One was in the late 1880s and called "Jacko". He was captured alive and paraded around circuses. Not much to go on there. But the second was "the Minnesota Iceman" in the 1960s. He was examined by two experts, Sanderson and Heuvelmann, and declared to be legit.

I spent summers in a remote cabin in the woods. Sure, I suppose someone could hoax all of the footprints and hand prints I found, but first of all they'd have to find it. Second... why? Who would go through all of that trouble? Who would come knocking on my cabin walls at 10:30 at night? Who is going out in the forest at midnight to whoop and howl?

And then there are the tree bends and tree structures that cannot be done by a man, or several men. This photo is a double tree bend pinned down by a third sapling from the left broken off ten feet above the ground. It was in the middle of the woods, off any trails, so it would make no sense to hoax it.

I appreciate what you're saying, having been there myself. But once you get into it, the evidence is too overwhelming. Particularly when you start communicating with it using glyphs. That blew me away.