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I'm in the UK too. I wouldn't ordinarily say too much as a first posting , but as I understand it, that's a requIrement. I'm here to learn you see, and I expect that there are plenty of very knowledgeable people on the subject who don't need to listen to my relatively ill informed observations just yet. I'm absolutely fascinated by the subject and I watch and love all the "finding Bigfoot" type stuff, although I don't think that's necessarily the most serious way of investigating it. I've read a lot about Bigfoot and similar creatures in many countries and in different periods of history and I suppose it's a kind of hobby at this point. During all this I've reached certain views as to the nature of the creature and the most effective ways to substantiate its existence ,( or otherwise). It might well be that some of these will be dispelled once I've spoken to those with direct experience and that's what I'm hoping to do. As the last person said , you won't see too many Sasquatch in the UK, ( although actually I think they might well have existed here in the past before the great forests were cleared), so I want to hear the views of those who have had the opportunity of more practical observations.

And for the same reason a chicken uses to cross a road. Why do mountain goats leave their habitat to frolick in towns? For the same reason chickens cross roads.......... https://www.matsugov.us/news/mountain-goat-takes-a-rest-downtown-palme (I added the video so that those who suspect that it was Bob in a goat suit could analyze it properly for the next half century.........)

It's ludicrous you imagine being able to assign reasons for a prehistoric animal to move (or not move once opportunity occurs) from one locale to another. Just stop. It's silly. Ever heard of punctuated equilibrium? Rapid evolution.

How would a ancestral being sound since there is no way to really classify them yet. I just cannot go along with what is on the poll. Since neither of them really fit the poll I just feel like they fit the bill to what I have seen and have experienced . The only problem is that they have manifested into the flesh and blood form. What else could explain what others have experienced to the mindspeak and the dimensional stuff that goes on. Also all the other weird stuff that is associated with this creature like these orbs that people see.

In modern taxonomy Gigantopithecus is actually classified as a hominid, along with the great apes and several other extinct apes. If we're talking about close relatives of Homo, the correct term is hominins or homininans (depending on whether you include or exclude chimpanzees). I vote Gigantopithecus because it's the best we've got right now. The size is about right (maybe on the large side), the ecology fits given certain assumptions, and there's a plausible migration path. The million dollar question of course, is whether or not Gigantopithecus was bipedal. If it wasn't, forget about it. The homininan options are implausible and IMO not deserving of serious consideration by researchers. The first problem is height: The tallest Paranthropus specimen found to date was barely over 5 feet tall. Homo erectus maxed out around 6 feet, and aside from one disputed estimate H. heidelbergensis was in the 5' range, as were the Neanderthals. These aren't even worthy of the name "Bigfoot." Furthermore, unless paleontologists' reconstructions have grossly underestimated hair coverage, these species were nowhere near as hairy as Bigfoot was reported to be. Finally, none of these except for Paranthropus had the sagittal crest described in many Bigfoot reports. And if you're inclined to support the authenticity of the Patterson-Gimlin film, it would seem that the homininan options listed and the film's subject are mutually exclusive. At this point, nobody even agrees on what Meganthropus was. Paleontologists' opinions range from it being a close relative of H. erectus to it being more distantly related to us than the gorilla.