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Podcast episodes about Van Meter Visitor

Also called Van Meter Monster, Van Meter creature, Iowa winged demon

The 10 best episodes we found about Van Meter Visitor, from 9 different shows. Recent and well-loved episodes first.

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  1. Iowa: Bigfoot & The Van Meter Visitor

    Backwoods Bigfoot Stories Jul 1, 2026 · 49 min

    Way back in episode 147 we spent a full night in Van Meter, Iowa, where in the autumn of 1903 a winged, horned, glowing thing walked the rooftops at 1 a.m., shrugged off the town doctor's 5 shots and the banker's buckshot, and finally backed a whole armed…

  2. Mack Maloney's Military X-Files - The Story of the Van Meter Visitor

    Paranormal UK Radio Network Oct 12, 2026 · 105 min

    Brandi tells the bizarre story of the Van Meter Visitor, a mysterious creature that terrorized a small Iowa town in 1903. Plus, how alien appearances have changed over the years, the mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack, and Brandi's surprising revelation that she's…

  3. This Whole Affair Stinks! The Van Meter Visitor

    Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan Sep 3, 2026 · 40 min

    In the late 1800s, the people of Van Meter, Iowa, were beset by a most unwelcome (and stinky) guest who eluded capture and left the residents terrified. Was The Van Meter Visitor real, or just the product of one person's vivid imagination?Strange and…

  4. The Van Meter Visitor

    Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast Oct 6, 2026 · 66 min

    The Van Meter Visitor | Paranormal Podcast This week, we head to a sleepy coal mining town in Iowa to dig into one of the strangest and most underrated cryptid cases in American history, the Van Meter Monster, a 9-foot, bat-winged, beak-faced, horn-headed…

  5. S08E41: The Visitor (The Van Meter Visitor)

    Unexplained Aug 29, 2025 · 33 min

    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…

  6. BWBS Ep:146 The Van Meter Visitor

    Backwoods Bigfoot Stories Nov 2, 2025 · 53 min

    In September 1903, the quiet farming town of Van Meter, Iowa became the stage for one of the most credible and terrifying cryptid encounters in American history. For five consecutive nights, townspeople reported a winged creatureunlike anything they’d ever…

  7. Episode 330 - The Van Meter Visitor: Iowa’s Winged Cryptid

    Two Girls One Ghost Jul 13, 2025 · 61 min

    In 1903, the quiet coal town of Van Meter, Iowa was shaken by a terrifying series of sightings that would become one of the strangest cryptid encounters in American folklore. It started with a beam of light — not from the sky, but from a glowing horn attached…

  8. LEGEND: The Van Meter Visitor

    So Supernatural Jan 30, 2026 · 49 min

    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…

  9. Van Meter Visitor

    The Cryptonaut Podcast Sep 9, 2019 · 73 min

    At the dawn of the 20th century, the tiny town of Van Meter Iowa became the epicenter of a series a terrifying incidents with one of the oddest entities ever chronicled; an utterly bizarre, bioluminescent, beast that drove the local populace into a state of…

  10. Iowa - The Van Meter Visitor

    Haunted American History Oct 28, 2024 · 32 min

    In the fall of 1903, the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, was shaken by a bizarre and terrifying encounter. Over several nights, multiple residents claimed to witness a strange winged creature—part bat, part man—with a glowing horn on its head and wings that…

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