The Chuchunya: Siberia’s Wild Man of the Frozen Taiga
About 6 min readIn the frozen taiga of Yakutia, the Yakut people tell of a tall, hair-covered wild man who wears animal skins, outruns reindeer, and watches hunters from the tree line. Russian explorers recorded him in the 1840s, Soviet ethnographers collected dozens of accounts, and no one has ever explained him away.