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00:01:38,560 Host of the Dadcast? 25 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:39,560 The Dadcast. 26 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:40,560 Whatever man. 27 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:41,560 The Dadcast. 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,560 I'm doing, Dave trust me man. 29 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:46,560 I'm breathing. 30 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:52,360 Well that's really the only requirement for doing a podcast is the ability to breathe 31 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:53,360 in and out. 32 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,240 Oh yeah and formulate some noises. 33 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Yeah but I mean they don't have to be like cohesive. 34 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,680 It's just, you just gotta kinda flow together. 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:03,800 Yeah pretty much. 36 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,000 I mean listen I got a shrimp burrito in front of me. 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 I have chicken tamales in front of me. 38 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,040 Shrimp burrito. 39 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,840 That sounds so fucking gross. 40 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,800 I am obsessed with shrimp. 41 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,960 I don't know. 42 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:17,960 I love shrimp. 43 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,840 I can eat, if I can eat like one protein for the rest of my life it'd be shrimp. 44 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:23,840 Really? 45 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:24,840 Oh yeah. 46 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,440 I'm not gonna go full like whatever Forrest Gump's Bubba. 47 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,520 I'm not gonna go full Bubba. 48 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,520 But like it's such a versatile protein. 49 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,120 I guess man. 50 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:38,120 I don't know. 51 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,320 I'm not a big fan of seafood really which is weird because I grew up in New England. 52 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:43,320 But I'm aware. 53 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:50,400 I do like shrimp cocktail but I think it's because I just like cocktail sauce. 54 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,760 Didn't we have shrimp? 55 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,480 It's a good vehicle. 56 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,200 We had it at Christmas right? 57 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,200 Shrimp cocktail? 58 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,200 Yeah. 59 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,200 I don't know. 60 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:00,200 Maybe. 61 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,200 Who knows? 62 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,200 Probably. 63 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,200 I eat a lot of food. 64 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,040 A lot of the foods I eat are based off of what the condiments are that go with it just 65 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:08,920 because I like the condiments. 66 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:10,600 Not so much the actual food. 67 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,040 I'm not a big condiment guy. 68 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,040 No like Chipotle rain. 69 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,960 You can't eat your fucking horseradish sauce or some shit like that. 70 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,680 I can't say horseradish in general. 71 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,160 I hear that you're the worst. 72 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,160 Alright Nicholas. 73 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,720 Well I'm glad you're doing good. 74 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:25,840 I'm glad you could join me today. 75 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,840 It's a rainy shitty day here in Philly so we're both kind of hunkering down inside. 76 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:30,840 You ordered food. 77 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,320 I'm probably gonna order food later. 78 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:37,960 But before I guess in the meantime do you want to hear about a story about a cryptid? 79 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,400 A little spooky cryptid cocktail if you will. 80 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:42,400 Yeah. 81 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:49,520 Well today Nicholas I'm doing one that I didn't really know much about but I see its name 82 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,760 thrown out here every once in a while and I just enjoy the name of it. 83 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,160 So today Nicholas we're going to be talking about the Van Meter Visitor. 84 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,520 Are you familiar? 85 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,920 It sounds familiar but I'm gonna need to refresh ya. 86 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,320 Well good you're gonna get about a half hour of one. 87 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,120 Oh wonderful. 88 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:14,360 So the story of the Van Meter Visitor takes place in the small mining town of Van Meter, 89 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,360 Iowa. 90 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,680 And when I say, we talk about small towns a lot on this show and I usually preface it 91 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,660 by saying when I mean small I really mean small. 92 00:04:22,660 --> 00:04:27,400 This time I fucking 100% mean like the smallest town I've ever heard of. 93 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:28,920 Is it like 50 people? 94 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:34,400 Well right now currently in 2020 I think the population is like a thousand even. 95 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:39,680 The time frame that we're talking about is 1903 and I think it was just under 400 people. 96 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:40,680 So it's... 97 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,480 Can you imagine what Tinder's like in Van Meter, Iowa? 98 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,040 It's probably a lot of like siblings and cousins being on. 99 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,640 Like you just gonna, you know everyone. 