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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · By Kristian Day

    Do you believe in ghosts? | CITYVIEW (opens the original)

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    I’m not a believer. And if people ever ask me to explain what that means, I won’t tell them. You can interpret that however you want to. That’s fine by me. A week before writing this story, I took a trip to Farrar Elementary School in Maxwell. I knew nothing about it outside of what I had found on the internet. My immediate interpretation was this place was another tourist trap for cheap thrills and carnival tricks helmed by two Gen Z YouTube stars, Sam and Colby — two people I have neve

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · By Kristian Day

    Van Meter’s ‘Visitor’ keeps the legend alive | CITYVIEW (opens the original)

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    The odds of seeing a winged monster in Van Meter, Iowa, are slim. Chad Lewis knows that. He spent more than 30 years investigating strange reports and has learned that a trip in search of the unexplained rarely ends with an explanation. Yet, each year, hundreds of people come to this small town for the Van Meter Visitor Festival. The possibility of finding the creature is only part of the draw. The rest is a chance to walk through a story where it supposedly happened. In 1903, newspaper accounts

  3. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · By Kristian Day

    The night Des Moines started to feel like home | CITYVIEW (opens the original)

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    Bury Your Dead played at People’s Court in 2010. September is here. School is back in session. The Iowa State Fair is over, which is Iowa’s official way of announcing that summer has packed its bags. It is also my birthday month. On Sept. 11, I will turn 41. I have lived in Des Moines since 2007. I moved here from Denver, where entire neighborhoods seemed to come alive at night. Bands played at places such as the Ogden Theatre and the Gothic Theatre; when the shows ended, everyone seemed to

  4. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · By Kristian Day

    Neighborhood parking lots of the Iowa State Fair | CITYVIEW (opens the original)

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    Iowa State Fair time is here once again. Over the years, I have written about strange stories from Iowa’s celebrated event. In 2017, I became completely obsessed with the infamous neighborhood parking lots of the Iowa State Fair — the front lawns of the residents who live in the Fairgrounds Neighborhood on the east side. You might even call that area “The Gateway to the Iowa State Fair.” I even produced a short film about the subject. In 2017, I was working on the series called “Play B

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