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Cryptids592 stories · page 20

Balkin's Tatzelwurm Photograph, Aare Gorge

c. 1934 · Aare Gorge (Aareschlucht), between Meiringen and Innertkirchen, Haslital, Bernese Oberland

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

17Thinly documented

Marmaduke Wetherell's Loch Ness Monster Footprints

December 1933 · South shore of Loch Ness, near Foyers, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources · 2 photos

22Thinly documented

Hugh Gray's Photograph: The First Claimed Photo of the Loch Ness Monster

November 12, 1933 · Mouth of the River Foyers, Foyers, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 4 photos

36Partially documented

Cadborosaurus: The Langley and Kemp Sightings off Victoria, 1932 and 1933

c. 1933 · Chatham Islands, Haro Strait, near Oak Bay and Cadboro Bay, Victoria, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 44 sources

33Partially documented

The Gippsland Monster: a lioness, a tiger and a postman's boots in eastern Victoria, 1933 to 1935

October 1933 · Gunyah, Tanjil and Briagolong, Gippsland, Victoria

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

36Partially documented

Alex Campbell's Borlum Bay sighting, Loch Ness (1933, later dated May 1934)

September 1933 · Borlum Bay, off the mouth of the River Oich, Fort Augustus, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

11Thinly documented

The Spicer Land Sighting of the Loch Ness Monster

July 22, 1933 · Dores to Foyers road (today's B852), near Whitefield, south-east shore of Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

24Thinly documented

The Largs Bay sea serpent off Aden, 1933

May 1933 · Off Aden, Gulf of Aden

Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources

18Thinly documented

Aldie and John Mackay's Strange Spectacle in Loch Ness

c. 1933 · North shore road near Abriachan Pier, opposite Aldourie, Loch Ness, Highlands, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources

18Thinly documented

The 1932 Snallygaster Revival and the Frog Hollow Moonshine Still

c. 1932 · Sugar Loaf area (Sugarloaf Mountain) and Frog Hollow, Washington, Frederick and upper Montgomery counties, Maryland

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

29Thinly documented

The Kasai Rex: The Kassaisaurus April Fools' Hoax of the Belgian Congo

February 16, 1932 · Kasai valley, Belgian Congo (fictional setting; regional pin on the upper Kasai)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

6Thinly documented

The Olitiau Giant Bat Encounter, Assumbo Mountains (1932)

1932 · Assumbo Mountains, Mamfe Division, British Cameroons (now Manyu Division, South-West Region, Cameroon)

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

19Thinly documented

Ivan Sanderson's "m'koo m'bemboo" on the Mainyu River, British Cameroons

1932 · Mamfe Pool, Mainyu (Manyu) River, Mamfe Division, British Cameroons

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources

28Thinly documented

Gef the Talking Mongoose, the Dalby Spook of Doarlish Cashen

September 1931 · Doarlish Cashen (Cashen's Gap), near Dalby, parish of Patrick, Isle of Man

Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources · 1 photos

31Partially documented

Michael Trent's marozi: the spotted lions of the Aberdare Range

1931 · Aberdare Range (Aberdare Mountains), central Kenya

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources · 1 photos

36Partially documented

The Glacier Island "Monster in the Ice", Prince William Sound, Alaska

November 10, 1930 · Eagle Bay, Glacier Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources · 10 photos

48Partially documented

Two boys drive off a monkey-like animal at the Nullica River, NSW

c. 1930 · Nullica River, near Eden, New South Wales

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

13Thinly documented

The tanker Brunswick rammed by giant squid between Hawaii and Samoa

c. 1930 · Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Samoa

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 9 sources

13Thinly documented

Two sea serpents off Cayuga Lake's eastern shore (Old Greeny), 1929

c. 1929 · Eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, Finger Lakes region, New York

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

16Thinly documented

Muchalat Harry carried off by a Sasquatch (Conuma River, Vancouver Island, 1928)

1928 · Conuma River, head of Tlupana Inlet, Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Cryptid · Creature · 35 sources

15Thinly documented

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