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I love the legend of Bigfoot, and I've spent enough time among the vast wilderness of the western and northwestern continent of North America to respect how such a concept can be entertained. These forests are unfathomably large, and navigating through them across BC, the Yukon and Alaska is akin to taking a canoe across the Pacific. It's humbling. However, I wholly accept the criticisms of the legend as well, though it has never stopped my imagination from hoping there's more to it, nor has it stifled my fascination with hearing first-hand accounts told by locals and indigenous peoples.
That said... have you checked in on the Bigfoot community lately? Half of those guys have gone fucking nuts and are now inventing entirely new superpowers to explain the mythos. Cloaking devices, interdimensional shifting, time travel, telepathy, and an undeniable link with UFOs and other cryptids. Now that old photos are so easy to replicate with AI, the waters have been even further muddied, and most of these groups just circulate the same obvious fakes. Old sepia photographs of mountaineers standing among groups of them, in miraculously high-definition. Photos that somehow circumvented the public for close to a century and have now appeared with exceptional clarity. Bigfoot fan groups have almost become a social club for schizophrenics. It's wild.
I highly recommend these videos by Channel 5/Andrew Callaghan about it
Pennsylvania Bigfoot Conference
The Man Who Lives with Bigfoot
Glad I read down the thread as I was about to recommend your recommendations.