100 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,180 And half of them are probably your family members. 101 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:56,120 Not the shit on the town of Van Meter, sorry guys. 102 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,800 It's alright. 103 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,400 But yeah the story takes place in the small mining town of Van Meter, Iowa where over 104 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:07,280 the course of a week in the fall of 1903 several town folk, many of them respected and prominent 105 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:16,000 men in Van Meter, reported that they saw what they described as a nine foot tall half human 106 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,440 half animal with massive wings said to be like smooth bat wings. 107 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:25,560 A horn on its head that shot a beam of light out of its tip that witnesses said temporarily 108 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,380 blinded them. 109 00:05:27,380 --> 00:05:33,160 Really think a pterodactyl with like a fucking spotlight on its forehead. 110 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,160 It's pretty much that. 111 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,160 It kind of reminds me of a... 112 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,080 It's gonna kill me. 113 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,920 My friend Gabe will be able to nail it. 114 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,120 What the hell is it? 115 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:47,480 It's like a Godzilla kaiju or a kaiju from like the Shoho universe. 116 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,360 Soho universe that like sounds just like this god damn thing. 117 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,640 Gabe I know you listen. 118 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,640 Find out what it is. 119 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,720 I have sent you this podcast Gabe. 120 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,920 Gabe if you're listening please ease Nick's mind and tell him what kaiju this reminds 121 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:03,920 him of. 122 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:04,920 It's gonna drive me nuts. 123 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:05,920 Like I kid you not Dave. 124 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,880 I'm gonna be driving lift at two o'clock this morning or you know when we're recording this 125 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:15,240 and it's gonna come to me and I'm gonna scare the shit out of whoever's in the back of my 126 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:16,240 car. 127 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,160 You're just gonna scream out a random name and they're like camera. 128 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,400 I'm gonna be like what? 129 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,720 Just look back at them like that's who it is. 130 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:24,720 I don't know if that's who it is. 131 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:25,720 I know it's not camera. 132 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,560 They're just gonna be like sure dude whatever can I go home now please? 133 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,840 They're gonna think it's like a bone collector scenario. 134 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:34,640 They're gonna think all the locks in the cars are just gonna go down. 135 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:35,640 One star. 136 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,600 One star for this kaiju screaming man. 137 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,320 Man screaming about kaiju. 138 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:47,120 Alright well the first sighting occurred at about 1 a.m. on September 29th when businessman 139 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:48,120 U.G. 140 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,560 Griffith was awoken by what he thought was someone fucking around with like a spotlight 141 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,640 on top of a roof. 142 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:59,280 He got up and went to tell whoever it was to knock it the fuck off but when he went 143 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:05,920 to investigate the source of the light he saw the light along with something massive 144 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:11,700 jump from the roof to another roof across the street after taking a few more steps and 145 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:15,840 clearly confused the light and the giant mass just kind of fucked off into the night. 146 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,920 So he didn't really get a clear look at it but he did see like the like the light emitting 147 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,480 from the horn. 148 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:25,760 It's kind of like that scene from Signs but a lot scarier. 149 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:35,120 Oh I don't know the scene from Signs where like Mel Gibson, Laquan, Phoenix are like 150 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,120 watching the alien like jump onto the roof. 151 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,040 It's like standing on the roof and jumps off and jumps back through. 152 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,040 No that's terrifying. 153 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,880 Trying to say the scene from Signs just now I think gave me a stroke. 154 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,800 I could see that in your face. 155 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,080 So the second sighting and the one where the initial description of the van meter visitor 156 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:59,360 came on the next night September 30th around 1230 a.m. 157 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:04,620 The town doctor Dr. Alcott was sleeping in the back room of his office I assume after 158 00:08:04,620 --> 00:08:09,120 a long day of like prescribing cocaine for blood ghosts and putting leeches on people's 159 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,880 necks to balance their humors. 160 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,560 I don't know what medicine was like in 1903. 161 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,560 I'm just kidding. 162 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,300 I assume it's all medieval at this point. 163 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:21,960 And he suddenly was awoken by a bright light shining through his window onto his face. 164 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,360 And just like Griffith he went out to investigate who was shining lights into his window but 165 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,880 he made sure to grab his gun first because it's 1903. 