S6 Ep10: This Whole Affair Stinks! The Van Meter Visitor

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Sep 3, 202642:45Society & Culture

In the late 1800s, the people of Van Meter, Iowa, were beset by a most unwelcome (and stinky) guest who eluded capture and left the residents terrified. Was The Van Meter Visitor real, or just the product of one person's...

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