Season 08 Episode 41: The Visitor
Unexplained
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The small American town of Van Meter in Iowa is the kind of town that some might derisively describe as one that epitomises the fly-over states - a place of little importance or standing.
They imagine nothing of interest ever happens. But not only would that do an immense disservice to its people - they would be very wrong.
In 1903 something paid a visit to Van Meter, and its brief presence would mark the town forever...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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