History Main / BigfootSasquatchAndYeti

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': A tribe of hostile yetis capable of speech appears in Volume 9 in service of the Ice Witch.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': When a scene from ''Monsters Inc.'' is redone for the closing credits of this film, the Abominable Snowman is reimagined as a snowplow rather than a monster truck.

* Bigfoot and the Yeti aren't the only ape-men. Dozens of other species of Sasquatch-like creatures have been reported in nearly every part of the globe, including the Neanderthal-like Almas of Mongolia, the mysterious Kala Bandar of New Delhi in India, the diminutive Orang Pendek of Sumatra, [[YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy the Australian Yowie,]] the gigantic Orang Mawas of Malaysia, the Japanese Hibagon, and an [[UncannyValley eerie-looking]] monkey-like biped shot in South America known simply as De Loy's Ape.

Common characteristics are said to include an extreme [[BigHeartedBigfoot shyness and lack of aggression towards humans]] (though reports and accounts of [[KillerGorilla extraordinarily hostile encounters]] do exist), emitting horrible odours and unearthly noises, and of course scattering large footprints about as they [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} frolic in out-of-focus areas]]. Most scientific authorities regard these creatures as either [[UrbanLegends entirely imaginary]] or the fabrications of human pranksters, but like [[StockNessMonster lake monsters]] and the {{Chupacabra}} and ''unlike'' explicitly legendary creatures such as the {{Wendigo}} or TheJerseyDevil (and also unlike tongue-in-cheek folktales in the vein of {{fearsome critters|OfAmericanFolklore}} and [[YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy drop bears]]), BS&Y have devout believers in their existence. Often speculated to be akin to large, herbivorous hominids such as ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot#Gigantopithecus Gigantopithecus]]'', or hominins even more closely related to ''us'', such as Neanderthals and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranthropus Paranthropus]]''. More information on Bigfoot can be found at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot Other Wiki]].

* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'': The Ape Men have this vibe - being hairy, hulking ape-like humanoids who are first encountered in a cold, boreal environment. They're on the smarter end of the spectrum than most examples - being able to cure meat, having a language and an understanding of battle tactics.

* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'': In the woolly mammoth mission, a tribe of FrazettaMan encountered by Jack and Nikolai heavily resemble typical depictions of cryptids like Bigfoot and the Yeti (with the latter being a being that Jack ends up referring to one of them as when he mentions them in a later chapter).

* ''Literature/ManAfterMan'': One of the engineered future hominid species, the tundra dwellers created to replace extinct mammoths and musk oxen, are large, white furred being who resemble yetis. Some of their descendants evolve into bigfoot-like variations adapted for life in temperate forests.

* Tracks of supposed sasquatch are often found, which are sometimes revealed to be the work of pranksters when proper investigation is done, although some of them have been found to be ''possibly'' real.
** The most famous Sasquatch video evidence is the "Patterson-Gimlin Film", which indisputably depicts either a Sasquatch or a man in a hairy suit. The footage as of 2010 still hasn't been proven or disproved on its own merits. The key to whether the figure matches a human's gait (and thus is probably a man in a costume) is what speed the camera was set at. If it was filmed at 24 frames per second, it was almost certainly a hoax. If it was filmed at 16 or 18 frames per second, the gait of the "bigfoot" would be very difficult for a human to achieve. Inconveniently (or perhaps conveniently) Patterson claimed not to remember which setting he'd used that day.
** Starting in the early 2000s, a man named Phillip Morris came out as saying he was involved in the creation of a gorilla suit and communicating with Patterson as to how to broaden the shoulders and extend the length of the arms. Bob Heironimus, who can be seen in the second part of the reel accompanying the documentarians, would later claim that he was paid $1000 to wear such a suit and that he was the creature in the film. The involvement of Ray Wallace, the well known Bigfoot hoaxist, has also been corroborated by his family after his death. In addition, an investigation into Patterson's background reveals that, shortly before the trip on which he filmed the footage, he had raised money to shoot a (fictional) film about Bigfoot. [[ContrivedCoincidence How convenient]] that he saw Bigfoot while on a trip to shoot a movie about Bigfoot. There are some inconsistencies among the story of the video in itself and the people who since confessed to being in on it. But in truth even if we weren't talking about a possibly mythic beast, lots of these men are an UnreliableNarrator on reputation alone. [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film has more info]]. On the flip side, the entity in the footage is allegedly a ''female'' Sasquatch, and if you examine it closely, you can see that she is anatomically correct, at least from the waist up. Such a level of dedication seems quite strange for a mere hoax. [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow Unless the hoaxers considered that]]. Lastly, Patterson had previously published drawings of female Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) showing the same "breasts" [[ContrivedCoincidence as the one he caught on film]].

** Yeti have appeared as monsters in most editions of the game. They're typically portrayed as being savage carnivores that attack any other creature they deem prey (which is any other creature) on sight; most editions portray them as Neutral or Unaligned, the default alignments of beasts without the intelligence necessary for true good or evil, but in 5th Edition they're fully ChaoticEvil. Physically, they resemble big, white-furred apes with a pair of curling horns, and mostly inhabit high, cold mountains. There are also abominable yetis, a larger and stronger variant found in isolated areas.

