.

It was no myth.

Twenty men went to each location.  Only two came back.

One was blind.  He had stumbled and twisted his ankle while his team hiked through Estonia. When he looked up, all nineteen others in his party had fallen. Since he only glimpsed the bunny as it turned to leave, his cuteness exposure was thus non-lethal, but enough to burn his retinas clean through.  Crawling toward his comrades even as his own world went black, he courageously stripped the cameras from their limp bodies before staggering home, hoping to prevent others from sharing their ghastly fate. This photo is the only known image of the bunny which was taken on that day. We will never know which camera it came from, nor which cameraman gave his life to take it.

The other survivor, from the Bolivian expedition, simply went mad, spending the rest of his days saying nothing but the mysterious words, “so cute… so cute…”  No one knows how he survived.

The third group, sent to New Zealand, disappeared entirely.  Their fate has never been determined. 

Do not allow small children, the elderly, or people with weakened immune systems to view this photo.  If you feel the need to smile while looking at the photo, STOP IMMEDIATELY, LOOK AWAY, and do something substantially less cute.

You have been warned.