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Chuchunaa
Alternatively Tjutjuna.
Siberia's Bigfoot,
also known as "Siberian Snowman".
The Chuchunaa
(meaning 'outcasts' or 'fugitives') were reported by a branch of the
Soviet Academy of Science as
recently as the 1950s, in the bitterly cold and forbidding region of northeast
Siberia.
The Academy's scientists speculated that these
mysterious beings represented the last surviving remnants of paleo-asiatic aborigines that
had retreated to the upper reaches of the
Yana and
Indigirka rivers.
The Chuchunaa are said to
have an extremely limited range of oral sound. This may have been a genetic mutation
— or is it an indication of these people's Neanderthal
origin? The
Tungus and
Yakut indigenous people's
traditions tell of the Chuchunaa, their newborns looking just like humans,
with pink skin and no hair, but after a year, a mane would cover their bodies.
Most eyewitnesses describe
the Chuchunaa as human-like, being very tall with broad shoulders, having
a protruding brow and long matted hair, usually sporting some type of animal
skin covering. The locals also swear he is a man-eater. Recent reports suggest that they
have withdrawn to even more remote areas, away from encroaching civilization.
See Agogwe,
Abominable
Snowman, Almas, Sasquatch,
Curupira, Higabon,
Kaki Besar, Maricoxi,
Bigfoot,
Mapinguary, Yeti,
Meh-teh, Nguoi Rung, 'X', Windigo,
Orang Pendek and Wildman of China.
Sources: (1)
Anderson, Ivan T.,
Abominable Snowmen: Legend
Come to Life,
Adventures Unlimited Press;
(2)
Wilson, Colin and Damon,
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved,
Carroll & Graf;
(3) Heuvelmans, Bernard,
On the Track of Unknown Animals,
Columbia
University Press;
(4) Wilson, Damon,
The Unexplained,
Scarlet Books; (5) Clark, Jerome,
Unexplained!,
Visible Ink Press.
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