An account in Sanilac County, Michigan

The thing I saw did not look like the typical "big foot" creatures shown on films and photos. The thing I saw was a monkey type creature. It was hunched over. It's face appeared hairless, while the rest of the body was covered in longish light colored hair (whitish) with a darker tone on it's back. It stood hunched over approximately 5 feet tall. If it were to stand up perhaps another foot or two could be added to it's height. It had narrow shoulders like a human. It's arms were longer than humans. While hunched over, it's hands could almost reach the ground. The legs had haunches similar to a dog. I do not recall the way the feet looked or whether it had a tail or not. It's face looked like a monkeys, with wide eyes, two nostrils were visible, nose flat, it's mouth was like a slice - going straight across it's face. When it stepped out of the night and into our yard, our light post was bright and it squinted. When it squinted at the light, it's eyes and forehead became clear. The wrinkled expression of squinting it's eyes, creating folds and / or wrinkles that went all the way up it's forehead before the hair. That's when it became obvious that it's forehead was slanted back like a monkey and not like a human. The forehead had quite a slant and took up almost 1/2 of it's face, it seemed. As it walked, it walked primarily on it's back two legs, using also it's front right hand, which caused a sort of rolling gait to it's stride. It held it's left hand higher above the ground, as if it might be injured. (Perhaps from the sound of it's encounter with the dogs to the east of our house.) It no longer seemed in a hurry. It turned from the light and walked slowly down the driveway. I yelled to my dad who was downstairs, do you want to know what the dogs have been barking at? I ran downstairs finishing my sentence, telling him that it was walking in our yard. My father ran outside with a gun to shoot it, and could not locate it in the dark. I don't think the moon was out that night. My dad did have a flashlight though and our front yard is full of trees. As my dad was looking all over the ground, thinking it was small, I became scared and believed that the creature could have easily climbed a tree, for hiding. The leaves on all the trees would have given it a good cover.