Case file · Cryptid
Gurvich's 'The Mysterious Chuchuna'
Ethnographer Ilya Gurvich, after three decades on the material, concluded that the chuchuna were stranded coastal Chukchi carried by ice to Yakutia who survived by stealing.
1975 CE · 62.02, 129.72 · status: explained
The account
Gurvich's book offered a human, historical reading of the wild-man stories, against Boris Porshnev's hypothesis of surviving Neanderthal-like hominids in northern Asia.