Interesting thread. I dont follow cryptozoology as closely as some of you but this caught my eye because I collect haunted objects and a fair few of them have come from old railway workers, signal boxes, that sort of thing. Always wondered if there was something about those old lines that attracts weirdness in general, not just one type of phenomenon.
The railway angle makes me think about liminal spaces honestly. Corridors between places, not quite anywhere, lots of death and industry attached to them historically. Could that be relevant to why something like a Dogman would cluster there? Or is it just that railways cut through remote countryside where you'd expect large animal sightings anyway and people are reading a pattern into it.
Has anyone actually mapped this out properly or is it more anecdotal at this stage? Genuinely curious whether theres any hard data behind it.
