Van Meter Visitor
UnknownA winged, light-emitting creature that besieged a small Iowa town for three nights in 1903.
Repeated sightingsNorth America
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Cryptids of Iowa
The Van Meter Visitor terrorized an entire Iowa town in 1903 - a winged, horned creature that discharged blinding light and left one of America's strangest cryptid records.
2 documented creatures
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