Not my usual territory - I'm more SHC and dimensional bleed than cryptid patrol - but I did fall down a rabbit hole on this a few months back after someone posted a cluster map on Reddit showing a pretty concentrated spread along the Michigan shoreline between 2021 and 2023.
What I found interesting wasn't the sightings themselves but the consistency of the witness descriptions. Upright, canine, 7-8 feet, and almost always described as moving with what witnesses call "wrong" movement, like the joints don't articulate the way they should. That detail keeps cropping up independently which is hard to dismiss.
My thinking is these could be interdimensional rather than a conventional undiscovered species. The Great Lakes sit on some genuinely unusual geological fault activity and theres documented cases of localized EM anomalies in the region. Worth considering whether we're looking at something bleeding through rather than something that lives there permanently.
Anyone got first hand accounts from the area? Particularly interested if any witnesses reported missing time or equipment interference alongside the visual.