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So Supernatural

LEGEND: The Van Meter Visitor

So Supernatural

Audiochuck | Crime House

Society & Culture

4.623.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1900s in the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, many residents saw a creature they couldn’t explain. It had giant wings, a beak, and a light on its head that not only mystified locals but also sometimes erased their memories, too. Legend has it the creature comes from the mines of the town, but to this day, no one is certain what the Van Meter visitor really is—or if it’s still out there.

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0:00.0

We've all heard the phrase, seeing is believing.

0:07.0

And that's especially true when it comes to the supernatural,

0:10.9

because it's easy to write off some of the things we cover as a hoax,

0:16.2

especially when you haven't seen it for yourself.

0:19.9

But when you're there, standing face to face with the unknown,

0:25.4

your heart beating out of your chest,

0:28.3

you know what's real and what isn't.

0:31.5

Which is why the 1903 story of the van meter incident

0:36.1

feels so incredibly profound to the both of us.

0:40.9

Yes, it does.

0:42.3

And when dozens of people in a small Iowa town say they came face to face with a cryptid,

0:49.3

one with a blinding bright light on its head, a terrible stench that made people faint, and was seemingly

0:57.4

bulletproof, I trust that they weren't just seeing a really large bird, like a lot of the

1:03.0

skeptics claimed. And after hearing their accounts, we think you'll agree that the van meter

1:09.8

visitor was something completely unexplainable.

1:14.4

I'm Rasha Pecorero.

1:16.3

And I'm Yvette genteelay.

1:18.9

This is so supernatural.

1:58.6

Music Thank you. If I told you to think about Iowa, I know what I would think.

2:04.2

I'd immediately think of one of our favorite movies, Yvette, right?

2:06.0

Yes. Field of dreams.

2:07.5

James Earl Jones, y'all.

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