tried to debunk the Van Meter "winged monster" of 1903 and the newspaper trail is weirder than the monster

Iowa case, kept getting recommended it on cryptid lists as a 'forgotten classic' so I went to actually fact-check it instead of taking the listicle's word. Van Meter, Iowa, fall of 1903. Over about five nights, multiple townspeople — a doctor, a banker, the town's hardware store owner, an implement ……