Camper has nighttime sighting outside of Bunker Hill witnessed in Macoupin County, Illinois

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I was visiting my cousin in Bunker Hill, Illinois I believe it was either 1994 or 1995, but I am 100% sure that it was the fourth of July due to the fireworks we had seen earlier that night. After the fire works we went back to my cousins place and met up with maybe 3-4 other people and we went behind her house to camp out in the woods for the night. It was probably around 12:00 or 1 am when we had started to set camp up. I needed to go to the bathroom so I grabbed a flashlight and walked down a trail. All of the the people in my party were at the camp site when I left. I probably got about 1 minute walking away from them when about 20 feet away a huge dark furred creature standing around 7 feet tall (maybe) crossed perpendicular to the trail I was walking on. It had very long strides, (arms the hanged down low) and stopped when it saw me, looked at me and continued walking. I stopped out of fear when I saw it, and I think I gasped for air thats what triggered the thing to look...