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

Interesting one this. I don't follow Dogman cases as closely as some of you but I've definitely noticed a pattern when I've been going through old sighting reports - a lot of them seem to cluster along disused railway lines or near old station grounds.

There's a stretch of old track not far from me in Somerset and I've heard some genuinely odd stories from people walking it at dusk. Whether that connects to anything I honestly don't know.

My instinct is to ask whether its about the corridors themselves - like maybe the tracks follow old animal routes that predate the railways by centuries? Or is it something about the structures, the tunnels, the embankments?

Has anyone actually mapped sightings against historical railway routes? Feels like that could be revealing. Would love to know if anyone here has done that work or knows someone who has.

Yeah this lines up with the ley line research I've been doing out here in Nevada. Old railroad routes often follow the same natural corridors that ley lines run along - valleys, ridgelines, geological fault lines - and those same features seem to attract all kinds of anomalous activity not just Dogman. Its like the infrastructure got built where it did for a reason and whatever was already using those corridors just... kept using them. I've seen the same clustering pattern with Mothman reports near bridges and power lines, which also tend to follow those natural geographic paths. Would be worth overlaying a sighting map with both old rail routes AND known fault lines and see what pops up.

Not my usual area but this is genuinely intriguing. Do the clusters tend to be around disused lines specifically, or does it happen with active rail lines too? Because if its mostly abandoned tracks that opens up a whole different line of thinking - places that were once busy with human activity and energy and are now just... quiet and forgotten. That kind of transition from "used" to "abandoned" seems to come up a lot in liminal space research as well. Would love to see someone map the sighting reports properly against both active and disused routes to see if there's a real pattern there.