!!Examples:

* A previous series of commercials for Pop-Tarts featured a yeti explaining how placing Pop-Tarts in the freezer made for a good summertime snack. [[ReactiveContinuousScream Then the humans he was talking to would scream in fright, and then he would do the same]]. Example [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zE0E7kZhuI here]].

* One of the campers in the label of the Advertising/BonesCoffee "[[https://www.bonescoffee.com/products/smorey-time-by-bones-coffee-company S'morey Time]]" flavor is bigfoot partaking in smores.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' has a scene where the banished heroes meet their fellow exile, now known as the Abominable Snowman in Nepal. There's an offhand reference to Bigfoot, who was supposedly friends with the Yeti in the past, and was also banished (basically implying that [[AllMythsAreTrue every monster myth originated from the monster dimension]]). [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] is mentioned as being an exiled monster as well. [[spoiler: The spinoff series ''WesternAnimation/MonstersAtWork'' eventually reveals the Abominable Snowman was exiled for the same reason as Mike and Sulley -- [[HeKnowsTooMuch he inadvertently found evidence of Mr. Waternoose being involved with the creation of the Scream Extractor]]. After this is revealed, he's allowed to return to Monstropolis.]]

* ''Film/PrimalRage'' features the Oh-Mah, an ape-like creature that dwells in the forests of northern California and Oregon, and is said to be the inspiration for the Bigfoot legend. Unusually, it uses Stone Age-type tools, including axes, knives, arrows, and armor made of tree bark. The one seen in the film is extremely violent, sadistic, and hostile, and even [[MarsNeedsWomen lusts after the female lead]], although it's implied that this Oh-Mah is only like this because it spent its life watching human society. [[spoiler: Given [[CruelTwistEnding how the film ends]], though, the others might be similarly nasty, or at least aggressively isolationist.]]

*** ''Literature/PeaceTalks'' reveals that "Genoskwa" is the name for a divergent, militaristic sect of the Forest People, who [[FantasticRacism view themselves as superior to humans]] and want to dominate them; ''the'' Genoskwa, real name Blood on his Soul, does ''not'' like being compared to "flower-chewing groundhog-lovers" like the more mainstream Forest People. For a famous example of this path, see Grendel, who is described by WordOfGod as being the Bigfoot equivalent of Kemmler, a {{Necromancer}} regarded as ''the'' EvilSorcerer (engineered WWI, came back from the dead six times, and nearly became a PhysicalGod). Certainly, he spawned an AlwaysChaoticEvil offshoot of the Forest People called the Grendelkin, who can only reproduce by raping a human woman with the resultant offspring emerging {{Chestburster}} style, and it took Beowulf a.k.a. [[spoiler: Odin]] to kill him.

* The Icemen of the ''Literature/CodexAlera'' are not Yetis, but are largely analogous to them, being furry, bulky, apelike humanoids who live in the far north and all. They're not normally aggressive, but they ''are'' powerfully empathic, picking up on humans' initial wariness of them and transmitting it back magnified ended up resulting in centuries of literally meaningless war between the two races [[spoiler: until Isana, herself TheEmpath, managed to get things ironed out]].

* One of the stories in ''The Dark Thirty: [[DeepSouth Southern]] Tales of the Supernatural'', called "Boo Mama," features the Sasquatch species, who call themselves the Gen. [[spoiler: They save the protagonist's critically injured son, but [[EmergencyTransformation are forced to give him some of their blood in doing so, resulting in him slowly becoming a Gen]]. The ending implies that the protagonist has agreed to become one of them as well, or at least to leave civilization and join them with her son.]]

** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', [[spoiler: Bigfoot finally appears for real. In one mission, as an Easter egg, he can briefly be glimpsed through a heat-detecting scope mounted on a sniper rifle. And, after the end of the storyline portion of the game, if the player achieves 100% completion, a special mission is unlocked in which a character pursues Bigfoot... who ultimately proves to be a method actor furry in a suit]].

* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'' has its own take on the Yeti legend: they're actually residents of Shambhala dressed in giant fur suits to scare off anyone daring enough to search for the hidden valley in the first place. The reason it's effective is because [[spoiler: drinking the sap from the Tree of Life]] has made them superhumanly fast and strong, as well as giving them a HealingFactor that makes them ImmuneToBullets the first couple of times you meet them.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' has a scene where the banished heroes meet their fellow exile, now known as the Abominable Snowman in Nepal. There's an offhand reference to Bigfoot, who was supposedly friends with the Yeti in the past, and was also banished (basically implying that [[AllMythsAreTrue every monster myth originated from the monster dimension]]). [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] is mentioned as being an exiled monster as well. [[spoiler: The spinoff series ''WesternAnimation/MonstersAtWork'' eventually reveals the Abominable Snowman was exiled for the same reason as Mike and Sulley -- he inadvertently found evidence of Mr. Waternoose being involved with the creation of the Scream Extractor. After this is revealed, he's allowed to return to Monstropolis.]]

