Ep4. Iowa - The Van Meter Visitor State Of The Unknown podcast

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In 1903, the quiet farming town of Van Meter, Iowa, became the epicenter of a mystery that still defies explanation.

Over the course of five nights, respected townspeople—doctors, bankers, merchants—reported seeing a massive winged creature, glowing with an eerie light and impervious to gunfire. It was no bird. It was no man. And when it disappeared into an abandoned mine, the town sealed the entrance shut... permanently.

Today, we retrace the strange events that turned a peaceful prairie town into a place of fear—and gave rise to one of America's most chilling legends.

Was it a hoax? Mass hysteria? Or something that still waits in the dark?

Walk the haunted streets of Van Meter... if you dare.

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State of the Unknown is a documentary-style podcast mapping the haunted highways, hidden legends, and supernatural stories tucked into the corners of America’s 50 states.

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Chapters

1. ep4. Iowa - The Van Meter Visitor (00:00:00)

2. The Town of Van Meter – 1903 (00:02:02)

3. Night One – The Banker, the Beam, and the Footprints (00:05:48)

4. Night After Night – A Town Under Siege (00:10:03)

5. Local Reaction & Fear (00:13:48)

6. The Mine Discovery – Night Five (00:16:13)

7. What Was It? — Theories, Speculation, and the Legacy of the Visitor (00:20:26)

8. Witnesses and the Van Meter Legacy (00:26:45)

9. Final Thoughts (00:31:30)

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