Case file · Cryptid
First record of the chuchuna wild men
Exiled writer Ivan Khudyakov noted rumours in the Verkhoyansk district of wild people with bows living toward the Arctic coast, whom the Tungus called 'khuchana', fugitives.
1868 CE · 67.55, 133.39 · status: legend
The account
Khudyakov's manuscript description of the Verkhoyansk district (1868–69) is the earliest dated record of the chuchuna of Yakut and Evenki tradition: long-haired, skin-clad, speaking unintelligibly, stealing reindeer and food.
Connections in the atlas
- 'The last mülen' killed by a Yakut hunter
- 'Chuchuna' report in Avtonomnaya Yakutia
- Gurvich's 'The Mysterious Chuchuna'