RE: Did I get charged by a bear?
if it was a bluff charge by a bear you probably would have heard some kind of sound from the bear expressing it's agitation like growling, teeth-popping etc. So I doubt that it was. Light confuses animals so it was probably something else that got confused by your light and was running in random directions. I've had all kinds of animals run toward me at night. They don't know what to do when you shine a light at them.