And some say it is a hoax, although nobody has ever come up with evidence to prove it. Daegling said of the Patterson-Gimlin film the other day. And people were unable to find the kind of seams that would be on a suit. I don't know. He knows from Bigfoot.
Footprints are real.
Something real is there to make them. Second, you have thousands of people in North America who describe seeing a giant apelike creature that walks upright. And those people do exist. If you don't have an animal, these footprints must be of human manufacture and there must be a reason why. Either people all over the world have been faking big footprints and telling stories about hairy giants, or you have an unknown animal closely related to humans.