Tatunca Nara

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Tatunca Nara, born Hans Guenther Hauck (October 5, 1941 Coburg), is German-Brazilian jungle guide and self-styled Indian chieftain, best known as the sole source for stories of the lost city of Akakor.

Akakor

In the 1970s, German foreign correspondent Karl Brugger met "Tatunca Nara", who told him of the history of Akakor, an underground city below the rain forest. Brugger was convinced and wrote "The Chronicle of Akakor“, published in 1976.

Missing tourists

Still working as a jungle guide, Tatunca Nara led tourists and adventureres looking for pyramids and the underground city, but questions were raised after several of his clients went missing: American John Reed in 1980, Herbert Wanner of Switzerland in 1983, and Swede Christine Heuser in 1987 all disappeared in mysterious circumstances. 1984 a skull was found by Swiss tourists which could be identified by forensic analysis as Herbert Wanner.

In 1984 Karl Brugger was shot by an unknown assailent in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The German Police believes, Tatunca was behind the killing.

Exposure

Toward the end of the 1980s the German "Federal Criminal Investigation Office" confirmed that "Tatunca Nara" was born as Günther Hauck in Coburg (Free State of Bavaria) and disappeared in the early 1960s due to economic difficulties. He left a wife and three children in Nuremberg.

In 1990, German adventurer Ruediger Nehberg and film producer Wolfgang Brög tricked Tatunca to take them on an expedition, during which his story began to unravel. The result was an hour-long documentary "Das Geheimnis des Tatunca Nara" (The Mystery of Tatunca Nara), shown on the ARD network in 1991.

Tatunca still lives in Barcelos at the Rio Negro/Brazil, and his passport apparently reads “Tatunca Nara, origin Indian”.

References

Karl Brugger/Tatunca Nara, the chronicle of Akakor. Told of Tatunca Nara, the chieftain of the Ugha Mongulala, 2000, ISBN 3-930219-28-X
Wolfgang Brög “The secret of the Tatunca Nara”. Documentary, 58 min. WDR 1990 /DVD with iris film www.irisfilm.de
Ruediger Nehberg, “Jingle Adventure” - Malik publishing house - ISBN 3-89029-286-0

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