It's amazing to me that there are so many different names for roughly the cryptid seen all around the world. In North America, just some of the names for him is Sasquatch and Bigfoot, but check out this comprehensive list of names for the 8 foot hairy beast across the planet Earth:
Sasquatch~Suhsq'uhtch (NW US), Maricoxi (South America), Maeroero (Maori), Almas (Mongolian), Meshe-Adam (Azerbaijan~Russia), Agach-Kishi (Karachai~Russia), Tkiskasti/Shaitan (Georgia/Caucasia), Mazyl/Almasti (Kabardinia (North Caucasus~Russia), Yerin (China), Hibagon (Japan), Oh-mahs (California), OhOhmah (Yurok & Hoopa), tinta-k-iwungxoya'n~hair covered boss of the mountain (Hoopa), Sesx-ech (Coast Salish), Kushtakaa (SE Alaska), Gagiit (Prince of Wales Island, Haida), Ba'oosh or Ba'wis (Tsimshean), D'sonoqui (Kwakwaka'wakw), Sne nah (Okanogan), Rugaru (Turtle Mt Ojibway), Chiye tanka (Lakota (West)/Sioux), Neginla eh(Alutiiq/Yuko), Nantiinaq (Kenai Peninsula), Nant'ina (Dena'ina), Urayuli (SW Alaskan), Get'qun (Lake Lliamna), A hoo la huk (Yup'ik), Gilyuk (Nelchina Plateau), Lariyin (Hare), Tah tah kle' ah (Yakama/Shasta), Sasahevas (Salish), Xi'lgo(Nehalem/Tillamook), So'yoko (Hopi), Ot ne yar heh (Iroquois), Ge no sqwa(Iroquois/Seneca), Miitiipi (Kawaiisu), Yahyahaas (Modoc), Tso apittse (Shoshone), Toylona(Taos), Atahsaia (Zuni), Yé'iitsoh (Dine'), El-Ish-kas (Makah), Sc'wen'ey'ti (Spokane), Skanicum (Colville), Choanito (Wenatchee), Ste ye mah (Yakama), Yeti (Tibetan), Seatco (Yakama/Klickitat/Puyallup), Seat ka (Yakama), See'atco (Coast Salish), Tsiatko (Puyallup/Nisqually), Steta'l (Puyallup/Nisqually), Abominable Snowman, Bukw's, Boq's, Pukw's (Bella Coola), Pkw's (Bella Bella), Mai-a-tlatl (Comox), Matlox (Nootka), Yi'dyi'ta(Nehalem/Tillamook), Sesq'ec~male, Qelqelitl~female (Musqueam), C'amek'wes (Lummi), C'iatqo (Twana), Skunk Ape (SE US), Yowi(Australia), Almas(Asia), Barmanus (NW Pakistan), Kakundakári (Africa), Gugu(Sumatra), Gin-sung(Asia), Mo Mo (Missouri), Wookie (Louisiana), Grassman (Ohio), Toké-Mussi (Oregon), Arulataq (Alaska), Nuk-luk, Nakani (North West Territories), Nguoi rung (Asia), Nuk-Luk (North America, Nyalmo (Asia), Orang-Pendek (Oceania), Tano Giant (Africa). Teh-Ima (Asia), Ucumar (Latin America), Yeren (Asia), Ye-Ti/Metch-Kangmi (Himalayas).
They are real and they have a name.