From someone whose principal entertainment is Bigfoot stories on YouTube:
Reports of Sasquatch encounters, visual and otherwise, are usually negative, though some of those cases are just humans’ fear. Most Squatches don’t want anything to do with humans, and for good reason. There is often reported a sudden feeling of mortal terror - this doesn’t indicate imminent danger, but is instead their mentally projecting fear unto humans to make them leave.
Some Squatches will “pace” people, from a distance, parallel, matching their footfalls, out of curiosity. They also “escort” humans, from such a distance, out of their domain. I have heard of Squatches that just stand in front of humans, raise an arm to point the opposite direction, and say, “Go!” Rock-throwing, tree-throwing, and screaming are not threatening behavior, but just their ways of saying, “Could you just kind of not be here?”
One story I heard from Florida was of a man lost in the woods, when a Skunk Ape appeared, then lifted his arm to point the way back to where the man had entered the woods, following behind him all the way to make sure he got out safely. The man turned to thank him, and the Skunk Ape replied, “We watch,” then turned and walked back into the woods.
I heard that the Squatches up north use the word “nawk” as “friend.” Many speak certain dialects of Native American tribes as their own language. Squatches have stolen human women to breed with, so apparently they are within our same genus. There have been Native Americans, living on reservations, who were known to be half-squatches.
Squatches and Native Americans had used to participate in sweat-lodge ceremonies together, where they would compete as to who could do the most paranormal stuff, like effect invisibility. Squatches also practice this stuff throughout their lives, learning to see through the eyes of other animals, read and speak thoughts, and pass through dimensional portals – enabling them to travel great distances in a short time (or just to use the portal potty?).