* ''Fanfic/{{Ripples}}': In ''Stirred'', when Yan Lin is first explaining the girls' Guardian powers and the nature of TheMultiverse to them, she mentions that "Bigfoot" is actually an entire species of creatures who occasionally drift to Earth through portals. They're all apparently very nice people.

* When the above scene is redone for the closing credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', the Abominable Snowman is reimagined as a snowplow rather than a monster truck.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' has a scene where the banished heroes meet their fellow exile, now known as the Abominable Snowman in Nepal. There's an offhand reference to Bigfoot, who was supposedly friends with the Yeti in the past, and was also banished (basically implying that [[AllMythsAreTrue every monster myth originated from the monster dimension]]). [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] is mentioned as being an exiled monster as well.

** Wampas, native to the ice world of Hoth, are aggressive animalistic predators resembling horned yetis.

* The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series had "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena", which lived in Alaska and can freeze itself in a block of ice. It was actually rather gentle for a yeti, behaving more like Bigfoot.

** One of the monsters faced in ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' is Zee the Yeti who looks like a yeti wearing a hockey outfit. He is so powerful that the Magirangers had to unlock their SuperMode to defeat him. ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' used this monster as well, naming it 50-below.

* ''Literature/{{Devolution}}'': After the eruption of Mt Rainier, Sasquatches are displaced and come across a rural settlement called Greenpool, and they immediately start to kill.

** Another yeti-like Pokémon, Crabominable, debuts in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''. It's a yeti/crab hybrid, being a literal take on a "yeti crab" (a species of deep sea crab that has hair-like growths on its limbs). It evolves when the normally just crab-like Crabrawler is leveled up while on Alola's highest mountain.

* ''Film/{{Caveman}}'': A tribe of yeti appear as an obstacle in the "Ice Age next over".

* ''Film/TheLegendOfBoggyCreek'' is a documentary-style film which shows various dramatized events of people meeting a bigfoot-like Fouke Monster in Arkansas. Opinions vary on how true it is, but ''something'' attacked the Ford family’s house and scared them so badly that they packed up and abandoned the place a few days later.%%The sequel, ''Film/BoggyCreek2AndTheLegendContinues'', abandons the documentary format for a more standard BMovie.
* ''Film/LettersFromTheBigMan'' stars Creator/LilyRabe as a reckless Forest Service worker who strikes up a friendship with a Sasquatch while surveying [[SceneryPorn the serene wilderness of southwest Oregon]]. [[NotUsingTheZWord The Big Man]]'s costume is one of the finest ever filmed, and has to be seen to be believed.
* ''Film/LittleBigfoot'' is a 1997 direct-to-video family film about a boy and his sister trying to protect a baby sasquatch after its home is invaded by a loggind company intent on cutting down the trees. It was followed by a sequel the same year.

* ''Film/TurkeyHollow'': Tim and Annie try to make quick money by finding a creature very similar to bigfoot, but the monsters turn out to be very small.
* ''Film/UncleBoonmeeWhoCanRecallHisPastLives'': The "monkey ghost", which lopes around the forest Bigfoot-style. It may represent the spirits of the dead, as shown by the scene near the end where several pairs of staring red eyes show up in the forest after Boonmee dies. Boonmee's son Boonsong became one isn't really explained, although it may be that he got lost in the forest and died. In any case, he shows up at a dinner many years later in classic ape-man costume.

%%* ''Film/YetiCurseOfTheSnowDemon'' is basically ''Film/{{Alive}}'' with Yetis, an American football team instead of a Uruguayan rugby team, and on the Syfy network.
* ''Dawn of the Beast'': A cryptozoology class goes out looking for a bigfoot in a remote forest. The Sasquatch is heavily implied to be a GuardianEntity. It attacks several people and drags them off, but only to get them away from the {{Wendigo}}. In the finale, it returns to fend off a horde of possessed ghouls and force the wendigo spirit back.

** In ''Literature/CavernsOfTheSnowWitch'', the quest is kicked off when you volunteered for a mission hunting down a savage Yeti that is terrorizing a trading outpost and killing innocent merchants and travelers. You managed to find and kill said Yeti and rescue it's last victim, a hunter; but then the hunter reveals the secrets of the Snow Witch before succumbing to his injuries leading to you deciding to go after the Witch instead.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1000 SCP-1000]] of the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is Bigfoot, though the species is presented a bit differently from how it normally is. The document describes them as nocturnal, omnivorous apes with a genetic disease that increases the chances of spontaneous brain failure in other ''Hominid'' species the longer they observe them. [[spoiler: But that's just BlatantLies for the general staff. In actuality, they were once the dominant species on the planet and much more technologically advanced than we are even now, until humanity, with the guidance of [[TricksterGod a Fae]], massacred most of them and destroyed their OrganicTechnology, but not before using one of their devices against them to lower their intelligence to that of beasts. But they are starting to get it back, and they're pissed.]]