Yes. I nearly got run over by an adult BF and the experience was frightening enough in the daytime, when I could see at least a few yards around me. At night I would not even know that I had those few yards. The best way to describe the experience of hearing the BF breaking brush and those big thudding footsteps headed right at me, was a scene right out the original Jurassic Park movie where the T -Rex was coming through the woods to get the tied up goat. At night I would have soiled myself for sure. We are nearly blind at night and by all reports BF can move fairly rapidly through the woods at near total darkness. Solo in the woods at night in my opinion you are truly a sitting duck. If you are stationary, giving the BF time to place each footstep, you may not even hear it move in. Moving to keep up with you on a trail, we have many witness reports of hearing them breaking brush in the wood line as they follow the human. . So at least move and not make it easy for them to remain undetected. Best case scenario they will simply let you leave. Worst case is forcing them to make noise to keep pace with you, but by doing that, you know where they are.
Cotter, we will probably never hear a peep out of these scoffers should existence be proven, or they will morph themselves and be telling us now they suspected it all along but had to wait for scientific proof.