166 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,840 Did he actually shoot it because I'm tired of hearing about these guys that grab their 167 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,200 guns and don't actually shoot at the thing. 168 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:37,200 Just wait. 169 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,620 Now as he approached the source of the light he saw what he described as a humanoid with 170 00:08:41,620 --> 00:08:46,120 bat wings a blunt horn on its head that was the source of the blinding light that had 171 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,960 awoken him and clearly terrified with what he was seeing. 172 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:54,440 He raised his gun and fired five rounds at the creature but the bullet seemingly had 173 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,180 little to no effect. 174 00:08:57,180 --> 00:09:01,160 So after shooting the visitor five times and not even flinching Alcott decided he was going 175 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,280 to like fuck off back inside and the van meter visitor just kind of like took off into the 176 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,280 night. 177 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:07,280 So he did shoot it. 178 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,440 At least he shot at it. 179 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,400 But like what the hell was he shooting at 22. 180 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:13,400 I don't I don't know. 181 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,400 I don't know. 182 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,040 I feel like back then I don't know what guns were like in 1903. 183 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,040 I feel like they were all just normal guns. 184 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,800 I have no idea. 185 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:29,400 To a Americans. 186 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:34,840 You can have my daughter but you can't have my Winchester. 187 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:41,920 No I did the same night or the next night on October 1st. 188 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,520 The sources say one or the other. 189 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,720 But either way the next sighting was from a local bank teller named Peter Dunn. 190 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,560 Now Peter was holed up in the bank because he believed this was what was happening was 191 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:59,720 an elaborate hoax being perpetrated by some would be burglars which is either some super 192 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:07,440 paranoid thinking or bank robbers back then were like Danny Ocean levels of smart. 193 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,640 But just after 1 a.m. Dunn heard what sounded like gargled gasps outside the window like 194 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,280 the sound of someone being strangled. 195 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:21,440 So he opened the door to investigate and he was immediately blinded by the van meter visitors 196 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,920 like Horn lamp. 197 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,440 But once the light led up he regained his bearings and he too raised a gun and fired 198 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:28,600 at the creature. 199 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,120 And again it was unaffected by being shot for like the eighth time in two days. 200 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:38,680 I'm glad that like people are shooting this damn thing because honestly like if I open 201 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:44,640 my door and there's just like a fucking creature with like it at this point I don't even think 202 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,760 flashlights are a thing but like did I have no idea. 203 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,760 We don't know the candle power of this guy's lantern. 204 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,840 It could be a million fucking calendar. 205 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,240 I'm shooting it like I don't even care who it is. 206 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,360 If I open up my door and there's like a like a literal lantern being held in my face I'm 207 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,520 being blinded. 208 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,000 That's my sort of blast. 209 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,120 Well all right. 210 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:08,680 So it's 1903 and I keep thinking like in my head 1903 is the same thing as like 1703 but 211 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:14,560 you think about it like in like 10 years we're in World War 1 like there has to be shit. 212 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:15,560 You know what I mean. 213 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:16,560 Like it's not. 214 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:22,600 It's not like a casual time in American history. 215 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:23,840 Shit's already fucking tense. 216 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:29,200 But I'm just saying like we're talking about like their firepower and if they have flashlights 217 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,200 or not like they clearly had all those things. 218 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,200 Yeah I mean true. 219 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,200 But it's true. 220 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:38,480 But it's funnier for me to think that doctors were prescribing cocaine for blood ghosts. 221 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,680 I'm sure they were. 222 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:45,280 I mean Hitler was giving people like meth to keep them as super soldiers so like cocaine 223 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,440 for blood ghosts doesn't seem that far off. 224 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:49,440 Yeah that's true. 225 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,680 God being a fucking patient back then must have been awesome. 226 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:58,680 Yeah until like you're depressed and like we're going to shock your brain until it works. 227 00:11:58,680 --> 00:11:59,680 That's fair. 228 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:02,680 Get that energizer. 229 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,000 No less than 24 hours later O.V. White. 