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Dr. Meldrum is greatly missed. Here's an interview providing the point. The doctor's expertise in analyzing footprint evidence is amazing and compelling.  RIP, Dr. Meldrum.    

I know it’s not a joke prediction but, I predict I’ll find my first track! 

So, that would be like a ghost, right?  Although many people (I would venture to say 'most') do not believe in ghosts, I have reasons to believe.  The word 'belief' has been shunned here, particularly in the past, but I don't really know what other word to use.  And, if Bigfoot are ghosts or, 'spiritual entities', that sure would explain a lot.   If we take the premise (or 'assumption') that there are things out there which closely and fairly consistently adhere to descriptions of Bigfoot(s), then we can list several apparent characteristics which would fall into place with the hypothesis that they may be spiritual entities (or, 'ghosts'):   1.) That would explain the difficulty (impossibility?) of Scientific classification of them into the Animal Kingdom. 2.) That might explain their unprecedented elusiveness and even reports that they seem to vanish into thin air. 3.) That would probably explain the difficulty in determining what their diet is (if they don't have a diet). 4.) That would certainly explain why Bigfoot remains don't seem to exist. 5.) And, among other things, that would correspond to reported 'lights' and 'luminescence' in areas where they are spotted.   Many folks will disagree that this could even be a possibility but 'given', the two premises that seem unavoidable to me:  1.) things are out there which are being described as Bigfoot, and 2.) there must be some explanation for that (eventually); the spiritual entity explanation seems, at least for now, possible.  ^ good point Huntster.  (I was working on the above when you posted.)  But, the feral human explanation would leave most of the 'High Strangeness' still unexplained.  And, could feral Homo Sapiens really have evolved that quickly into Bigfoot?

Many of these native stories describe these wild people as humans who went wild for various reasons. Of course, we already know that feral people are a thing. It's a proven fact. Zana has now been proven to have been a feral human, and of extremely unlikely form (African in Central Asia, extremely tall for a female, hirsute, and extremely strong. Thus, in addition to misidentifications and manufactured sightings, a percentage of evidence is that of feral Homo sapiens.

There is the possibility of it being just a spiritual entity from Native Americans teachings.  Then of course the possibility of being a living relic that survives in the here and now. One of our distant ancestors.  Therefore not monster or mythical.