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The ''other'' [[TheGreys UFO]]: Unidentifiable Furry Organisms.

Tall hairy humanoids who supposedly maintain a furtive existence in various remote corners of the world. "Bigfoot" and "Sasquatch" are different names for essentially the same entity, whose (ahem) [[IncrediblyLamePun stomping grounds]] are mostly in the [[TheOtherRainforest northwestern corner]] of the United States and the southwestern corner of Canada. The "Yeti" or "Abominable Snowman" is a variety found high in the [[ShamgriLa Himalaya Mountains]] — commonly depicted (whether due to associations with familiar Arctic animals like the polar bear, or just the "snowman" association) with white fur in fiction, although the local legends described it with red to brown hair. Other lesser known varieties turn up in world-wide folklore and history under an assortment of names, such as the "Skunk Ape" of the swamps of the ''[[DeepSouth southeastern]]'' United States.

Common characteristics are said to include a extreme [[GentleGiant shyness towards humans]], a tendency to emit both horrible odors and unearthly noises, a [[{{Phlegmings}} drooling mouth]], frolicing in out-of-focus areas, and the unsurprising habit of leaving large footprints all over the place. 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'' "out-and-out" fictional species such as the {{Wendigo}}, BS&Y have devout believers in their existence. More Real Life information can be found at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot Other Wiki]]. .

Despite it being 99.97% likely these creatures don't actually exist, depictions of them often turn up in popular culture...

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!!Examples:
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' the character of Pantyhose Tarou fell into the magic spring of the "Drowned Yeti, riding a bull and carrying a crane and an eel". It resulted in his transformation being a bull the size of a Yeti with an eel for a tail and crane wings.

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[[folder: Comics ]]

* ''TinTin In Tibet'' features a Yeti.
* MarvelComics ''Alpha Flight'' features a team member called Sasquatch, who is more-or-less the legendary beast.
** Originally, he was a scientist who got hit by gamma radiation, just like TheIncredibleHulk, but got orange fur instead of green skin. A [[DoingInTheScientist later retcon]] said he had inadvertently opened a gateway to the Realm of Great Beasts, giving him the power of a (fictional) First Nations demon.
*** And even more recently a small tribe of "actual" Saquatches (Sasquatchii?) have been discovered, with the largest male being mistaken for a mindwiped Sasquatch (the superhero) and actually joining the team for a short time (until his [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]).
** Marvel also has several forms of Abominable Snowmen, ranging from an offshoot of the Inhumans to people under a magical curse.
* ''Proof'' is a comic book series about a Bigfoot paranormal investigator that is very similar to {{Hellboy}}.
* In an issue of the Archie ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' series, a[[spoiler:n assumed-to-be-]]malevolent alien force is causing the famous legendary creatures of the world to vanish; among them are the yeti ''and'' the sasquatch.
* In an issue of ''WoodyWoodpecker'', Woody goes with his (niece and nephew?) over to Asia to film the abominable snowman. His camera is taken by a band of thieves using the legend of the snowman to scare people into giving them gift to appease them. [[spoiler:And then the real deal come along and scares the band away.]]
* In CarlBarks' Uncle Scrooge story "The Lost Crown of Ghengis Khan", Scrooge Mcduck has to recover the titular crown from the hoard of a treasure-loving abominable snowman.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* The Yeti is one of the ''7 Faces of Dr. Lao''; among his jobs are pounding in circus-tent pegs and playing a steam organ.
* A series of movies was made starring the swamp-dwelling southern version under the ''Boggy Creek'' title.
* ''HarryAndTheHendersons'' is about an American family who hits a Sasquatch with their car and brings him home. It was later a short-lived TV series.
* Several movies made for the SciFiChannel center around Sasquatches, usually turning the creature into a bloodthirsty killer.
* ''TheMummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' includes a sequence with Yetis.
* A really strange movie called ''They Call Him Sasquatch'' features a group of unlikely people going to hunt for the aforementioned lifeform. No, they do not parody the theme from ''{{Flipper}}''.
* In {{Tenacious D}}'s The Pick Of Destiny, Jables eats psychotropic mushrooms, and imagines he's Sasquatch's baby Sass.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* ''LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff'' features a Yeti who is the LastOfHisKind.
* In the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/{{Thief of Time}}'', our heroes encounter a yeti with the ability to press the ResetButton on its own death. It's a kind of [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]], with thick fur. Since trolls are made of rock, this is hinted to be the insulating material stone-wool.
** Yetis also appear in ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', where they lie down in the snow (camoflaged by their fur) and jump out at travellers. If the ones that encounter the thousand elephants making their way across the mountains have the ResetButton ability, it doesn't get mentioned. Maybe they were overwhelmed by the awesomeness of the scene.
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] encounter Yeti like creatures in ''Proven Gulity'' after stoming Arctis Tor.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* Bigfoot "guest starred" in more than one episode of the ''SixMillionDollarMan''.
** ''Bigfoot and Wildboy'' was a recurring segment in the 1970s children's program ''The Krofft Supershow'', and a SpinOff from the season it made friends with [[TheSixMillionDollarMan Steve Austin]].
*** Likely the inspiration for the VentureBrothers episode below.
* In ''DoctorWho'', the second Doctor has dealing with robots disguised as Yeti. (As well as, briefly, a real Yeti.)
* ''Eerie Indiana'': Marshall Teller often spots Bigfoot rooting around in his trash.
*''Harry And The Hendersons'' TV series mentioned above
* In perhaps the ultimate aversion of this trope, ''{{The X-Files}}'' -- a show which incorporated everything from human-alien hybrids to demonic possession to half-human half-tapeworms -- ''never once'' did an episode on Bigfoot.
** In the official licensed comic book, there was ''one'' Bigfoot story. I recall the infamous "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" episode did feature Mulder watching the Patterson footage of an alleged female sasquatch.
* In ''The Invisible Man'', the invisibility gland was taken from the Sasquatch who had developed it in order to hide in the forest of America. To be fair, the main character was pretty shocked at this revelation as well.
* In ''TheMightyBoosh'', there is a tribe of female yeti that live in the woods in England. IIRC, the episodes plotline was just a GenderReversed version of the original yeti myth.
* ''Here Come the Brides'' featured a Bigfoot hoaxer.
* Bigfoot and other north american fuzzy walkers appear in several episodes of LostTapes.
* "Big Guy" of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sanctuary Sanctuary]] is of the Bigfoot abnormal classification.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* See above. Tracks are often found, which are always revealed to be the work of pranksters when proper investigation is done.
* The most famous Sasquatch video evidence is the so-called "Patterson-Gimlin Film", which indisputably depicts either a Sasquatch or a man in a hairy suit.
* The old 1970s show ''In Search Of'' had an episode dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot.
* The ''WeeklyWorldNews'' was a supermarket tabloid which often ran Bigfoot stories.
* Fake videos of these guys are common fare on YouTube.

