I used to hate “wildlife” explanations for cryptids like calling Mothman a Barred owl etc., because I truly couldn’t comprehend a person mistaking something like an owl for a red-eyed human sized monster, but I worked as a park naturalist for a year and this isn’t hyperbole or a joke. I absolutely get it now and based on public accounts of wildlife I had to take down I literaly actually could believe Bigfoot has been an opossum this entire time.