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The citizens of Van Meter reported encountering a half-human, half-animal entity with huge bat wings and called it the Van Meter Monster.

Paranormal The Unsolved Mystery Of The Van Meter Monster For several nights in 1903, the small town of Van Meter (Iowa, USA), was terrorized by a large bat-like creature from an abandoned mine now popularly… By Ansh Srivastava December 25, 2020 4 min read No comments <img src="https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/vanmeter-monster2.jpg" alt="The Unsolved Mystery Of The Van Meter Monster" width="1600" height="900" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" /> Home – Paranormal – The Unsolved Mystery Of The Van Meter Monster For several nights in 1903, the small town of Van Meter (Iowa, USA), was terrorized by a large bat-like creature from an abandoned mine now popularly known as the Van Meter Monster. The identity of this mysterious monster has never been revealed, but more than a century after the events a new book relives this astonishing story hoping to shed some light on what happened in the past.The mystery behind the Van Meter Monster, which has remained unsolved for more than 100 years in a small town in Iowa, is the subject of a new book entitled “The Visitor of Van Meter: A True and Mysterious Encounter with the Unknown”, by the writer Chad Lewis The legend dates back to the fall of 1903 when several of the most respected citizens of Van Meter reported encountering a half-human, half-animal entity with huge bat wings that allowed it to fly. Reports from the time say that the creature moved swiftly, left a repulsive stench in its wake, and that it emitted blinding light from a horn on its head. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1024" height="580" src="https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-1024x580.jpg" alt="The Unsolved Mystery Of The Van Meter Monster" class="wp-image-7512" title="The Unsolved Mystery Of The Van Meter Monster 1" srcset="https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-300x170.jpg 300w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-768x435.jpg 768w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-600x340.jpg 600w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-380x215.jpg 380w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-550x312.jpg 550w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-800x453.jpg 800w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-1160x657.jpg 1160w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-760x431.jpg 760w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2-1100x623.jpg 1100w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/635713671819396205-VM2.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> Whenever any of the inhabitants were unlucky enough to encounter this creature, they would shoot it with whatever weapons they had at hand, but this apparently could not hurt the Van meter monster even a little. The first night, he was spotted flying over the roofs of houses.The the following night, he was seen by both the town doctor and the bank teller Peter Dunn, who managed to make a plaster cast of the monster’s “three-toed” prints. On the third night, a man found him perched on a telephone pole. Another resident who saw it said that the monster jumped like a kangaroo; while the local school teacher associated the figure of the winged creature with that of a demon. Scared and intimidated by what they had experienced, the citizens followed the creature’s trail to an abandoned coal mine, near an old brickyard where peculiar noises had been heard coming from the mine. “The noise broke through again, and they thought that Satan and his regiment of devils were preparing to rise to the surface to do battle.” An article in the Des Moines Daily News of October 3, 1903. <img decoding="async" width="634" height="429" src="https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/vanmeter-monster2.jpg" alt="The Unsolved Mystery Of The Van Meter Monster" class="wp-image-7513" title="The Unsolved Mystery Of The Van Meter Monster 2" srcset="https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/vanmeter-monster2.jpg 634w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/vanmeter-monster2-300x203.jpg 300w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/vanmeter-monster2-600x406.jpg 600w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/vanmeter-monster2-380x257.jpg 380w, https://www.infinityexplorers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/vanmeter-monster2-550x372.jpg 550w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" />Image illustrating the cover of Lewis’s book. While the citizens were inspecting the entrance of the m...

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