Honestly, without a physical specimen or DNA sample that indicated the cryptid (e.g., Bigfoot) was actually something new to science, I’d mark the observation as Human under the assumption it was faked. If it was in fact a new species unknown to science, iNat would not have the taxonomy in place (yet) to properly assign it to species.
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