Case file · Folklore / legend
The Chronicle of Akakor
In 1976 German journalist Karl Brugger published The Chronicle of Akakor, the story told to him by 'Tatunca Nara', who claimed to be chief of a hidden people living in underground cities left by 'gods' on the Brazil-Peru border.
1976 CE · -0.97, -62.92 · status: hoax
The account
Tatunca Nara worked as a jungle guide from Barcelos on the Rio Negro. German police later confirmed he was Günther Hauck, born in Bavaria in 1941. Brugger was shot dead in Rio de Janeiro in 1984.
The sceptical view
Exposed by adventurer Rüdiger Nehberg; no trace of Akakor exists.
Connections in the atlas
- Ratanabá, the fake lost capital
- John Reed lost on the way to Akakor
- Herbert Wanner's skull
- Christine Heuser vanishes