When it comes to bigfoot researchers what you need to understand is that most of them are people that happened to see one somehow somewhere purely by chance, most of them have no woods smarts, no very little about nature and have no idea what they are doing.

The real reason that they go out looking for bigfoot and join up with other people is for two reasons, #1 they are trying to validate what they saw, but #2 is what keeps them going because they have found a support system of other like individuals that can relate to them, because unless you have seen one you have no idea what it will do to you.

For most people bigfoot research is a social club for strange people.