In the winter of 1846, 87 pioneers became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where starvation forced impossible choices and tested the limits of human survival.
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What Really Happened to the Donner Party: The Horror And The Hauntings
In 1846, 87 pioneers took what they thought was a shortcut to California—but a series of fatal decisions, impossible terrain, and early snowstorms trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where starvation drove survivors to unspeakable acts, and some say the tortured spirits of those who perished still haunt Donner Pass to this very day.