- Tatunca Nara
Tatunca Nara, born 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 ofAkakor .Akakor
In the 1970's, German foreign correspondent 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, Forstwirt Herbert Wanner of Switzerland in 1983, and Swede Christine Heuser in 1987 all disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
In 1984 Karl Brugger was shot by an unknown assailent in the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
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 disappeard in the early 1960s due to economic difficulties.
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 a 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 aparantly 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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