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What I've found in reading the Indian accounts a and descriptions is a thread of congruency, but also embellishments that are similar to what are being constructed to this very day. Humans do that. Absent concrete information about a mysterious phenomenon, we make crap up. If it is a story that is especially compelling, we add to it to repertoire and amp it up a little for greater effect. The truth of the original event is still there, only just a little harder to discern. So there are a few peeps here who have a difficult time discerning what is baseline information and what is probably embellishment. It pays to know what humans do, when trying to figure out the difference. It also pays to have a firm base of biology, scientific theory and history before you give it a try. Think of it like listening to a bluegrass standard from the 1920's, say. Maybe it is a murder ballad. Those without the knowledge base just hear a weird tale of unrequited love and and mayhem sung in a keening tenor. Those who know better understand it is based on an actual event from the 16th Century that crossed the Atlantic and mutated before emerging from the isolation of the 19th century Southern mountains when sound recording became possible. The song remains the same.

You mean like bigfoot being a myth or reality isn't at the heart of all discussions here between skeptics and proponents?

I have been a subscriber to Sasquatch Chronicles website since it's inception, now the host Wes is facing allegations of hoaxing his own encounter. Some of the individuals on that website put the date of his encounter and the moon phase together, that revealed the date November 16, 2012 did not have a full moon, but rather a sliver of a. moon. Contradicting his account emphatically stating that it was a full moon. Couple that with an e-mail that he sent the next day that purports seeing 3 instead of 4 creatures mentioned in his other accounts, then you have an Admin. on the sight that say she has some evidence to incriminate Wes further, you can kind of see the writing on the wall. That show and website are going down in flames, unless Wes can vindicate himself, I suggested on the website that he undergo a lie detector test. His account certainly does not fall into the normal percentages of what people see, and you would be hard pressed to find an account of that variety and situation. I hate to say it, but I am quickly losing faith, I have been burned so many times in the few short years of my pilgrimage in this Bigfoot world.

Because they have an investment in the position they have taken. Some posters are more interested in winning points that finding the truth.