I enjoy the stories, and the chill that runs up my spine when I hear coyotes or pumas howl up in Desolation Wilderness at night while on an extended backpack trip. But I'm going to have to go with the side of "no proof, no truth" on this one. I won't say it's impossible, but I do think it highly improbable.

Sasquatch tales did make for great summer camp "out-in-the-woods overnight roasting marshmallows over the fire" stories though. Well, too good maybe. My fellow counselors and I got in some light trouble a couple weeks after one kid had gone home (he was about 13-14). His parents had called and complained that the camp-out stories/pranks had scared him so bad that he was having nightmares and waking up yelling and screaming. We had to tone it down a bit after that, meh.