Luna in Occultation

You know that creepy feeling you get when you can sense that someone is there, but you can't actually see them? It was just after 10:00 pm, and I was on my way home from Skippy and Andrea's place where we had just watched an episode of X-Files, a weekly ritual for us. Luna was in occultation that night, therefore it was darker than usual, and I couldn't even see the black asphalt road beneath me. There was a shortcut I planned to take which would enable me traverse through the woods and avoid walking up my steep driveway. The cutoff point was at the head of Mary Holmes' driveway, where I would walk on her gravel drive, winding my way up the hillside until I got to the trail which led through the trees. I had walked it a hundred times, so was confident that it wouldn't be a problem navigating the trail in the dark. Besides I have great night vision, and even if I couldn't see the road beneath my feet... and I had a flashlight that I could use if it became too difficult. As I turned left, and stepped off of Happy Valley Road onto Mary Holmes gravel driveway, every hair on my body suddenly stood on end, and I sensed that I had just walked right past someone standing quietly on the side of the road in the darkness. I had chosen not to use the flashlight up to that point, because I actually enjoyed the challenge of walking in the darkness of the night, and relying on my other senses. I took another ten steps beyond the spot where I felt that someone was standing, silently counting each one to myself, then quickly turned around and switched the flashlight to the on position, pointing in the direction where I suspected someone to be standing, revealing a surprised medium- sized Coyote on the side of the road within two feet of where I had just walked. The scruffily-furred creature, startled by the sudden burst of light, scurried away and ran up the hillside. Adrenalin surged through my body as I ascended the hill, and then climbed one hundred stairs that led to my house.
I wonder who was more surprised, the Coyote, or me.