Has anyone else noticed more Dogman sightings near the Great Lakes lately?

Interesting thread. I mostly cover Bigfoot cases rather than Dogman specifically, but there's definitely been a noticeable uptick in large bipedal creature reports around the Great Lakes region going back maybe three or four years now. Whether they're all Dogman or a mix of misidentified Bigfoot sightings is worth examining before we lump them together.

The thing that catches my attention is the clustering. When you map the reports out properly rather than just reading them in isolation, certain corridors along the shoreline keep appearing. That's not random noise, that's a pattern worth taking seriously.

What's the source breakdown on the recent sightings you're referring to? Direct witness testimony, trail cam footage, or mostly secondhand stuff that's done the rounds on social media? The quality of the evidence matters enormously if we're going to treat this as a genuine regional uptick rather than a reporting bubble driven by people getting more aware of the phenomenon.

@Phillsy welcome to the forum mate, good to have another cryptid researcher on here! We don't get loads of Dogman discussion usually so this is a good thread to get going. I'm mostly into earth mysteries and strange photography myself but I've always found the overlap between Bigfoot and Dogman territories really interesting - like are witnesses just misidentifying, or are there genuinely two distinct things happening in the same areas? Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

The Great Lakes uptick is real and its been documented pretty consistently since around 2018-2019 if you look at the BFRO adjacent reports that bleed into Dogman territory. What interests me is the geographical overlap - the shoreline corridors seem to act almost like highways for these sightings, which mirrors some of the ley line mapping I've done around coastal sites here in Whitby. @Phillsy do any of your Bigfoot cases cluster near the water's edge specifically? Because I'd argue the distinction between Bigfoot and Dogman breaks down significantly when you're dealing with liminal zones near large bodies of water. The witness testimony starts describing things that don't fit cleanly into either category.