The legend of the horned rabbit of the West

Utter poppycock! Jackalopes don't have horns, they have antlers.

When I was a teen my family took a road trip through South Dakota. They've got "trophies" of them them everywhere, restaurants, gas stations. It's a big thing.

My sister who was maybe 6 at the time swore up and down that she saw one on the drive. We all just said "Really?!" and laughed on the inside - didn't want to kill the joke.

To this day, some twenty years later, we still like to tease her about seeing a jackalope.

Not far from my neighborhood outside of Philadelphia, there is the Jackalope Research Institute [1]. I've often wondered what goes on in there, whether it is some eccentric would-be-scientist, tax dodge or money laundering scheme, or front for the KGB.

[1]. http://jackaloperesearchinstitute.org/

These always remind me of Bob Saget and his running gag on AFHV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By9sHP1MWVk

The German version of this is called „Wolpertinger“