Van Meter Monster | CONFIDENTIAL
ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING
Big Theory Podcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Van Meter Monster, Iowa’s infamous Bigfoot-like cryptid first spotted in the small town of Van Meter in 1903. In this episode, Dan and Braden explore eyewitness accounts, historical newspaper reports, and the lasting mystery behind this winged creature with a glowing horn. Was it mass hysteria, folklore, or something truly unexplained? Tune in for a deep dive into one of America’s strangest unsolved cryptid encounters.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Thank you. I'm Let's try this again. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome to another amazing, fantastic, incredible, phenomenal episode of everybody's favorite ATT Confidential |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Brady |
| 1:04.8 | I'm Tan |
| 1:05.2 | I absolutely meltdown |
| 1:09.6 | trying to record this a couple hours ago. |
| 1:12.9 | This, again, I almost called an audible on this one because it's so fucking good. |
| 1:19.1 | It's so good. |
| 1:20.8 | It's such an amazing cryptic. |
| 1:24.8 | I can't believe the Von Meter monster isn't on the same level of as like |
| 1:30.8 | mothman. Yeah, I would agree. This is very the digging into this case, the van meter monster that |
| 1:38.1 | we're talking about today is a cryptid that has um really i think it's actually taken flight i suppose |
| 1:47.6 | um and garnered more interest in the last couple of years i hadn't really heard about it until um at least |
| 1:55.0 | at least probably mid last year um and then i've kind of finally found it. I guess it's been gaining popularity, I suppose. |
| 2:04.2 | It's got a certain festival, just like the Mothman. |
| 2:07.7 | It has... |
| 2:08.4 | What did you call it? |
| 2:10.8 | Oh, I suppose you could call it America's first kaiju. |
| 2:15.3 | Like, we call it an American kaiju, essentially. |
| 2:18.4 | Yeah, man. We're like, why didn't they call it an American kaiju essentially. Yeah, man. |
| 2:19.0 | We're like, |
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