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Tonight's story takes us to a quiet Midwestern town where something impossible appears in the darkness. A towering figure with bat-like wings, glowing eyes, and a strange light shining from its forehead begins stalking the streets after sunset. As sightings spread and fear grips the town, one witness finds himself face to face with a creature that should not exist.

Then we explore the real reports behind one of America's strangest cryptid encounters.

In the fall of 1903, residents of Van Meter, Iowa reported seeing a bizarre winged creature unlike anything they had e ...