Family's daylight encounter near Inman witnessed in Spartanburg County, South Carolina

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I live in a small town in Inman. Im 1993 my son and i had a terrifying experience. We live in a wooded area. We were on our deck trying out a new telescope we had just bought that day. It was a bright moon lit night. My small dog was walking out at the edge of the woods near a patch of blackberry bushes. She ept barking for two hours at something, so I got concerned and walked out there to see what she was barking at. When i got over there and to a look there was this large hairy animal croouched down in the gully. Which i thought was a large chow dog. So i stomped my foot and yelled at it to go away! when i did it stood up like a human on two feet it had light gray hair and 6ft tall it had large gorilla shoulders and no neck. a flat face it took a long time for it to turn around in slow motion then it started running into the woods knocking down trees. making a loud noise then westarted running too so fast i could not feel the ground it seemed. my son is 6`4 in height and...