A visual incident and a stalking & knocking incident, in two different parts of Monroe Range witnessed in Sevier County, Utah

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I have had a non-visual encounter and one visual encounter all within a couple miles of each other. The non-visual encounter involved being followed by a prominent knocking sound through a heavily wooded area. The knocks came from ground level and followed me and another man for some time. The other individual is a hunting guide and spends extended periods in the mountains. He had never experienced or heard anything like that before. The visual encounter occurred at the summit of a nearby mountain: Monroe Mountain. Me and my father-in-law were scouting elk when we came across a big mountain goat that we followed out of curiosity. When we lost him we turned around and I saw two figures maybe 300 yards away, a taller one a shorter one, walking in the opposite direction from us. They looked very dark brown or even black and my impression was they were not human. My father-in-law did not see them but I insisted we drive over to where I saw them. It was a rocky ledge that ended ...