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* Sasquatches appear in the ''{{Shadowrun}}'' role-playing game, where they are peaceable and sentient beings capable of flawlessly imitating sounds.
* Some version of the ''DungeonsAndDragons'' Monster Manual include Yeti as potential encounters.
* ''{{Deadlands}}'' uses both Sasquatches ''and'' Skunk Apes. The former [[spoiler:are one of the few non-[[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] supernatural entities in the setting]], while the latter [[spoiler:are more malicious. This hasn't stopped one of them from developing a taste for cigars rolled from Cuban tobacco, though.]]

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[[folder: Theme Park ]]

* A Yeti appears to menace passengers in both ''Expedition Everest'' and the ''Matterhorn Bobsleds'' at [[DisneyThemeParks Animal Kingdom and Disneyland]] respectively.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''{{Darkstalkers}}'' features a Sasquatch.
**More like it features ''Sasquatch'', a Bigfoot that has attacks more like a Yeti.
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' has Umaro, a Yeti who can be used as a ''airship pilot''.
* Yetis can be found in ''{{Warcraft}}'' games, either in forested or snowy areas.
* The adventure game ''[[SamAndMax Sam & Max Hit the Road]]'' involves a search for a Sasquatch that had escaped from a traveling freak show.
* It is possible to play as Bigfoot in ''Tony Hawk's Underground 2''.
* Bigfoot turns up in an expansion pack for ''TheSims 2''
* One of the obstacles in ''KingsQuest V'' a Yeti which you have to [[spoiler: [[PieInTheFace hit in the face with a pie]]]].
** There's another one in ''KingsQuest III'' which you simply have to avoid.
* ''[=SkiFree=]'' is a Windows 3.1 game which at the higher skill levels inevitably ends with your skier being eaten by a Yeti.
* ''Spelunky'' features [[DemonicSpider a yeti which can chain-throw you to death easily]]. [[CrackPairing Someone made fanart pairing this yeti and the ''SkiFree'' yeti.]]
* A pair of peaceful Yeti are characters in ''The LegendOfZelda: Twilight Princess''.
* A yeti-like creature called Abomasnow makes an appearance in ''{{Pokemon}} Diamond and Pearl''. Actually, he's an animated Evergreen tree.
* ''MonsterRancher'' 2 had the Jill and its wild variety, the Bighand.
* Yeti show up as an enemy group in ''GuildWars Factions''.
* You can have keep Yeti and Bigfoot in your zoo in ''ZooTycoon''.
* Yetis appear in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', usually in snowy or mountainous areas (altho there's some living in the rather tropical Feralas too). They come in white-furred and more Bigfoot-like brown-furred variants.
* Biggafoot from ''[[{{Banjo-Kazooie}} Banjo-Tooie]]'', who has a single big foot.
* The first game in the ''BenJordanParanormalInvestigator'' series evolves around finding the Skunk Ape in the Everglades.
* A cyclopean Yeti is encountered multiple times in ''{{Overlord}} II'', usually smashing down obstacles in it's way. It normally won't attack the Overlad, unless he starts [[KickTheDog killing baby seals]]. Later on it's met in the Empire Arenas, where after smashing the place down the player is given the option of subduing it and keeping it caged up as a pet or killing it and making it into a rug.
* In ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Hockey]]'', there is a Yeti ''team''.

