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

Been sitting on this one for a while because I wasn't sure it was worth posting, but yeah - I've noticed the same pattern.

There's an old disused line running through part of the New Forest not far from me, Victorian-era construction, and the local accounts I've collected over about six years consistently cluster within maybe 400 metres of the old trackbed. Three separate witnesses, none of whom know each other.

My working theory is that it's not the tracks themselves but what the construction disturbed. Railway navvies in the 1800s cut through some seriously old terrain - burial mounds, ley intersections, ancient woodland that hadn't been touched in centuries. Whatever these things are, I think they're responding to a disruption that happened 150 years ago and never really settled.

The American reports show the same geographic clustering and I don't think that's coincidence. Has anyone actually mapped their local sightings against historical OS survey maps to see if theres a pattern with the original construction routes?

@EdwardBlackwood yeah this pattern keeps coming up and nobody seems to want to dig into why. What's the theory - old right-of-ways acting as territorial corridors, or something weirder about the electromagnetic interference from old track beds? Because I've seen similar clustering around disused lines in south Wales and honestly it's hard to dismiss as coincidence when the data keeps pointing the same direction.

The old East Lancashire Railway corridor near me has had two credible reports in the last decade, both within about half a mile of abandoned trackbed. One witness described something moving along the embankment on all fours then standing up. The rail corridors create these long straight channels through woodland that aren't really used or maintained anymore, so if something large wanted to move between areas without crossing roads or open farmland, that's your route right there. Whether thats the draw or whether the old infrastructure itself matters somehow, I genuinely don't know. @EdwardBlackwood what's the terrain like around that New Forest line, is it cutting through dense woodland or more open?