Daniel Boone's cryptid?

First of all, I wanna say I don’t consider myself to be gullible. As a believer in the paranormal, I don’t believe every claim I hear, only the ones I consider to be credible. I think believing in the paranormal is more about believing in the POSSIBILITY of the paranormal than anything. Like I said I believe in CREDIBLE claims by credible people and not a lot of people are more credible than Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone needs no introduction. I’ve read several things over the past couple of years about Daniel Boone’s claim of seeing and killing a ten-foot tall, hairy man like creature that he called a “yahoo”. He borrowed the name from a book called Gulliver’s Travels that he was a fan of. All sources I’ve read point to a 1992 biography of Daniel Boone’s written by John Mack Faragher in which Faragher says Boone used to tell these tales, especially in his later years. The place where this was said to happen is now called Yahoo Falls, Kentucky. It’s clear that what Boone referred to as a yahoo was what nowadays we would call a bigfoot. The tale of bigfoot is obviously nothing new. I think it’s really cool that this story is from as early as the the 19th century. Usually, people think of bigfoot as being a relatively new thing, no older than the 1950’s or so. And the fact that Daniel Boone said this adds credibility to the whole thing. It makes sense that if something like this were to exist, that Boone would’ve encountered it, seeing as how he spent a good portion of his life in the Appalachian wilderness. What do you think? Did Boone really see and kill a yahoo aka bigfoot?

Yahoo Falls, Kentucky- Photo sourced from nps.gov