The Van Meter Visitor
In 1903, a number of respectable residents of
Van Meter, Iowa reported encounters with strange flying entities, that seemed to be looking for something in the buildings along the main street. The creatures appear to have been material beings rather than spirits, though they were highly resistant to bullets from early twentieth-century small arms. The Bedtime Stories channel on YouTube has
a twenty minute video on the incident. My current thought for this setting is that they were either aliens (whether from space or from a parallel dimension, perhaps coming through a worldgate in the mine), or the products of a mad scientist's work, though there's an outside possibility of something weirder, like Embodied spirits, or bats mutated by something the mine-workers exposed.
What do you think? Also, is it interesting enough to try statting it out, and if so, what do you suggest?