Chuchunaa

Chuchunaa
a.k.a.	Chuchuna, chuchunya, chuchun, tjutjuna; the Siberian Snowman
Country	Russia
Region(s)	Siberia

Chuchunaa (transliterated from Russian, also as chuchuna, chuchunya, chuchun, tjutjuna; compare in Russian, from Yakut: чучуна, or чуучус, translated as "ghost, evil spirit") is an appellation of Yakut/Sakha origin for a folkloric wild people of the Siberian geographical region of Russia. Soviet historian B. F. Porshnev, a collaborator of Bernard Heuvelmans (L'Homme de Néanderthal est Toujours Vivant, 1974), suggested that the folklore may refer to a relict population of Paleo-Asiatic Aborigines or Neanderthals, linking the chuchunaa to crypto-hominids like Yeti, Sasquatch, or Bigfoot.

Resources

• Chuchunaa, the 'Siberian Snowman' or 'Tjutjuna', unknownexplorers.com, https://web.archive.org/web/20160307131750/http://www.unknownexplorers.com/chuchunaa.php 

Reading

• Гурвич, И. С. (1975) (in Russian), Таинственный чучуна (история одного этнографического поиска), М.: Мысль