The Van Meter Visitor: A True and Mysterious Encounter with the Unknown
There is a bizarre legend and unsolved mystery that continued to haunt a small Iowa town for more than a century.
It has been the subject of a book called ‘The Van Meter Visitor: A True and Mysterious Encounter with the Unknown.’
The story goes like this,
For several nights in the year 1903, in the small American town of Van Meter, Iowa, the population was terrorized by a giant bat-like creature that emerged from an old abandoned mine.
The legend dates back to the autumn of 1903, when several of Van Meter’s most well respected citizens reported a half human, half animal with enormous, smooth bat wings flying around.
In Van Meter on October 5th, 1903, a local man, U.S. Griffith, saw something unusual out of his window:
A light moving across the sky and disappearing behind a building.
The Van Meter ‘visitor’ had arrived.
The creature was described as moving at speeds the people of the town had never seen before. It was reported to have emitted a powerful smell while shooting blinding light from a horned head.
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