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I'm not there .. because of what I've seen first hand .. but I am becoming jaded regarding the notion we're going to get "proof", regarding the idea that bigfoot will someday be something in the biology text rather than in the mythology text.    It is almost as if there is something "funny" going on.   Even if the goal is merely to understand better rather than to prove,  the options seem to be a) give up or b) plow forward despite lack of hope.   I think maybe this is why some of the old researchers eventually turned down the woo rabbit hole .. because they know something and can't prove it, why Todd Standing seemingly tried to create evidence when he could not find it, why .. etc.

The older I get the more and more i fall into the belief that Sasquatch is likely a myth   I'm still open to Sasquatch being a real flesh and blood creature that the US government is covering up their existence    

That is an insightful question.      I saw what I saw, I know what I know.   Though convincing to me, because I was there observing, not merely hearing the account afterwards, I would be disappointed if anyone looked at my sighting accounts as anything other than "just another anecdote" so far as "proof" goes.   I don't even have a picture to back them up with.    That makes them, frankly, pretty weak sauce so far as proving anything at all.    I hope that for someone already convinced by some other body of evidence, they are interesting and maybe educational, maybe fill in some gaps.       At least for a couple of the tracks I do have pictures.   They are open to interpretation.    For interested individuals, they might well be interesting / educational, but I have no delusions that those constitute proof either.   They'd barely make the grade as serious evidence.   Same for the audio.    All are most useful as interesting data points for those who are interested.   They should never be thought of as proof or even as strong evidence.   Does this make sense?  I hope so, hope it gives some context for how I see my own meager "offerings."

After some research, here is what I found out about Jacko, the juvenile bigfoot found in Canada. Nov 18 The story of Jacko The story of Jacko – that of a small, apelike, young Sasquatch said to have been captured alive in the 1800s – is a piece of folklore that refuses to die, despite a superb investigative article published in 1975, co-authored by John Green and Sabina W. Sanderson. The investigation into the Jacko story did not began until decades later. During the 1950s, a news reporter named Brian McKelvie became interested in the then-current stories of the Sasquatch being carried by his local British Columbian papers. McKelvie searched for older reports. What he found was the Daily British Colonist July 4, 1884, article about Jacko. The account detailed the sighting of a smallish hairy creature (“something of the gorilla type”) supposedly seen and captured near Yale, British Columbia, on June 30, 1884, and housed in a local jail. McKelvie shared the Jacko account with researchers John Green and René Dahinden. MeKelvie told them this was the only record of the event due to a fire that had destroyed other area newspapers of the time. In 1958 John Green found and interviewed a man (August Castle) who remembered the Jacko talk of the time, but he said his parents did not take him to the jail to see the beast. Other senior citizens remembered the talk of the creature, but no one could produce any truly good evidence for or eyewitness accounts (other than the British Colonist story) of Jacko. The story’s appearance in Ivan T. Sanderson’s 1961 Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life propelled the Jacko incident into history. Other authors, including John Green, René Dahinden/Don Hunter, Grover Krantz, and John Napier, would follow. The story was repeated again and again.

You make some very good points in regard to Jacko and if correct the story was repeated in some newspaper. I will do some research to find out what newspaper. If it was written about, there is a chance that the author created a fantastical story about a supposed ape. There is also a 50% chance that the story is true and some unidentified primate was found on the railroad tracks and captured. I will do some research to find more information on Jacko. Let's not throw the report in the trash can yet. Let's allow a chance that the story is true. By the way your post is very informative, well written, and an interesting read.