The pet rabbit so large they thought he was possessed

Hefty: Ella McDonnell, aged ten, struggles to hold on to big bunny Ralph

Acorah, star of Most Haunted, felt Ralph was behind the spooky goings-on in the family home.
‘We are pretty sure our house is haunted by something or other, so Ralph went up to London with friends of ours to meet Derek Acorah,’ said owner Pauline Grant. ‘They said it was pretty spooky and he had a good old chat with Ralph about the spirits in our house.
‘He seemed to think Ralph was channelling the spirit of a ghoul. It sounds like a load of old nonsense but Ralph isn’t your average rabbit,’ she added.
Ralph’s mother, Amy, was the world’s biggest rabbit until her death last year. She weighed in at 19kg (42lb) and was 1.22m (4ft) long. Mrs Grant believes Ralph, even though he’s less than a year old, is already longer and heavier.
‘He is just so big. You do not fully realise until you pick him up,’ she said.
‘It really hits us in the pocket having to feed him but thankfully Ralph is so famous in the area that people stop me in supermarkets and offer to foot the bill.’
Ralph eats half a cabbage for breakfast and dinner and chomps down carrots and apples for lunch, costing the family about £10 a day to feed him at the Sussex Horse Rescue Trust in Uckfield, East Sussex.