Been following this closely for a few months now. The clustering around the Michigan shoreline is what gets me - you don't usually see that kind of geographic concentration unless something is genuinely driving the reports. Similar pattern to what we saw with the Pendle area big cat sightings a few years back, where suddenly a whole corridor lit up with encounters.
What I find technically interesting is how many of the recent accounts describe the same gait. That loping, upright-but-not-quite movement. Witnesses who clearly haven't read each other's reports are landing on almost identical descriptions. That's harder to dismiss than a one-off.
Anyone cross-referencing these against livestock disturbance reports in the same counties? That's usually where you find corroborating data that doesn't get filtered through the "I think I saw something" uncertainty. Would be worth mapping the sightings against the shoreline habitats too, the wetland corridors especially.
Has anyone here actually been out to the area? Would be keen to know if local researchers are treating this as a single phenomenon or multiple unrelated incidents.