Van Meter, Iowa was a small rural community. In 1903 strange happenings began to occur there. Many people, over several nights, saw a large winged creature with a powerful beam of light and movements that did not match anything from the known world. After it went into the coal mine their sightings ended all at once-no proof left behind, no answers found.

This episode reviews what went on in Van Meter and why the story took the shape it did, how the incident was reported at that time, what factors led to such restraint in the town, and later evolution of the event into a modern legend. It puts Van Meter into a broader context by comparing it to other winged-entity sightings from places as disparate as Chicago and West Virginia, discussing why these encounters so often happened not deep in wildness but near towns, homes, and altered landscapes.

This is not an episode about evidence of what the Van Meter Visitor was. It’s about patterns, about timing, about those thin places where human activity and the unexplained seam to intersect. Sometimes the most disturbing stories are not those that build to a climax but rather just peek in, slip away quietly and take years to be understood.

All mysteries don’t ask for answers.

Some beg to be remembered.

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