Yeah the clustering is real and its been bugging me for a while. The Great Lakes region has this weird geographic overlap with high strangeness hotspots - you get your Dogman reports, UFO flap zones, and missing persons clusters all stacking on top of each other in ways that dont look random.
My working theory, and I've been sitting with this one for a couple of years now, is that whatever these things are they're not purely biological. The distribution patterns look more like they follow ley line corridors or geomagnetic anomaly zones rather than prey migration routes or territory mapping, which is what you'd expect from a flesh and blood animal. The Lakes themselves sit on some genuinely unusual geology.
Anyone doing proper geo-mapping of the recent reports? I did something similar for Rendlesham and the surrounding Suffolk coast a few years back and the spatial clustering was striking once you plotted it properly. Would be worth doing the same treatment on the Lake Michigan corridor specifically. Has anyone cross-referenced the dates against solar activity or magnetic disturbance logs?