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

Been keeping an eye on this for a while actually. The clustering of reports around Lake Michigan specifically is hard to ignore, and what strikes me is how consistent the witness descriptions are even when the people involved have no prior knowledge of each other - same rough height estimate, same description of the gait, that sort of thing.

I'm not a full believer by any means but I do think there's something worth mapping properly here. Has anyone done a proper GIS overlay of sighting reports against forested corridors near the shoreline? Because if these things are real animals they'd need movement routes and the lake region has plenty of intact woodland connecting across state lines.

What I'd want to know is whether the uptick is genuine new activity or just increased reporting because of podcast coverage making people more aware. That's the question nobody seems to want to sit with honestly. Anyone here actually local to the region who can speak to this from firsthand experience rather than secondhand accounts?

Not really my patch being over here in Warwickshire but I do follow the American reports pretty closely. The consistency thing is what gets me every time - you'd expect more variation if people were just making stuff up or misidentifying things. Like the bipedal movement descriptions keep coming up again and again from witnesses who have no contact with each other. Feels different to a lot of cryptid reports where the details drift all over the place.

Crop circles are my thing really but I do follow broader cryptid stuff as a side interest. What always gets me with the Lake Michigan cluster is that so many witnesses independently describe the same gait - that upright but somehow wrong movement. Biomechanics wise it doesn't match any known animal and it doesn't match a person in a costume either, the stride length reports are all over the place but consistently too long. @Nobby72 you're right about the consistency being the key factor here. I've looked at probably 40+ reports from the 2018-2022 period and the ear shape alone comes up in descriptions from witnesses who clearly hadn't been reading each other's accounts. That's the bit I can't explain away.