These frightening rabbits have people hopping for cover in the U.S.

A rapidly spreading virus is causing cottontail rabbits to grow black, tentacle-like growths out of their heads, prompting warnings to stay away from the mutated animals.

The creatures, dubbed “Frankenbunnnies,” have been seen multiple times in Fort Collins, Colo., per the New York Post .

“I thought he would die off during the winter, but he didn’t,” resident Susan Manfield told 9News, per the Post , after she said she saw a rabbit with what looked like “black quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around his or her mouth.”

However, she said, “he came back a second year, and it grew.”

Another person described the infected rabbits as having a “scabbiesh-looking growth over their face.”

The bunny problem is

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