@darrel_b
Here is my account as I remember.
Around 1970 – 71 summertime, I was around 8 years old, it was nighttime and my brothers (10 and 12) were going to walk to the little Egypt cemetery. Something they did often to scare themselves and friends that would meet them there. They had started walking up the hill in front of the camp and I ran inside to ask Mom if I could go with them. She gave me permission and I was excited as this was the first time I would get to go with them. I ran out of the camp and seen their flashlights at the top of the hill and started running to catch up with them. As I was running up the hill a hair covered arm reached out of the forest that lined the driveway. The motion was like a swipe of the arm going from up high to downward motion. I was running in excitement to catch up to my brothers, then seeing the arm I went into a baseball slide to avoid the arm and did a beeline back to the camp. It seemed the creature miscalculated my speed, so the arm actually swiped behind me as I reacted and changed directions. Very terrifying!