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

Been following the Great Lakes reports for about three years now and yeah, the uptick is noticeable. What's interesting to me is the clustering - most of the recent sightings seem to be within a few miles of water, which matches older Ojibwe accounts of the Windigo-adjacent creature descriptions. Probably a coincidence. Probably.

I've cross-referenced about 30 reports from 2022 to now and theres a definite pattern emerging around the northern Michigan shoreline specifically. Not just quantity either, the descriptions are getting more consistent. Seven foot bipedal, canid head, broad shoulders, that odd loping gait witnesses keep mentioning.

What I want to know is whether anyone's done serious night audio work out there. EVP isn't really applicable for cryptids obviously but the principle is the same - you need to be out there at 2am with decent recording equipment not just waiting for someone to post on Reddit. If anyone's done fieldwork in that region in the last 18 months I'd genuinely like to compare notes.

Interesting thread but I'll be honest, Dogman isn't really my area - shadow people are more what I follow out here in West Virginia. That said I do find the clustering pattern you're describing genuinely compelling from a paranormal standpoint, because its something I've noticed with shadow person reports too, where sightings tend to bunch up geographically and temporally in ways that feel like more than coincidence. Makes me wonder if whatever conditions produce one type of encounter might be creating conditions for others. Do the Great Lakes sightings correlate with any specific terrain features near water or forested corridors? That kind of mapping data would help distinguish between a real uptick and just increased reporting, which is always the question with cryptid cases.