Akakor & Akahim – Underground Amazonian Cities
Akakor · Akahim · Akanis · Akahim second city
Claimed 14,000–10,000 BCE gods' arrival; literary 1976 invention·Claimed Ugha Mongulala with 'Gods' (von Däniken flavored)·🇧🇷 Amazonas, Upper Purus / Juruà–Peru-Brazil border high valley (claimed), Brazil
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About Akakor & Akahim – Underground Amazonian Cities
Elaborate 1976 The Chronicle of Akakor supposedly from Tatunca Nara, self-proclaimed prince of Ugha Mongulala, German journalist Karl Brugger's informant claiming 3,000-year German-Ugha Mongulala contact, three underground cities (Akakor – 'Fort Two' up Purus valley with 13 gates, Akanis on southern frontier, Akahim on northern) built by extraterrestrial-appearing 'Gods' with lenticular ships, storing archives. Brugger murdered 1984 Rio. Later investigations (Rittlinger 1990, Uwe Krüger, Discovery Curse of Akakor 2019) proved Tatunca = Günther Hauck born 1941 Coburg German-Brazilian, not Indian; documents forged; three deaths of expeditions linked to Hauck guidance.
Myth but compelling teaching hoax.
Why it mattersTextbook modern invented underground city; demonstrates how jungle inaccessibility enables persistent hoax; grafts von Däniken ET + Lost World + Indiana Jones tropes.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Who killed Brugger – random robbery or linked?
Theories
- 01Hauck impersonated chief to sell jungle guide services and AS propaganda after German navy father background
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Claimed 13,000 BCE by gods prior to Goths(?)
- Period
- Claimed 14,000–10,000 BCE gods' arrival; literary 1976 invention
- Culture
- Claimed Ugha Mongulala with 'Gods' (von Däniken flavored)
- Purpose
- Mythic subterranean archive and ET contact outpost
- Abandoned
- Not abandoned – claimed actively hidden by tribe
- Rediscovered
- 1972–1976 Tatunca–Brugger interviews in Manaus high-end bar; 1976 book; 1984 Brugger murder in Rio; hoax unmasked 1990–
- Excavation
- Not applicable
1972
Brugger meets Tatunca in Manaus – tells Akakor origin saga
1976
Die Chronik von Akakor published (Econ Verlag)
1984
Brugger shot in Rio – Tatunca/Hauck conspiracy aura
1990–2019
Rittlinger, Krüger, Discovery expose Hauck birth record and forged chronicle
On the ground
Structures & features
5.0000° S · 66.0000° W · 80 m · 4 mapped features
Akakor nominal (Purus high valley claimed)
phantom cityHigh valley border Brazil-Peru claimed Akakor with 13 gates – no coordinates verifiable
6.5000° S · 71.0000° WAkahim (northern city claimed)
phantom cityNorthern Purus city – also vanished
2.0000° S · 64.0000° WBarcelos launch point (real town)
townManaus western launch point for hoax-guided expeditions
0.9750° S · 62.9250° WTatunca's Manaus bar (story origin)
barManaus hotel bar where Tatunca told Brugger tale 1972
3.1310° S · 60.0200° W