When most folks hear about a fantastical cryptid sighting, they
just assume it was a dubious, one-off, misinterpreted encounter
by the town drunk, or overimaginative prankster kids, if they
believe any of it at all. But none of this applies to the
incident where a mystical creature terrorized the small farming
town of Van Meter, Iowa, in 1903. For five nights starting
September 29, an impossible visitor made its presence known to
the townsfolk. Upon returning at 1:00 am from a job out of
town, implement dealer U.G. Griffith spotted a dark figure on a
downtown rooftop, which seemed to be shining a bright spotlight
around. Thinking it may be a burglar, Griffith approached
to inspect when suddenly, the large shadow leaped to another
rooftop across the street and disappeared. The following
night, around the same time, the town’s doctor, Dr. Alcott, was
also alerted to a bright light shining through his window and ran
outside to investigate. Dr. Alcott, though, got a better
view of the intruder. The figure was described by him and
others as standing eight to nine feet tall, half-human,
half-animal, with enormous, smooth, leathery wings, a beak, and
most curiously, a blunt horn in its forehead from where this
bright light was said to have shown. Most disturbingly, the
creature appeared immune to the bullets fired at it on multiple
occasions. Far from the town’s undesirables, these
encounters happened to merchants, a doctor, and a bank manager –
some of the community’s most prominent and well-respected members
who didn’t care for the notoriety this story brought.
Having had their fill of fearsome appearances, a heavily armed
posse confronted the antediluvian monster at its lair in a mine
on the edge of town, intending to rid the earth of its
existence. Grab a pitchfork and a torch, and join us as we
hunt down the Van Meter monster.
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