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* In ''Scandal Sheet'', the Comet tabloid has a Sasquatch employee.
* ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has a [[HiddenElfVillage hidden village]] of Bigfeet. Their leader's name is [[{{Mooks}} Mook.]]
* The Yeti of ''IrregularWebcomic'' are all "chap" and "old boy" and have that sort of stereotypical sensibility about them.
** They also [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out Cthulhu]]. ''Literally''.
*** Less punch out, more ''wrestling''.
* [[http://www.theprincessplanet.com/2005/06/01/bigfoot-3/ This strip]] of ''ThePrincessPlanet''.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* One episode of ''PhineasAndFerb'' has a bored Candace and her grandparents (and her grandmother's crazy twin sister who [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything lives in a closet]]) pretending to be Bigfoot to scare her brothers. It works. And then the monster is revealed to be Grandpa and all is good. ''OrIsIt?''
* Bigfoot appears in an episode of ''{{Futurama}}''; the episode ends with a parody/homage to the Patterson film mentioned above.
** Did we mention that said episode ("Spanish Fry") had the Omicron Persei VIII aliens Lrrr and Ndnd [[{{Squick}} getting off]] on said beast's existence and [[FetishFuel having mad, passionate sex]] ''right in front of him?''
* ''MonstersInc'' has a scene where the banished heroes meet their fellow exile, now known as the [[strike: Adorable]] [[strike: Agreeable]] Abominable Snowman in Nepal.
** There's offhand reference to bigfoot, who was supposedly friends with the Yeti in the past, and was also banished.
* ''JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "Monster in the Monastery". A group of Yeti threatening a small village turn out to be enemy agents in costumes. At the end of the episode all of the agents are found dead, killed by a real Yeti.
** The Real Adventures series had a twenty-or-so feet tall viking warrior yeti preserved alive in a glacier.
* The Abominable Snow Beast/Bumble from ''RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer''.
* In a Christmas episode of ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' Jake and his friends try to get a baby Sasquatch back to his family before various enemies find it first.
* Bigfoot shows up in ''AGoofyMovie''.
** An episode of ''GoofTroop'' has Goofy and Pete encountering an unusual depiction of Bigfoot which has antlers. Made more unusual by the fact that it's female.
* A Sasquatch is among the jury-members putting humanity on trial in an episode of ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers''.
* Classic LooneyTunes shorts would sometimes star the Abominable Snowman, a hulking furry giant who would "adopt" fuzzy animals like Bugs Bunny and literally smother them with adoration. He would always call his new pet "[[AndCallHimGeorge George]]." (This is a ShoutOut to the origin of the character: Lon Chaney Jr.'s portrayal of Lennie in ''Of Mice And Men''.)
* ''Roswell Conspiracies'' is a show which posits that most of the monsters of human myth are actually different species of aliens living in the hidden corners of the Earth. The Yeti are portrayed as one of the more benevolent groups. Their leader is named Tiyet.
* ''TheBackyardigans'' had two Yetis in different episodes: Pablo in the appropriatedly-named episode "The Yeti" (althought he looked more like himself wearing white winter gear) and Tyrone in "Fly Girl" (which looks more like a Yeti than Pablo did).
* ''TheAngryBeavers''' Daggett was taught in the art of stealth by "Big Butt". [[spoiler: He was really a big hairy Canadian]].
* ''TheSecretSaturdays''' Fiskerton is described as a "cat-gorilla", but he looks like pure Bigfoot.
* AquaTeenHungerForce has an episode where Master Shake moves in with Dirtfoot, basically Bigfoot with one big eye and one big foot.
* In ''VentureBros'' there is an episode where Brock goes camping, and meets [[TheSixMillionDollarMan the Bionic Man]] and his true love, Sasquatch. In a later episode he stays for a while at their house.
* ''XMenEvolution'' implies that Sabretooth impersonates Bigfoot from time to time. Hey, you're a seven-foot tall shaggy guy with teeth and claws, what else could you be?

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[[folder: Other ]]

* "Jack Links" beef jerky has an ongoing commercial campaign centered around various humans coming to grief after deliberately annoying a Sasquatch.
* The now-defunct Seattle Supersonics basketball team had a Sasquatch mascot. (Yes, a guy in a suit.)
* One of the better-known "monster trucks" is named Bigfoot.
* 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. Then the humans he was talking to would scream in fright, and then he would do the same. Example [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DA367-CmeE here]].
--> "Listen to the Yeti! Kellog's Pop-Tarts! You can freeze 'em, then eat 'em!"
* Comediam Mitch Hedberg {{lampshaded}} the fact that photographers always seem to end up having blurry photographs of Bigfoot.
--> "I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is ''blurry''... and that's extra scary to me. Because there's a large, out-of-focus monster... roaming the countryside."
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