I wonder if Nessie, Champ, Yeti, Bigfoot and others are real...I think so...
Definitely not a bear. Willing to give it the benefit of the doubt
I don’t know about those; and I don’t believe in UFOS as ‘ETs visiting us’, either - I read almost every book that came out about UFO in my youth.
But there’s just something about Bigfoot. Here’s a good article about Teddy Roosevelt’s telling of a bigfoot story in his book:
https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Teddy-Roosevelt-Bigfoot