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

Not really my main area but this caught my eye. I've seen a couple of reports from up near Epping and the old GER lines that cut through the forest and they do seem to cluster around old trackbeds and cuttings. Makes you wonder if its the geography rather than the railway itself - like these routes were often cut through older woodland that hadn't been touched for a long time before the navvies went through.

Could also just be survivorship bias, people walking old railway paths are already in isolated wooded areas at dusk so of course thats where encounters happen. But the specific point about OLD lines is interesting, a lot of teh pre-Beeching routes have been completely reclaimed by nature now so basically function as wildlife corridors.

Anyone got a proper map overlay of UK sighting reports vs disused lines? Would be genuinely interesting to look at the data properly rather than just vibes.

Interesting one @Kingy63, not my area either (I'm more of a ghost and shadow people person) but I'm curious - do you think there's something about the electromagnetic fields along old railway infrastructure that might be attracting or even creating these sightings? I've read a bit about how EM fields can cause hallucinations and visual disturbances, and old rail lines have a lot of residual metal and sometimes old electrical cabling still in the ground. Could that explain the clustering? Would love to know if anyone has actually taken readings along these trackbeds.

Never looked into dogman stuff before but this is actually really interesting. Wonder if there's something about old railway corridors - they cut through land that doesn't really get disturbed much, so if something is out there it'd make sense it keeps to those routes. We've got old lines near me in Scotland and I might keep an eye out next time I'm doing a night walk.