Daniel Boone shot a Yay-hoo back in the day.
Teddy Roosevelt wrote about a bigfoot encounter in one of his books. A story he got from an old hunter named Bauman
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/classics/bauman.htm
Lots of stories from the early settlers and Indian tribes about this critter. I can’t say I believe but I am open to it being possible. I live in the mountains and have seen lots of very strange things over the decades that if one demands a logical explanation would take great contrivance and a huge leap of faith to accept or one could say it was a booger that take that same leap of faith.