Not really my local area so I can't speak from personal experience but I have been following the Great Lakes reports for a while now and yeah, there does seem to be a genuine uptick in the last 18 months or so. The Michigan ones especially.
What I find interesting is how consistent the descriptions are across people who clearly haven't spoken to each other. That upright gait, the sheer size of it. That's not nothing.
Anyone got thoughts on whether its territorial behaviour that's pushing sightings closer to populated areas, or do you reckon its just that more people have cameras on them now and are actually bothering to report stuff? I go back and forth on that one. The Lake Erie cluster from last summer particularly caught my attention, would love to hear from anyone who was actually in that region.