Since all bigfooters truly have are anecdotes...let's get anecdotal.
This nice custodian where I use to work was digging out a pond and discovered pterodactyl bones. People find bones of animals that lived millions of years ago with some regularity. With all of the digging, erosion exposing the earth, and construction projects - why haven't we dug up bigfoot bones of an animal that supposedly exists to this day?
I spend a lot of time outdoors. You name it, if it is in Michigan I've stumbled into it. Lost humans in the woods? Helped them get home. A dead person that committed suicide in the woods? It ruined my month. A rare massive dead sturgeon about 7 feet in length washed up on the beach? Found it. Dead bear? Check. Seen rare wolves, yep. Why does no one find a dead Bigfoot body ever? They are seen all over the country, including where I live - certainly some would be dying laying around to be found, drowning - floating down stream...
I once talked to a guy who was studying animal populations with FLIR technology. They could survey vast areas and often through foliage by picking up the heat of the animal. The technology was so good they could tell a chipmunk from a squirrel. Nothing resembling bigfoot ever popped up. They also use this technology to scan for small forest fires at times. Government agencies and universities have been scanning vast tracks on natural areas and wilderness...and no bigfeet. Why?
The human brain is a tricky thing. It is arguably the most complex thing man knows of ironically enough. It tries to make sense out of randomness.
Two times in my life while jogging deep in the woods I thought I saw a telephone poll - the kind with the perpendicular cable bars on top - knowing there are no telephone polls through the woods, I stopped jogging and looked again. Not there. Should I report phantom ghost telephone polls? Or did my mind play a trick on me for a split second.
I had been arguing with my father-in-law over bigfoot. He is an avid outdoorsman, he has never seen one or any evidence of one, but believes in them, as he also believes in ghosts, demons, and loch ness style monsters in Michigan waters...he has a real wide open mind. My wife and were walking down a wooded road talking of bigfoot, when she thought she caught a glimpse of bigfoot crossing the road for a split second. The area was very densely wooded and the bend in the road made it impossible to see much ahead. So I sprinted forward hoping to see what it was that she saw -- figuring that it had to be trapped on that side of the road as there is a lake just 40 yards through the woods. To make a long story short. It was a very tall man, dressed in dark clothes that had been enjoying the state park on the opposite side of the road and was returning to his car.
Is it not possible that people can misidentify things easily and unintentionally?
Extraordinary claims require solid evidence.
Why is there only flimsy evidence at best and anecdotes?