A little diversion from Cane Creek, Mormons still came to preach in Tennessee after the Cane Creek incident, an account of David Patten below on one of his visits to Tennessee. For those who hunted the backwoods for decades, Pattens story may have seemed strange even for the 1900's.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/412190/musings_on_sasquatch_in_mormon_folklore.html?cat=37
In 1938 Tennessee, high ranking church leader David W. Patten has a rather outrageous encounter with a creature; below is Elder Patten's well-documented experience, as originally recalled and narrated by Abraham O. Smoot:
"As I was riding along the road on my mule I suddenly noticed a very strange personage walking beside me.... His head was about even with my shoulders as I sat in my saddle. He wore no clothing, but was covered with hair. His skin was very dark. I asked him where he dwelt and he replied that he had no home, that he was a wanderer in the earth and traveled to and fro. He said he was a very miserable creature, that he had earnestly sought death during his sojourn upon the earth, but that he could not die, and his mission was to destroy the souls of men. About the time he expressed himself thus, I rebuked him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by virtue of the Holy Priesthood, and commanded him to go hence, and he immediately departed out of my sight..."
The account was originally published in a biography, titled The Life of David W. Patten by L.A. Wilson, then more famously recounted in Spencer W. Kimball's hardcore The Miracle of Foriveness. It was apparently Patten's understanding (it is unclear whether the creature was forthcoming with the identification information, or if it Patten's conjecture) that the creature was a descendant of the biblically cursed and marked Cain
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