At the stroke of dawn

This was heard on the podcast, So Supernatural. Yvette Gentile was discussing the 1903 case of the Van Meter Visitor. People from the town of Van Meter, Iowa were waiting to see a cryptid appear after someone in town saw it on top of buildings, etc. They waited outside of the entrance to a mine where it was seen going into all night and then “right at the stroke of dawn” it appeared. This is a mashup of “stroke of midnight” (precise moment a new day begins) and “crack of dawn” (time very early in the morning). A big thanks to Anthony Kovacs for sharing this timely malaphor.