I remember teens who, fifty two years ago, would wrap themselves in aluminum foil and stand on the shoulder of the highway after dark to frighten drivers.
There has never been any DNA proof of bigfoot. The standard method is to place a bait on the ground, then put a barbed wire fence around it, then come back later and collect hair samples from the fence.
Do you know how many game cameras are put up across the South, not to mention how many hunters are in the woods? There ain’t no skunk ape.
We have a local Fish and Game guy that’s known as The Bear Spanker. He devised a spring-loaded contraption that swings out and snags hair samples from bears that visit tetracycline-loaded baits in trees.