Right, so I'll admit Dogman isn't exactly my usual territory - I'm more your UFOs-over-the-North-Sea type - but this thread caught my eye because I've been walking the old Whitby to Scarborough trackbed for years and something has always felt off about certain stretches.
There's a section near Ravenscar where my dog (a fairly fearless Border Terrier, not easily spooked) absolutely refuses to go. Every time. Just plants himself and stares into the treeline. I've always put it down to foxes or deer, but reading through some of the American Dogman accounts, particularly the ones clustered around disused Michigan rail corridors, I'm starting to wonder if there's a genuine geographical pattern here worth mapping properly.
My working theory, for what it's worth: old rail lines follow the most geologically and topographically convenient routes through landscape. Low ground, river valleys, natural corridors. If something large and reclusive exists, it would use the exact same logic. The rails are gone but the path remains - cleared, relatively flat, connecting remote areas.
Has anyone actually plotted sighting coordinates against OS maps or rail heritage databases? Feels like the kind of correlation that would either fall apart immediately or become very interesting very quickly.
What are people actually seeing out there? Bipedal movement? Prints? Or purely auditory encounters?
