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

Been following the Great Lakes reports for a couple of years now and yeah, theres definitely a cluster building up around the Michigan shoreline in particular. What I find interesting is how consistent the descriptions are - the loping gait, the height, the way witnesses say it turns and looks at them before disappearing into treeline. That detail keeps coming up independently from people who clearly haven't spoken to each other.

I do a lot of EVP work myself so cryptids aren't really my main thing, but the sheer volume of corroborating accounts from that region has pulled me in. It reminds me of how BEK reports suddenly started clustering geographically before anyone had properly mapped them.

Anyone got a theory on why the Lakes specifically? Is it just the density of forested land running right up to populated areas, or is there something else going on? Would love to hear from anyone who's actually been out there doing fieldwork rather than just armchair researching like me.

Bit out of my usual area this one - poltergeists are more my thing - but I did come across a paper a few years back that mapped cryptid reports against limestone geology, and the Michigan shoreline sits on some fairly significant karst formations. Whether that means anything I genuinely couldn't tell you. What I would say is that clustering patterns like what you're describing are worth documenting properly before people start drawing conclusions, because once the YouTube crowd gets hold of it the original witness accounts tend to get buried under a lot of nonsense. How are you recording these reports @EssexMole, is there a standardised format you're using or just collecting them as they come in?