I was interested in the yeti and Bigfoot at one time.
When I lived in Washington state in the early 70s I occasionally spent time with various Indians and a couple of them had tales, one tribe member on the US Canada border area said that tribes people had seen them at a distant and were very aware of them but no contact would ever happen.
A white guy related a tale of his uncle and buddies being in a cabin in the forest and having some bigfoot harassing the cabin while they were scared inside.
Teddy Roosevelt published an interesting anecdote about it.
[I was interested in the Yeti and Bigfoot at one time.]
Elaine, shiks-appeal is a myth, like the Yeti.
Or his cousin, the North American Sasquatch.