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If we take the supernatural or aliens off the table? I see three possibilities. 1) Sasquatch is a species of Homo. Maybe after the land bridge it got cut off and technology regressed. It lost the ability to make tools and fire. A lost banished Homo Erectus population that become some thing else. It’s a human cousin that filled a niche we didn’t excel at. A nocturnal lone wolf preferring steep mountainous terrain and boreal forests. They watched us evolve from the edge of the timber line. 2) It’s a species of convergent bipedal evolution from a known group of great apes like Orangutans. Or Paranthropus, Gigantopethicus or some old world ape order now extinct with Sasquatch living on. If we evolved to walk bipedal, diverging from a Chimp like ancestors 4 million years ago? Who is to say it didn’t happen more than once in Africa or Asia? 3) It’s a new world ape that evolved here and was never anywhere else. It shares nothing in common with old world apes other than superficial similarities. Its closest living relative could be a Spider Monkey or some other Amazon Monkey species. An even older example of convergent evolution that has no close relationship with great apes or humans. It’s completely its own species, genus and family. And its fossil record is completely undiscovered. Humans invaded it’s territory only very recently in time scale. There is no male Neanderthal DNA left in the world. People who have 4-8 percent DNA get it from a maternal lineage. Which means that human and Thal hybrid male children either were still born or were sterile. Which means that our two species interbreeding was strained to its limits. Much like what we see with a Donkey and a Horse. Mules are usually 99.9 percent sterile. With an exceptionally rare Molly mule getting pregnant and beating the odds. I have heard similar reports within Indian legends. The child is often still born. There are other stories in the old world but I will just stick with North America. Options 2-3 wouldn’t produce a viable pregnancy much less a fetus. Are the stories to be trusted? We just don’t know. Maybe the woman was pregnant when she was abducted and rough abuse and trauma just eventually aborted the pregnancy .

Bob Gymlan hits a homer: