#56 Five Nights of Terror: The Van Meter (Re)Visitor ft Dark Docent

Tonight we're re-opening the vault. Complete with new details, new stories, and a couple friends to help us out.

Something appeared in Van Meter, Iowa in 1903.

At first, it was just a light. A strange, focused beam moving across rooftops in the middle of the night. Then came the sightings. A massive winged creature. Eight feet tall. A horn on its head that emitted a blinding white light.

People didn’t just see it. They shot at it.

In this special guest episode, I’m joined by Jake and James from Dark Docent to break down one of the strangest cases in American paranormal history.

A doctor fired five rounds at point blank range. No effect. A banker blasted it through a window. Nothing. By the fourth night, the entire town was in panic. Armed men were waiting in the streets.

Then on October 3rd, nearly 200 people gathered at a coal mine.

What came out of that mine changed everything.

They opened fire with everything they had. Rifles. Shotguns. Enough firepower to drop anything alive. The creature didn’t go down. It didn’t even react.

Then it turned… and went back into the mine.

And the town made a decision.

They sealed it.

Together with Dark Docent, we dig into the original witness accounts, the newspaper reports, the inconsistencies, and the theories. Was this a hoax fueled by early yellow journalism? A misidentified animal? Something prehistoric that shouldn’t exist anymore? Or something that came from somewhere else entirely?

More than a century later, the question still stands:

What did they trap underground?

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