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I hear what is likely a Hairy or Downy Woodpecker foraging. Light pecks at tree bark to uncover insects.

Okay, a better statement is that there are limited documented or reported sightings. If a sighting occurs in the woods and it isn't reported to a research group, then it doesn't add to the base of knowledge about Bigfoot. Why would a research group, such as the BFRO, the Forums, or whatever group exists in Massachusetts ridicule witnesses? Numerous people have given detailed accounts of their sightings here on the Forums; I don't recall any of them being ridiculed. In fact, the Forums management has banished members who ridicule other members and/or their reported accounts. I'm sure that the Forums' membership would welcome a description of these encounters (usually in the sightings Forum, Massachusetts reports would go in the northeast sightings subforum). If the report was detailed enough, they would likely be added to the SSR (the Forums' database) so that other researchers, who may be more reserved about posting, can use them in their research. I post about things I research online because despite quite a bit of hiking in the Daks, Catskills, Canada, out west, and several grid searches in remote woods in New York, I haven't had an encounter, seen a track, heard a knock, or found any wood structure/manipulation that's attributable to anything other than nature or humans. Since I don't have the good fortune of knowing they exist through a first hand encounter (the only real way to know until someone puts a body (or two?) on a slab for dissection), the only thing that will persuade me one way or the other is research. I haven't questioned your claims, merely added context to assist others to make their own decisions about them. Look forward to hearing more reports from your research. As noted above, it seems to be a potential example of the halibut effect (which I note for newcomers is described on the BFRO website, in Cliff Barackman's podcasts, and probably somewhere here in the forums).

That doesn't refute what I said.