@sun if you spend an entire long ass time in the forest, without knowing about every single animal, you will think of similar stories

The noises that certain forest animals make, how loud they are, and how hard it is to distinguish IT'S A FUCKING MOOSE BUT i can't tell for sure because 50m and loud noise SCARY AAA WHY AM I HEARING THE SCREAMS OF TWO HUMAN BABIES BEING RIPPED TO SHREDS ALIVE SUDDENLY (it's two foxes talking to each other)

Similarly, skin walkers/wendigo s are a common story because of the incredibly scary and smelly (hint hint, the commonly described metallic blood smell in wendigo stories) deer and similarly horned animals, whose horns are covered in living skin until they have grown fully, after which the living skin slowly peels off in a grotesque, brutal, bloody, and death like smell process, looking like literal meat curtains hanging Infront of a living deer's face, which is also bloodied by this process

Buffalo, bears, moose ,other black and brown furred creatures, each big one capable of making very scary, air quaking screams of aggression and defence, only amplified by the eyes and ears of a frightened human or group of humans in telling.

If a bi pedal, American continents inhabiting hairy hyper sized monkey exists, then there are so few of them in the world, that pandas are significantly less at risk of death by no sex, than the sasquatch in comparison. The existence of such an animal goes into a"tea pot in space" territory, so i think that outside of fun fiction writing/roleplay, any serious deep dive discussing/search for this animal is a waste of resources. (Inb4 fedora tipping about religion)