What happened when I was ambushed. Apparently they just wanted to scare me.

It was November 11th 2010, at approximately 1515 hours, I was about seventy five yards west of Harstine Island Drive north and a few hundred yards north of Senset Hill Road. I had already set a new camera to the south of this location, about two hundred yards. I had not noticed anything unusual. There was a light rain falling and the woods were pretty wet. I did notice some impressions in the area that I found to be suspicious but nothing definitive.
I had approached the camera that is located in an alder bottom, a very wet area conducive for tracks. I noticed nothing of interest around the camera. I was going through the nearly twenty keys on my ring for the cable locks and had heard some small branches brake off to the northwest within one hundred yards of my location. I looked in that direction to see if there was a deer as that is what I would expect to see. I saw nothing and went back to trying to unlock the cable lock. I kept hearing a small branch brake now and then as I kept going through the keys but didn’t look up. I wasn’t sure that I wasn’t just hearing the rain. I then heard what sounded like a deer snort but not quite the same. I had heard deer snort numerous times in my life and this sounded just a little different but I still expected that it was a deer. This was a little closer but in the same direction probably within fifty yards. I looked up, scanned the area and saw nothing. At that time I found the right key, unlocked the cable lock and took it off of the camera. I got the camera open pushed the OK button and waited to see how many photo’s had been taken. At that time I heard movement closer but from the same direction. I started to feel a sense of concern and urgency at that time. I saw the card reading and turned the camera off removing the old card. I put in a new card and turned the camera on. I then heard a few more branches brake even closer probably within 30 yards. At that time I felt pretty intent in getting the camera activated and leaving the area so I didn’t look up. Then something happened that got my attention. I heard a kind of a very low tone grunt exhale from the same direction. I started to move my head up to look in the same direction and in the top of my field of vision, before I could get my head all the way up I saw a large dark figure which had been standing upright duck behind some evergreen huckleberry bushes, then the figure immediately appeared on all fours to the left of the bushes and shuffled in two movements to another bush a few feet over. It happened very quickly but it appeared to be squatted with its arms between its legs, (like a gorilla would be when all fours). The color was dark but it had lighter patches on it.
I immediately had a feeling of fight of flight and knew I needed to get out of there immediately. I also was thinking that I needed to activate the camera so I did and put the cover on. I started to run away without putting the cable lock on. I had gotten about fifteen feet away and looked back at the cable lock sitting next to the tree but something in me told me to keep running to the road so I did. I was feeling panic and very helpless wondering if I could make it to the road before this thing could catch me. I knew there was no way I could beat it and just ran as fast as I could directly to the road hoping it was not behind me.
I never was able to focus on it as I was raising my head up before it squatted down. I feel like it knew I was about to see it and it ducked as I was raising my head. It was kind of a blur as it shuffled laterally but I clearly could see it looked like a biped on all fours and not a quadruped. I could make out the shoulders and head slightly dipped between. It did not turn its back on me it was facing towards me the
whole time. I could not see any real detail other than the overall shape and it was dark colored with lighter patches. It just moved too fast.
One thing I can say is that I had a feeling that I have never had before. I felt that I was in imminent danger and completely helpless. I had an overwhelming feeling that I needed to leave that place immediately or I was going to die. I was not armed this day with a side arm and usually am. I can say that I didn’t even think about not having a gun and even if I did have one my only thought would have been to run.