230 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,560 I just realized that a lot of people's names in this are just two initials and then their 231 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,220 last name. 232 00:12:11,220 --> 00:12:16,400 But less than 24 hours later O.V. White a hardware merchant was asleep in the room above 233 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:17,400 his store. 234 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,360 A lot of people sleeping in the places where they work. 235 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,200 I don't know if that was just convenience or if that's just what I mean. 236 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,200 I mean if they owned it. 237 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,200 Yeah. 238 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,600 I know a few people that own shops that like own the building. 239 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:27,600 They live up top. 240 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,440 Yeah like the dudes from Gilmore Girls. 241 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,480 He owns that diner and then he also lives above it. 242 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:33,960 It's a coffee shop for yourself. 243 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,240 It's a diner. 244 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:36,240 Is it a diner. 245 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,240 Yeah you fuck. 246 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:38,240 Luke's diner. 247 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,240 Come on. 248 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:45,840 Ah that explains a lot of my ex-girlfriends obsessions with diners and people named Luke. 249 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,840 No fuck. 250 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,840 I know one Luke that listens to this show and that is very much about you. 251 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:55,840 Oh no. 252 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,840 Love you Luke. 253 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:58,840 No. 254 00:12:58,840 --> 00:12:59,840 He was. 255 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,520 God damn it. 256 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:08,200 He was he was awoken by what he described as rasping sounds from outside. 257 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,520 He went to the window to investigate. 258 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,920 But again not before he too also grabbed his gun. 259 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:18,840 Now looking across the street from the window he saw the visitor perched on a telephone 260 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,040 pole. 261 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:25,400 So he did what any man would do and has continuously done throughout this whole story which is 262 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:26,760 to shoot at it. 263 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:31,200 Now again the creature was unfazed by this and returned fire in the form of releasing 264 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,760 a noxious odor back at White. 265 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:40,720 Now while all this is going down Mr. Sydney Gregg was awoken by the sound of White shooting 266 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,560 and decided to go outside and see what all the hullabaloo is about. 267 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:50,160 As he gets outside and looks down Main Street he sees the visitor lowering itself down from 268 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:55,760 the telephone pole and just as this is happening the mail train comes roaring into town. 269 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,940 Now this caught the van meter visitor off guard startling it. 270 00:13:59,940 --> 00:14:04,220 So it went to a crouch down as if it were about to like jump and take flight. 271 00:14:04,220 --> 00:14:09,880 But instead Gregg said that it flapped its wings and hopped away like a kangaroo before 272 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:15,240 breaking into a sprint on all fours and then like are we sure like that a this thing doesn't 273 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,960 have a few few questions about the. 274 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,080 I know yeah. 275 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,560 So it seems like it's rasping a lot right. 276 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,440 And then it's got like some you know some clear. 277 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,400 I guess respiratory issues. 278 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:35,640 Are we sure that this thing isn't actually a guy with like emphysema like a minor like 279 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,000 I mean could it not just be a minor that had like his helmet on he's like having a hard 280 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:45,240 time breathing and like everyone just a terrible shot because that's what it sounds like. 281 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:50,200 Oh like this like the light on his head would be like the headlamp from like. 282 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:51,200 Yeah exactly. 283 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,200 I don't. 284 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:53,200 Exactly. 285 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,200 I don't think so. 286 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:55,200 Well the other thing that I have there. 287 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:01,000 I mean like a spry minor if you can jump rooftop to rooftop like a fucking Spider-Man. 288 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,760 Minors are the backbone of American culture. 289 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,320 Don't ever fucking disrespect my family again. 290 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,440 What's it saying they aren't. 291 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,120 I have no no family members of mine who have been minors. 292 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,760 We are very large people we do not do well with small spaces. 293 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:23,160 All right Nick next question what do you got for me. 294 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:27,320 My other question is like before you answer this ask this question just know that like 295 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,200 I said I knew nothing of this creature until I did the research for it today to write this 296 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,560 episode so I might not have all the answers. 