A large hairy human like creature that is believed to live in North America. Whether the creature actually exists is unknown, but many eye witness accounts have been documented through the years.
Here is some of the history provided by Britannica:
“The British explorer David Thompson is sometimes credited with the first discovery (1811) of a set of Sasquatch footprints, and hundreds of alleged prints have been adduced since then. The Sasquatch legend grew in 1924, after five gold prospectors claimed to have had a violent encounter with “gorilla men” in a gorge (now called Ape Canyon) on Mount St. Helens, Washington. After the prospectors wounded one of the creatures during the day, the “mountain devils” returned that night, pelting the prospectors’ cabin with boulders and repeatedly ramming the structure. When the attack ended at daylight, the prospectors fled. Although their account was later discredited by U.S. forest rangers—who notably proved that the footprints were fake—the story spread. Subsequent sightings and even alleged photographs and filmings (notably by Roger Patterson at Bluff Creek, California, in 1967) have also contributed to the legend, though none of the purported evidence has been verified.“
Other names the legend carries are, Sasquatch, Yeti and the abominable snowman.
