[BenLurkin]

Gotta love the beam of light from the head.

[mkmensinger]

It sounds a bit like the Jersey Devil.

[Beowulf9]

Gosh, sounds a bit like the moth man.

[BunnySlippers]

Also here with LOTS of photos:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319503/The-unsolved-mystery-Van-Meter-Visitor—winged-creature-glowing-horn-caused-terror-Iowa-town-110-years-ago.html

[mardi59]

Over a series of nights in the fall of 1903, several respected and prominent men of Van Meter reported a half human, half animal with enormous, smooth bat wings flying about. It let off a powerful stench and scared the daylights out of them because it moved at speeds never seen before. And it shot a blinding light from its horned head.

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It was Kankles Clinton making a campaign stop.

[BenLurkin]

Now, would these guys perpetrate a hoax?

[what's up]

Smaug?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Dunwich horror returns?

[MuttTheHoople]

It's the town janitor!...and he'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those......MEDDLING KIDS!

[donhunt]

I’ll betcha it’s a one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater.

[windsorknot]

Cthulhu

[freedumb2003]

Hmm -- could run for president on he democratic ticket...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Mothman.

[Uncle Chip]

Rodan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodan

A giant pterydactyl is hatched out of a coalmine and wreaks havoc all over Japan.

That beam of light was probably a miner’s lamp that he wore when flying at night.

[Rembrandt]

I thought Helen Thomas was younger than that.

[Rembrandt]

Van Meter, IA is the birthplace of “Rapid Robert,” Bob Feller late of the Cleveland Indians. Van Meter is about 15 miles due West of Des Moines.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Someone up there was running off some really fine likker!