297 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,280 It's more of like a general idea. 298 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:42,440 I mean okay obviously it's a mining town so there is that like aspect of people that are 299 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,400 going to be walking around with this headlamps on. 300 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:49,000 What if this thing whatever it is was just trying to blend in and that's why it has no 301 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,160 I'm serious has like this lantern on its head because he thinks that it's like a way to 302 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:59,240 communicate it like observed our goings on for like weeks and there's like you know I'm 303 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,040 finally going to do I'm going to go in there integrate myself into their society and maybe 304 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,200 just wanted to make friends. 305 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,400 And as soon as he gets out there everyone just fucking popping rounds at him. 306 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:13,120 I kind of feel bad for the van meter visitor now. 307 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:19,280 Yeah he's just he's literally just trying to make friends and he's like these guys with 308 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:20,760 helmets on. 309 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:25,160 Dude first things first though like he we should probably get back to the story but 310 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:30,800 real quick like he hasn't done anything wrong and all the literally been shot at like 12 311 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:31,800 times so far. 312 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:32,800 A bunch of dickheads. 313 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:33,800 Twelve times. 314 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,400 So I mean he's hold on a second here. 315 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,680 She had to whip out some. 316 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,140 That's 38 times less than 50 cent. 317 00:16:43,140 --> 00:16:47,160 We got to call this guy 12 cents. 318 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,840 I don't think 50 cent was the amount of times he was shot. 319 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:51,840 Really. 320 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:52,840 Yeah. 321 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,560 No that's not. 322 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:55,920 That's fucking stupid. 323 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:56,920 Yeah. 324 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:57,920 So. 325 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,140 So by now the whole town is aware of everything going on since there have been five sightings 326 00:17:02,140 --> 00:17:07,960 by the town's like five most prominent citizens with miners in the town believing these sightings 327 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,480 have something to do with some of the noises they've heard coming from with inside the 328 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,480 mine. 329 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,480 Now what they're referring to here is just a few short days after the sightings in the 330 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:21,720 on the first the mine director heard what he described to the Des Moines Daily News 331 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:27,960 as quote Satan and a regiment of imps were coming forth to battle right before not one 332 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:33,600 but two creatures emerged from the shaft the second smaller than the first. 333 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:39,280 And as he watched they both took flight and he described them the same way everyone else 334 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:45,600 had with a horn on his head with those emitting a bright light and smooth like bat like wings. 335 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:52,080 Now you know what men from in a mining town in 1903 love more than anything Nicholas. 336 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,080 No. 337 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,120 I'm not a miner. 338 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:57,120 I have no idea. 339 00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:59,040 I don't know the mindset of miners. 340 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:00,340 They love formals. 341 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:02,880 They love form and posses. 342 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,720 And that's exactly what the mine director JL Platt did. 343 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:12,920 He gathered up a gang of armed men and waited for the monsters to come back to what I assume 344 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:13,920 is their den. 345 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:14,920 Right. 346 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:15,920 What? 347 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:16,920 So I'm sorry. 348 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:17,920 I just want to make sure I heard you right. 349 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,560 So there is multiple of these little fucking things just hopping around. 350 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:21,560 Yeah. 351 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:22,560 There's two. 352 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:23,560 There's a big one and a small one. 353 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:24,560 OK. 354 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:25,560 All right. 355 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,200 So yeah, JL Platt formed his posse. 356 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,920 He gathered up a gang of armed men and waited for the monsters to come back to the den. 357 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:36,520 And just before dawn, after waiting for what to them must have felt like forever, the van 358 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:41,560 meter visitors returned and the men immediately opened fired. 359 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:50,840 Now, Jesus Christ, so many shots were fired that witnesses said that the that they said, 360 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,080 quote, the reception would have sunk the Spanish fleet. 361 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,360 That's how many fucking bullets were flying at these creatures when. 362 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:02,200 See, now I feel fucking horrible for the van meter visitor because clearly it's just a 363 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,200 single day. 364 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,800 It's literally the pursuit of happiness with Will Smith and Jaden Smith. 365 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:11,200 Like this thing is out there trying to make connections, trying to make networks, and 366 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,800 they're fucking shooting a single widowed father. 