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

Yeah this has been on my radar for a while now. The clustering around the Great Lakes is weird, like theres definitely something to the geography there - dense forests, massive amounts of freshwater, relatively low human population in certain pockets. Perfect conditions for something to stay hidden.

I'm based in New Orleans so I'm not near that region but I follow the BFRO reports pretty closely and the uptick since like 2021 has been noticeable. Dogman cases specifically seem to correlate with areas near the UP in Michigan a lot.

What gets me is how consistent the descriptions are across witnesses who couldn't possibly know each other. Upright, canine, way too tall. That kind of consistency is hard to dismiss.

Anyone here actually done fieldwork up there? Curious whether the sightings are concentrated on the western or eastern shores more, cos I've seen reports from both but it feels like Michigan/Wisconsin gets mentioned more than the New York side.

@RhysPoltergeist the geography angle is something I've been thinking about for a while actually. Dense forest corridors running almost unbroken from the lakes up into Canada gives a large predator or unknown species a massive range to move through without much human contact. There's a researcher called Linda Godfrey who's mapped a lot of the Wisconsin sightings and when you plot them out you can see they cluster along specific river systems that feed into the lakes - which suggests the animal, whatever it is, is using waterways as travel routes rather than just wandering randomly. That kind of behaviour is consistent with known large predators. The freshwater angle might be less about the water itself and more about the prey density that large freshwater ecosystems support. Worth cross-referencing the sighting dates with deer migration patterns in those regions if anyone has the data.

Bit far from Essex for me to go investigate but I did drive through Michigan once on a trip to see family in Canada and I'll tell you what, I kept the windows up the whole time and not because of the cold. Something about those treelines at night when you're doing long stretches on your own. Could've been a Dogman, could've been that the trucking