Over a series of fall nights 120 years ago, several of the most prominent men of Van Meter, Iowa made the astonishing claim that a half human, half animal with enormous bat-like wings was terrorizing the small community from the air. Its horrendous stench stench and ability to emit a high intensity light from its forehead scared the daylights out of them as well as the fact it moved crazy fast. Please listen to the eyewitness accounts originally from the Des Moines Register and Van Meter, Iowa library archives for the full story of the 1903 cryptid event.