Railroad lines, ley lines, chalk lines - everyone's got a theory and nobody's got a photo worth a damn.
I'll be honest, I'm deeply sceptical of Dogman as a category full stop - spent thirty-odd years documenting genuine poltergeist phenomena in Dorset and the surrounding counties, so I know what properly evidenced anomalous activity looks like, and most Dogman reports read like misidentified deer, wishful thinking, or someone who watched An American Werewolf in London one too many times as a teenager.
That said - and I'm gritting my teeth typing this - the railroad correlation is marginally more interesting than most Dogman theorising, purely because abandoned infrastructure does create genuine wildlife corridors. Large canids, escaped exotics, feral dogs - all plausible. The Fortean approach would at least demand we eliminate the mundane before invoking the cryptid.
What I'd actually want to see:
Specific locations (not ". Somewhere in Ohio"), Times and conditions (fog, low light, full moon nonsense aside), Multiple independent witnesses with no prior contact
Has anyone actually cross-referenced OS maps or historical railway surveys against the sighting clusters? Or are we still at the stage of drawing wiggly lines on Google Maps and calling it research?
Genuinely curious if anyone here has done the legwork properly - because if the geographic pattern is real, there might be something worth investigating. Just probably not what the Dogman crowd thinks it is.