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The Onkerzele Apparitions: Léonie Van den Dijck and the Virgin
August 4, 1933 · Lourdes grotto and apparition chapel, St Martin's Church, Onkerzele, Geraardsbergen, East Flanders
Belgium
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 28 sources
32Partially 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
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
24Thinly documented
Frank Smythe's "Pulsating Teapots" on Everest
June 1, 1933 · North face of Mount Everest, about 200 ft above Camp VI, looking toward the north ridge, Tibet
China
UAP · Other · 25 sources
23Thinly documented
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The Largs Bay sea serpent off Aden, 1933
May 1933 · Off Aden, Gulf of Aden
Yemen
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
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources
18Thinly documented
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Our Lady of Banneux, the "Virgin of the Poor"
January 15, 1933 · Banneux, Sprimont, Liège Province
Belgium
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
24Thinly documented
The Scandinavian Ghost Fliers, 1933-34 and 1936-37
c. 1933 · Northern Scandinavia: Norrland (Sweden), northern Norway and northern Finland
Sweden
UAP · Other · 17 sources
36Partially documented
The Magenta Crash and Mussolini's Gabinetto RS/33
1933 · Magenta, Lombardy
Italy
UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources
3Thinly documented
The Beauraing Apparitions, Our Lady of the Golden Heart (1932-1933)
November 29, 1932 · Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur boarding school, Beauraing, Namur province
Belgium
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources · 1 photos
28Thinly documented
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The Marston Moor phantom Cavaliers
November 5, 1932 · Marston Moor, near Long Marston, North Yorkshire, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 17 sources
16Thinly documented
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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
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
29Thinly documented
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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
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The Olitiau Giant Bat Encounter, Assumbo Mountains (1932)
1932 · Assumbo Mountains, Mamfe Division, British Cameroons (now Manyu Division, South-West Region, Cameroon)
Cameroon
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
19Thinly documented
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Ivan Sanderson's "m'koo m'bemboo" on the Mainyu River, British Cameroons
1932 · Mamfe Pool, Mainyu (Manyu) River, Mamfe Division, British Cameroons
Cameroon
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
Isle of Man
Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources · 1 photos
31Partially documented
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Gef the talking mongoose: the Dalby Spook of Cashen's Gap
September 1931 · Doarlish Cashen (Cashen's Gap), Dalby Mountain, near Dalby, Isle of Man
Isle of Man
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 34 sources · 8 photos
41Partially documented
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The Ezkioga apparitions on the Anduaga hillside
June 29, 1931 · Anduaga hillside, Ezkioga (Ezquioga), Gipuzkoa, Basque Country
Spain
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 41 sources
35Partially documented
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Francis Chichester's Airship over the Tasman Sea
June 6, 1931 · Tasman Sea, off the coast of New South Wales, between Lord Howe Island and Jervis Bay (estimated about 80 miles east of Sydney)
International waters
UAP · Cigar · 12 sources
15Thinly documented
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St Faustina Kowalska's vision of the King of Divine Mercy, Płock, 1931
February 22, 1931 · Convent of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, Stary Rynek 14/18, Płock
Poland
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 62 sources
26Thinly documented
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Michael Trent's marozi: the spotted lions of the Aberdare Range
1931 · Aberdare Range (Aberdare Mountains), central Kenya
Kenya
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources · 1 photos
36Partially documented

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