367 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,520 Yeah, it's bullshit. 368 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,560 It's kind of sad. 369 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,360 But as a running theme to this story, the bullets obviously did nothing but annoy the 370 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:23,360 creatures. 371 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:24,840 They let out the raspy cry. 372 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:30,020 They farted out the obnoxious fumes and they just kind of sauntered on down the shaft without 373 00:19:30,020 --> 00:19:31,200 missing a beat. 374 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,420 As soon as the monsters were far enough down the shaft, the town folks started immediately 375 00:19:35,420 --> 00:19:39,440 breaking and barricading the entrance to the mine. 376 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,720 Don't know how that would help, but that's where the story ends. 377 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,720 There was no more reports of the van meter visitor or dome light or smelly odor, and 378 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:51,160 the town just kind of went back to business as usual. 379 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:58,640 Minus the mining part since they kind of like bricked up the mine. 380 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,640 But yeah, that's it. 381 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,080 But the story lives on in many forms, from meadow zoo cards all the way to the annual 382 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,840 van meter visitor festival and in the hearts and mind of all of us or something. 383 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:10,840 I don't know. 384 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,960 I'm bad at ending episodes. 385 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:15,960 Do we know what this is? 386 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,800 Is there a picture of what this thing potentially looks like? 387 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,400 I have so many questions that are just unanswered. 388 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,760 Like have there been any? 389 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:27,400 It literally looks like a pterodactyl with a light on its head. 390 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,680 Let's do this Google search. 391 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,440 Van meter visitor. 392 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:37,800 Yeah, it literally looks just like a pterodactyl. 393 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,560 Oh, this poor guy. 394 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:46,880 He's literally just like going around trying to live his best life, live his best life 395 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,320 and raise his kid. 396 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,520 And these these fucking Iowans. 397 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,680 Is that what they are? 398 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:55,680 Iowans? 399 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:01,360 I think they're assholes that don't support single fathers. 400 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,880 So I mean the festival, right? 401 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:03,880 Yeah. 402 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,080 Now there's you were talking about this last week. 403 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,800 You know, the the rise of cryptid festivals. 404 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:09,800 Yeah. 405 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,560 Now for like these one off fest, right? 406 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:17,840 Because clearly the van meter is a one off or, you know, it's not like there's multiple 407 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:18,840 sightings. 408 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,440 It's not like Bigfoot or Tupacabra. 409 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,440 Yeah. 410 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,160 Like over the course of decades or centuries. 411 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:32,640 Do they just like walk around with flashlights on their heads or because if not, that is 412 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,760 honestly a very under. 413 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,320 No, it's a great idea. 414 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:38,720 And I think I need to monopolize on it. 415 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,520 Yeah, I think you should probably you should bring it up to the festival organizers, even 416 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,400 get on that LLC type deal. 417 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,720 No, but I think I think strap on flashlights. 418 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,120 Yeah, it's got to be like any other cryptid festival. 419 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:56,840 Like, you know, like it's just art vendors, food trucks. 420 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:02,320 Maybe speaking of do you want to go to squonk a Palooza? 421 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,040 I'm a sponsor of Squonk a Palooza, bud. 422 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,040 Yeah, I know. 423 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,040 So you're going? 424 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:08,040 I don't know. 425 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:09,520 It depends on if I'm still in the state. 426 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:10,520 Oh, OK. 427 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,280 Well, I mean, if not, I will go on your behalf. 428 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:15,280 Yeah. 429 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,280 All right. 430 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,360 So yeah, that's a that's the end of the episode. 431 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:19,840 What did you think of the story, Nick? 432 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,840 It was a little shorter than normal, but you know, a little shorter than normal. 433 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,640 I mean, listen, I feel bad that the single father was harassed. 434 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,360 I wish we like we got more. 435 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:36,960 I guess nighttime or daytime like sightings, but it makes sense because it's got a flashlight 436 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:37,960 on its head. 437 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:38,960 So clearly it's like nocturnal. 