In 1973, Erich von Däniken, at the height of his fame, claimed in his book
The Gold of the Gods that he had found a gigantic subterranean tunnel system in Southern America. It was a major claim - and one that seriously would tarnish his profile, for his source would soon deny he had said no such thing. For many, the incident proved that von Däniken was a fabricator of lies.
The story that brought von Däniken to South America partly began in the Brazilian town of Manaus. There, on March 3, 1972, a German journalist Karl Brugger met a local Amazonian Indian, Tatunca Nara, in the backstreet tavern
Gracas a Deus. The meeting would result in Brugger's book
The Chronicle of Akakor, published in 1976, which saw a number of foreign editions and
created the legend of Akakor, a mythical town somewhere deep within the Amazonian jungle, still left to be discovered.
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©Karl Brugger
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