In the heart of Iowa, a small town found itself haunted by something other worldly. In the early 1900s, locals claimed to see a bizarre

winged creature with glowing eyes swooping down from the sky before disappearing. So today, we

explore the chilling encounters and mysterious

reappearance of the Van Meter Visitor. This is Red Web. Welcome back Task Force to

to Task Force to another episode of Red Web the podcast all about unsolved mysteries true crime and a little

bit of that supernatural goodness. I am your resident mystery enthusiast Trevor Collins and joining

me hearing this case for the very first time Alfredo Diaz.

Ooh you know it's gonna be a fun one when we're talking about cryptids. We got some

monsters some legends have you ever heard of the Van Meter Visitor?

No, and if I heard it, I wouldn't think it's a cryptid. Like who named this one?

Like, it's just a man that rolled the town. I'm just visiting, a cryptid!

It's just surprising to me that a name like Squank is more, uh-huh, I guess, appealing than the van meter, I, van meter

something, what, visitor, or van Visitor? There you go. Yeah.

Yeah.

Weird, weird scripted name, as always with cryptids, I'm very excited to hear about the origins,

the creature's abilities, weaknesses. I treat it like a monster movie you treat it like a

superhero yeah that too you know because it's it's it's got a weakness it's got it. You know, ebb and flow to everything.

How tall is it? What does it look like? Because a lot of the cryptids, they're weird man and we go back to Squawk because it's such a unique one but like that's one that looks like an ugly pug and then you look at it it cries and melts

You know so anything's on the table anything's on the table when it comes to cryptids and I'm very excited.

I'm totally with you. We got Squank, which is like this unique name out of this ugly pug from the swamps,

but now we just have somebody named after the town it came to.

Right.

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