There is also the issue of jealousy........ Hoaxing does not make any sense when I can easily get my butt to the woods and have an encounter. It could be a photo, a sound, an interaction, etc. Too bad there are some that would rather sling mud than do some work.
I don't know how many times I have seen or heard statements by people that made me think, "Man, you should have been in the discussion at BFF before you said that."
Crow doesn't take into consideration the newspaper reports from around the country pre-PG times. Many news stories go back into the 1800's. I wonder if that had anything to do with the subject spreading out of the PNW - no it just doesn't seem crow-logical at all.