Not my usual stomping ground (more of a Pennines man myself) but I've been following a few reports about this with interest. The stride length variations are what get me - most large animals keep a pretty consistent gait pattern, so when you see tracks that shift between what looks like a biped and something else entirely, that's harder to explain away.
Anyone got actual plaster casts or decent photos? The stuff circulating on social media is mostly blurry nonsense. Would love to see proper measurements alongside something for scale, not just a boot or a hand which tells you nothing useful.
Also curious whether the sightings are clustering around particular elevations or terrain types. That kind of data actually means something. Pattern recognition is where this stuff either gets interesting or falls apart completely.