The same principle applies to Sasquatch v. Bigfoot. "Sasquatch" as a name seems to originate from the Salish tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver Island. Their legends describe a creature anywhere from 6-15 feet tall. Also silent. Except when emitting "a high-pitched cry." Cue the screaming. Central California has pictographs, thousands of years old, which show what's possibly Sasquatch, with a family.
"Bigfoot" didn't actually get applied to the thing until about 1958, when the term was coined by a newspaper columnist, who thought it scanned better. Some claim Bigfoot inhabits a larger range of territory, including much of the woodlands of North America. Nobody's ever captured one. According to Mental Floss, hunting them is illegal in Washington State, among other places. (In Texas, on the other hand, it isn't a problem.) The famous Patterson-Gimlin film from 1967, purporting to capture a few seconds of a Bigfoot/Sasquatch on a stroll, is still debated more than 50 years later, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Sasquatch/Bigfoot is technically classified as a cryptid — defined by Merriam-Webster as "an animal ... that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist." Maybe so, maybe no. Those woods are deep. And oh-so-dark.
