Well i used to go hog hunting on a frends uncle's land and his uncle just so happens to be known by the entire family as "the bigfoot uncle" because him and his best frend back in the 70's( i think it was the 70's i cant remember for sure) i digress
They are the ones that made bigfoot a household name and are responsible for the video sightings that we are all familiar with
He would talk for hours and hours about how they made the props and how they rigged them up and trick people and he still has the old body sute as nasty as that thing was it was pretty cool.
But anyway i say all of that to say that i try not to fall for media information because its 99% of the time manipulated to fit an agenda .