Has anyone else noticed more Dogman sightings happening near old railroad lines?

Not my usual area but this has caught my attention lately. Been looking at the reports coming in through a few different databases and yeah, there does seem to be a pattern along old disused lines, particularly in rural areas where the tracks cut through woodland.

My theory, for what its worth, is its less about the lines themselves and more about what they created - long corridors through dense forest that wildlife uses as natural pathways. Whatever dogman is, if it exists, it would use the same routes everything else does.

Anyone actually had a sighting near one? I'd want to know the specific line, time of year, that sort of detail before I got too excited about the correlation. Correlations are easy to find if you go looking for them.

@BrendaKing68 yes this pattern has been documented for a while actually. The old lines often follow natural corridors - river valleys, ridgelines, woodland edges - and those same geographical features are exactly what large predatory animals use as travel routes. Nothing spooky about that part of it. What makes it interesting is that the disused lines tend to have dense vegetation growing back along them now, so you've got cover plus a clear linear path. I've cross-referenced a few UK big cat reports with old railway cuttings up here in North Yorkshire and the same principle holds. Worth checking whether the sightings cluster near specific infrastructure like old tunnels or bridges, because those structures create sheltered denning spots that would attract prey animals first, and whatever's hunting them follows.