The Van Meter Visitor | Paranormal PodcastThis week, we head to a sleepy coal mining town in Iowa to dig into one of the strangest and most underrated cryptid cases in American history, the Van Meter Monster, a 9-foot, bat-winged, beak-faced, horn-headed creature with a literal blinding searchlight beam shooting from its forehead and a stench so overwhelming witnesses nearly dropped, that terrorized the small town of Van Meter across five consecutive nights starting September 29th, 1903. We

Tonight's calls will chill you to the bone, and to make things even more mysterious, all of tonight's callers decided to remain completely anonymous. Keep it spooky and enjoy!Season 21 Episode 43 of Monsters Among Us Podcast, true paranormal stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and more, told by the witnesses themselves.SHOW NOTES:Support the show! Get ad-free, extended & bonus episodes (and more) on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/monstersamonguspodcastTonight's Sponsor - BetterHelp - Get 10%

When you think of bird migrations, you might think of a bluebird or a robin first. But some owls do migrate – such as the Short-eared Owl, which flies south for the winter. Northern Saw-whet Owls were once thought non-migratory, but in fact they travel at night, unseen. Snowy Owls breed in the Arctic then wander toward the south, staying wherever they can find food. Some Burrowing Owls spend their whole life in one place. But others migrate every spring and fall with the regularity of a

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!Not every paranormal investigation is about a ghost haunting an old house. Sometimes the activity feels darker—and figuring out exactly what you’re dealing with becomes much more complicated.For more than 27 years, John.John Montelongo has investigated the paranormal and worked with people who believe they’re dealing with something they can’t explain. As founder and lead investigator of Texas-based Dark Explorers Paranormal, he takes on cases involving claims

She had been inside the house dozens of times before and never thought there was anything unusual about it.Then one afternoon, she glanced toward a mirror in the front room and saw a man standing at the bottom of the staircase.She turned immediately. The stairs were empty.What made the experience harder to dismiss was that someone else had already described seeing a pale male face in that same mirror months earlier. Later, another person in the house would report seeing what sounded like the same

What if light could become a switch for the brain? 💡🧠The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine highlights a remarkable scientific journey: from tiny green algae that sense light to a technology that allows scientists to control the activity of specific cells with precisely timed flashes of light.This episode explores the development of optogenetics—how researchers discovered light-gated ion channels, transformed them into biological tools, and used them to manipulate neural circuits with

Today, the Safari heads to Portland, Oregon, for the 2026 AZA Annual Conference! I chat with multiple guests about their experiences at the conference! Guests include:Dr. Lisa Dabek of Woodland Park Zoo and the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program Dr. Jenn Torpie of the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium and SAFE Red Panda Schaneé Anderson of Sedgwick County Zoo Kaylee Doughty, Andrew Evans, Heidi Schultz, Sean DePaola, and Jaiden Landsdowne-Vaughn of Friends University Elaina Jones, a former student at the

This episode we talk about the first and most recent Canadian astronauts as well as some fun cosmological news in terms of black holes and white dwarves. With all of the interesting things happening out there in the Cosmos we also cover a bit of what you can see in the sky at night. This episode features co-hosts Arfa Ali and Mahesh Aravamudan. (Image credit: NASA) Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau operated the Canadarm during space shuttle mission STS-97 as well as STS-77.

Not long after moving into a new rental, her husband began sleepwalking for the first time since childhood.But he always went to the same place: the spare bedroom.Night after night, she found him standing beside the bed, staring toward the corner and listening to someone she couldn’t see. More than once, he told her the same thing—a woman wanted him to stay.Then she heard the woman too. Even more unsettling, their children admitted they had heard her speaking near that room when both parents were

As a child, he spent plenty of time doing things that probably should have ended badly.One afternoon, while playing around a partially assembled home with his cousins, he slipped into a gap between two sections of the structure. Below him were large metal spikes, and he knew immediately that he was falling toward them.His cousins were already on the other side. No one was close enough to grab him. And yet, somehow, he never fell. Something stopped his momentum and pushed him backward hard enough to

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWOChicago’s history is rich, vibrant—and in some places, deeply tragic.In this classic episode of The Grave Talks, we explore two of the Windy City’s most haunting locations with Tony Szabelski, longtime investigator and tour guide with Chicago Hauntings.Our journey begins with the devastating legacy of the Iroquois Theater, where more than 600 lives were lost in one of the deadliest theater fires in American history. Though the flames were extinguished

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She was in fourth grade, spending a summer afternoon playing upstairs with her cousin, when they both heard something just outside the bedroom.At first, she assumed it was the dog. Then they looked toward the doorway.Whatever was there made both girls freeze—and then run from the room without stopping to figure out what they had just seen. No one else was supposed to be inside the house, and when they found her mother outside, she confirmed they had been alone.More than forty years later, the

She chose the old schoolhouse legend for a history project and quickly discovered that almost everyone had the story wrong.The storm had been real, but the horrific death toll repeated for generations had been wildly exaggerated. Even the haunting stories seemed like folklore layered onto a tragedy that had grown larger with every retelling.Then she and two friends visited the abandoned school site after dark.  They heard children laughing in the empty field. They saw what looked like a small

At first, it was easy to blame forgetfulness. A work badge vanished and reappeared. Earbuds turned up somewhere no one remembered leaving them. A spare key disappeared from a drawer and somehow returned days later.Then a bracelet vanished from the kitchen table while two sisters were sitting right beside it—and later appeared in the bathroom.Soon came footsteps, cabinet doors, and noises from empty rooms. But the strangest moment came when a necklace lost months earlier suddenly appeared in the

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI's real productivity gain is an order of magnitude smaller than the industry claims.The bigger danger is not the machine. It is that a handful of people are deciding how it gets built. Daron Acemoglu is an MIT economist who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. We cover: why a Nobel chemist left Berkeley for China, the optimal amount of heresy science should tolerate, the one rule that would end algorithmic outrage without censoring anyone, the

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!Chicago’s history is rich, vibrant—and in some places, deeply tragic.In this classic episode of The Grave Talks, we explore two of the Windy City’s most haunting locations with Tony Szabelski, longtime investigator and tour guide with Chicago Hauntings.Our journey begins with the devastating legacy of the Iroquois Theater, where more than 600 lives were lost in one of the deadliest theater fires in American history. Though the flames were extinguished long ago,