My thoughts as well on all these researchers like Finding Bigfoot. What happens if one actually exists, shows up and is highly pissed? What are you going to do then? It would be considered a wild and dangerous animal, not the gentle forest giants these unicorn chasers think is out there.
If you take the reports and read them many are just total crap but some have credibility and in many cases these creatures fall on the violent side, do you really want to be in the middle of the woods provoking such an animal if it exits?
While I think most Big Foot, Sasquatch, Yeti or what have you sightings are either overexcited people imagining things or outright hoaxes, I don’t think it’s ridiculous that there may be a reclusive large, hairy hominid that we don’t know about, since practically every people on every continent have legends of them and a name for them. One of the more chilling accounts I’ve heard involved several college age young men atop Mt. LeConte in the Smokies, in a ranger cabin on a snowy night during a search and rescue for a missing person.