438 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:39,960 Yeah. 439 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:40,960 I don't know more about this gas. 440 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,960 Like did anyone else like get gassed? 441 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,960 Yeah, I don't know. 442 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,960 And they never they just said it was like a noxious odor. 443 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,160 They never said what it smelled like. 444 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,160 I mean, I can't imagine it's good, but I don't know. 445 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:53,160 Yeah. 446 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:58,760 I have so many questions and they're all just unanswered and I don't know how to feel about 447 00:22:58,760 --> 00:22:59,760 it. 448 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:00,760 Yeah. 449 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,400 And that's the thing with these one offs. 450 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,880 You usually end up with more questions than answers like the Enfield monster, Flatwoods 451 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:07,880 monster, Mothman. 452 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,840 I mean, like you never know things. 453 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,480 You're never satisfied. 454 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,640 If you had to put this up against another one off cryptid. 455 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,200 Like do you mean like like in a fight? 456 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:19,200 Yeah. 457 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:23,560 Like who would like who would I pit it against to see who would win? 458 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:28,400 I don't I don't say I don't think that the the Van Beter visitor has like a bad bone 459 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,400 in its body. 460 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:30,400 Like I don't think it's violent. 461 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,400 Right. 462 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,680 So why the fuck was it getting shot at? 463 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:33,680 I don't know. 464 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,680 That's what I'm saying. 465 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,440 I don't think also like my another question for you. 466 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:42,120 This is again not to be you know that I want to hunt cryptids. 467 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:44,720 But like do we know if anyone ever shot the Mothman? 468 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,000 Oh, they definitely just they definitely tried. 469 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,000 OK. 470 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Yeah. 471 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,520 They form posses to during the Mothman. 472 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,880 Like they had like people in their pickup trucks with a bunch of guns just going down 473 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,640 to the TNT factory or the TNT area. 474 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:58,640 Yeah. 475 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:04,360 But I mean, yeah, I'm going to do some I'm going to grab my cryptids A through Z book 476 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,920 and see if I can do some more digging here. 477 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,440 Yeah, I'm sure it's in there. 478 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,440 It has to be. 479 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,440 I'd be surprised if it wasn't. 480 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:11,800 I'd be surprised if it wasn't. 481 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:12,800 The beard's looking good, by the way. 482 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:13,800 Oh, it's actually looking real nice. 483 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:14,800 Yeah, I got to trim it up. 484 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:15,800 All right, bud. 485 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:16,800 Well, I appreciate you coming on. 486 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:17,800 Do you anything you want to plug? 487 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:18,800 No, not really. 488 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,800 Just new episodes of the Dadcast coming out. 489 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:26,960 We recorded about four of them last week. 490 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,720 So season two is is on its way. 491 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:30,720 Hell yeah, bud. 492 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:31,720 All right. 493 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:32,720 Yeah. 494 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:33,720 Sick. 495 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,720 Follow Follow Cryptid Cocktail on Instagram at Cryptid Cocktail. 496 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:36,720 We'll have a Twitter. 497 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,560 I don't ever use it, but you know, we're followed by the Flatwood Monster Museum. 498 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,320 So it's kind of a big deal. 499 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,320 The same thing at Cryptid Cocktail. 500 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:44,320 We also have a co-fi. 501 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,920 If you want to donate to the show, it's co-fi slash Cryptid Cocktail Party. 502 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,360 Let's see what else. 503 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:55,720 I think that's pretty much it. 504 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,200 Follow Dadcast on Instagram. 505 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,000 It's the dot dadcast. 506 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,960 Yeah, the dot dadcast. 507 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,920 The dot dadcast. 508 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,640 Can't get wrong. 509 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,160 It's just straightforward. 510 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,240 Just a couple of dads who aren't dads spinning a wheel of topics talking about it ridiculously. 511 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,680 Yeah, that sounds pretty much like this show. 512 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:22,760 Well, Dave, I'm going to go enjoy this shrimp burrito and stay classy, stay sassy and don't 513 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:48,320 shoot single fathers.