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During the Autumn of 1903, numerous inhabitants of one Iowan city were subjected to a series of terrifying encounters with a mysterious winged intruder. Over a century later, both the origins and ultimate fate of this enigmatic creature continue to remain shrouded in mystery. Join us this week as we examine the bewildering story of The Van Meter Visitor.
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My dad used to be a teacher in van meter and always shared stories with me from students who’d heard stories from their families, it’s great to see these stories get the attention they deserve
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‘But it’s standing there…. MENACINGLY!’
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Listening to this outside, wind howling and windchimes clacking. So relaxing
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The visitors just wanted to fix the roofing, make an appointment with the good doctor, and make a bank deposit. Not their fault they are nocturnal 😆
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This channel got me into listening to stories right before bed. Amazing narration and images. However, I´ll be honest, I miss those weird stories like the security guards going into a small loop checkin on a building. Wow did my mind go nuts with that.
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The cryptid episodes are always my favorites. Keep up the awesome work guys, just gets better and better!
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“Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.” ― Heraclitus
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Bedtime Stories is perfect. I dig how clean everything looks. Cool fonts, artwork, and amazing stories
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I read a book on the Van Meter Visitor a few years ago. This is a truly amazing encounter. If it were kids playing a prank, it was a complicated one to pull off and hazardous too. One or more of them could have been shot. Back in the day just about everyone carried a gun and weren't afraid to use it.
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I saw the title and I was like "gotta be another Van Meter, Iowa literally only has one interesting story and they've already cover it"
I can't belive I've never heard of the Van Meter Visitor! As a cryptid lover and an Iowan I am ashamed
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I feel bad for those creatures suffocating / starving to death in the mine shaft. Maybe it could be excavated in modern times to look for remains of any unusual creatures.
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As a born and raised small town Iowan myself, let me first thank you for pronouncing the name of the city correctly, for not assuming we're an island in the Pacific, and not deriding us as ignorant bumpkins.
I've been to Van Meter, and spoken to people who know of this story. Skeptics may say what they wish, but by all accounts the people who first spoke of this story truly believed there was something out there.
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The Van Meter Visitor might be the most anomalous Cryptid in all of US lore. There's other creatures that are stranger looking but they are sighted with UFOs (the Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain, Palo Verde Brains, Prospect Monoliths) so I consider them ETs not Cryptids. Excluding those ETs, the Enfield Horror (which I think was a normal Cryptid seen in a strange position, a Devil Monkey carrying it's infant so it looks like a three legged beast), Crawfordville Monster, Kinderhook Blob, Medford Smoos, Gargantuan Gliders of Nevada (all four I theorize are the same species [Atmospheric Beast] but in different stages of their life cycle) and the Jersey Devil (still not sure what that thing is) are stranger.
The VMV does vaguely remind me of Mothman/La Lechusa/Owlman/Black Bird of Chernobyl/Bat Beast of Kent in that you have a large nocturnal, flying creature. But I think those are giant owls (large and luminous eyes, large round head with no neck so they look like their eyes are in their chest when seen in shadowy light). The VMV has a toothy beak, clawed wings and a spotlight horn so it doesn't sound like a giant owl. If anything, they sound like a relict pterosaur with some kind of bioluminescent bacteria in their crest.
However a few Cryptid sightings do report strange glows on the creature reported (a Westmoreland County Bigfoot had a glowing orb in its hand, the Riverside Monster had sparks coming off it and the first Loveland Frog sighted carried a wand that discharged sparks) so maybe the lights are a side effect of interdimensional travel. You see, I theorize that Cryptids are from alternate Earths where familiar creatures evolved in different ways (New World Monkeys to Bigfoot, Devil Monkeys, Dover Demon and Dogmen; huge eels and turtles as lake monsters; giant birds like Thunderbirds and Mothman and dinosaur and pterosaur like beasts) that involuntarily cross dimensions temporarily.
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"It was carried out by a local group of youth pranksters" Which were apparently bullet proof...When the "Logical" answer starts to sound more ridiculous than the alternative I prefer to see sense and believe that yes there are such things as undiscovered creatures and beings on this earth. Which is usually when someone says to me "Then why hasn't anyone seen them yet?" To which I say, they have. But you all call them crack pots for it and ruin their lives.
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Mid-West American stories are always my favorite, thank you!
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"no honorable man would have business on a rooftop at such an hour" okay so he's just me, got it
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The theme music for Bedtime Stories has to be influenced by The X-Files. I totally hear the influence in the keys. If so; that's super cool 😎
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Three cryptids/entities came to mind that might bear some relation to the Van Meter Visitor: the Jersey Devil, Mothman, and the Piasa Bird of which there was once a carving of along the Mississippi River on the Illinois side on a bluff.
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I'm from Des Moines, and Van Meter is a essentially an outer suburb. I've been into Iowa folklore for sometime, but this story didn't really make headlines until about 5-10 years ago, after someone writing a book supposedly found old news clippings describing a gargoyle that jumped up and around the roofs of buildings and then jumped back down the mineshaft never to return about 100 years ago. I never heard anything about a light until now.
The description you provided sounds like someone strapped a helmet with lantern (or a flashlight, they were just becoming a thing at the time) to a turkey vulture - or the vulture just found it and decided to play with it. They're quite common in Central Iowa, and would be about the perfect size for the creature described.
This was either a stunt pulled by the mine, or straight BS by the people who were telling a story. And I'm sorry, no salesman would be out in Central Iowa at 1am on business. Everything except the pub would be closed by sundown. Dude was drunk walking home, or coming back from an affair - possibly with the doctor?
Also - Mountains? Central-West Iowa is flatter than Kansas lmao!
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2 years ago
I love a story where people actually try shooting the cryptids
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