If you follow NL's link, the History section tells of people seeing bigfoots there so often 100 years ago that it wouldn't even necessarily merit mention when you greeted passersby. Sounds kinda like today that if I saw a deer I'd not proclaim that news to anyone but if someone started a conversation about them the news that I saw one might then come up. So . . . bigfootses in that community then were evidently as conspicuous as White-tailed Deer are across most of their range today, applying the word evidently as loosely as possible of course.
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