they were human- discovery or history channel did a special on them not long ago- had some testing done themselves, and found them to be fully human according to the results- and the stories of them were simply legends- exaggerated most likely- “Strong? Deformed?” Gee, that combo has never occurred in humans- must be apemen
Les Stroud (Survivorman) is now doing a show looking for Bigfoot. I imagine it will still just be him out ther alone with his cameras. It will be interesting to see - he seems like a pretty level-headed guy. But, I do recall an interview at the end of his original run years ago when someone asked him if he had ever seen anything strange in his treks alone out in the wild.
He said yes, once. Not saying it was a Bigfoot, but it sure looked like a Bigfoot!
Talking about wild people in Russia, there was a story on FR awhile ago about a family that survived out in the wilds of Russia after fleeing their village in the 1930’s. Some mining exploration people guy came across them in 1978.