Arent Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman some kind of tabloid joke?
Now they are, but when their tracks were first taken seriously in the early 1950’s, they were studied in great detail by several highly qualified researchers, with Ivan Sanderson the foremost among that group. Unfortunately, after a decade or so it became obvious that scientists couldnt explain what hominoids were or where they fit into the scheme of higher primate life on Earth. Thus, they shunted discussion of hominoids into tabloids to spare themselves the continued embarrassment of having to confess their inability to explain the phenomenon.