There are many strange events in the world, some of which are even beyond our comprehension and knowledge. These events do not fit the typical nature of ghosts or aliens, but belong to a whole new strange realm - ultra-strange alien species invasion events.
Today we are going to talk about one of them, which came more than a century ago and involved a horned monster with bat wings.
The whole bizarre series of events begins in 1903 in the secluded town of Van Meter, Iowa.
At midnight on September 29 of that year, a local tool merchant named U.G. Griffiths was dragging his exhausted body home after a day of peddling. When he was about to get home, he suddenly noticed a strange spot of light appear nearby, like a spotlight, emanating from the top floor of a nearby building.
Griffith has lived in the town for most of his life, so when he spotted this point of light, he immediately felt strange - this kind of thing should not appear on the building!
Out of curiosity, Griffith immediately dismissed the hot meal and bed waiting for him at home, and immediately drove across the road to see what the source of the light was, and he worried that it would not be some hooligans who were doing something wrong in the building.
And that's when something strange happened: as Griffith approached the building, the strange point of light suddenly moved to another roof opposite the building, as if the initiator had simply flown through the air.
It is impossible for a prankster or a thief to do such a thing, and the increasingly confused Griffith tries to make all possible assumptions in his mind, but never gets the point, which is all too strange.
The next day, Griffith told the rest of the town about the strange point of light he had witnessed, and of course people believed him, for Griffith was an honest and respected elder by all accounts.
And the light point event, also on this day, became more bizarre and bizarre.
In the early morning of September 30, 1903, a doctor named Alcott in the town of Van Mitte suddenly noticed a blinding light coming from outside the window, and the doctor immediately ran outside to see what was happening, and in case it was an intruder, he picked up his gun.
As soon as he reached the outside, Alcott froze for an instant, and he saw a tall humanoid monster towering in the shadows, with bat-like wings and, most strangely, a single horn on its head, from which the dazzling light came straight out.
Frightened, the doctor instinctively raised his rifle and fired at the monster, which he fired a total of five shots, but to no avail, and the monster remained motionless in the darkness, without the slightest flinch or injury.
The terrified doctor stumbled back into his home and locked the door.
Time did not know how long it had been, but by the time the doctor had calmed down completely, the thing had disappeared.
Word of the doctor's experience soon spread throughout the town, but no one knew what he had witnessed. There was only one thing known: the strange sight of unusual points of light gliding from one roof to another the night before Griffith was related to the strange sight of the doctor's encounter with a dazzling monster, all of which meant that the town was beginning to become less secure.
To be on the safe side, on the morning of October 1, the town's bank manager, Clarence M. Dunn arrived at the bank early in the morning with a shotgun.
Dunn's concerns were not without reason, because no one could tell what had happened to the town, and if the other party was a robber, the bank would be one of the targets.
Sure enough, just around 1 a.m., Dunn heard a strange noise outside, sounding like the sharp breathing sound of someone gasping for air or being strangled, and Dunn hurried into the darkness, clutching the shotgun with both hands, and killing the robbers only to break into the room.
At this moment, suddenly a beam of light penetrating the darkness shone in, and Dunn was startled, and it was the humanoid unicorn monster with bat wings described by the doctor.
Saying that it was too late, Dunn immediately pulled the trigger, and the shotgun's bullets roared out, hitting the monster's body with precision.
The monster was frightened and fled into the night.
Dunn was sure he had hit the intruder, but after examining the scene, he saw no trace of the monster, no blood on the ground, only a few very strange footprints—the monster had only three toes.
The monster's intimidation didn't end there, and it reappeared the night after Dunn hit the monster.
A piercing, reminiscent cry of scraping and grinding metal awakened the town's hardware store owner, O.V. White.
Thinking of the recent series of monster invasions, White did not hesitate, he quickly grabbed the rifle he had been holding, and then quietly hid by the window. Looking out through the window, White saw a strange black shadow perched on a telephone pole about 15 feet away from him.
White immediately raised his gun and fired at the monster, trying to hit it directly, the monster quickly dodged the roaring bullets, at this time, as if provoked, it let out a roar, and then looked at White with its eyes.
And just then --
White later claimed that he was suddenly overwhelmed by a strong stench that hit his nasal cavity like a wave, and he soon felt dizzy, spinning, and eventually unconscious.
Meanwhile, another local, the hardware store's co-owner Sidney. Greg was awakened by the gunshots and rushed to investigate, and as soon as he reached the street, he found a winged monster in the form of a man jumping from the telephone pole, apparently using its large parrot-like "most" to climb. When it reached the ground, it stood up, revealing its body about 8 feet tall, and it had kangaroo-like legs that shot a ray of light from its forehead at the speed of light as intense as a "headlamp."
The monster surveyed its surroundings for a moment, then flew into the night with its arms outstretched in a series of jumps.
The turning point took place on October 3, when J.L. Pratt Jr., the manager of a brick factory on the outskirts of town, suddenly heard a strange noise coming from an abandoned coal mine nearby.
Following the sound, Pratt found two monsters at the entrance of the mine, one large and one small, faintly making a noise, and then the monster seemed to notice that someone was approaching, and suddenly flew into the night sky and disappeared.
After the incident spread, the townspeople agreed that the abandoned old mine might be the monster's lair. After all, these mines stretch underground, like spider webs, and there are many dark tunnels and caves inside, which is the perfect place for this monster to make a home.
So the townspeople, armed with weapons they could find, set up camp at the entrance to the mine to see if the monsters would come back and shoot them completely whenever they returned.
Late the next night, these bat-like humanoid monsters with glowing horns did indeed return, also around 1 a.m.
The townspeople did not hesitate to fire on them in unison. But curiously, the bullets didn't seem to do anything to the monsters, and they burrowed into the mine without a word.
Since then, the townspeople have sealed the mine and buried it, and the monsters have not been seen since.
Regrettably, although the monster invasion was mentioned in the newspapers of that year, and even published in the town's centennial album, there was no substantial evidence that the monster actually existed.
In fact, the article is also based on these remnants of written records and old stories roughly restored the true appearance of the event, the authenticity of which remains to be examined, but the world is so huge that the existence of some kind of invader in another dimension does not seem so difficult to accept.
In short, no matter what happens to the townspeople, whether it is ghosts, aliens, mysterious animals, or cross-dimensional existence, the Van Mitte incident, so far, is still a strange case that has not been fully resolved.