The truth is nobody knows the truth of what happened during those four months of horror, nor the accurate numbers of the people that were eaten. But nevertheless, it remains a gruesome and howering tale of the journey that many Americans took in their quest to go west in search for the American dream on the Oregon Trail. And that brings us to my choice for the winner of the most interesting story of historical cannibalism. In the history book, this event is better known as the Nazino tragedy, which took place over 13 weeks during the summer of 1933 in the Soviet Union. It seems tragedy is not enough of a word to convey what happened in that dreadful summer on a small island on the Ob River in western Siberia, in the Soviet Union, now Russia. But over those three months, nearly half of the 4,556 men and 322 women perished, many of them becoming a steady protein diet for the survivors. Now unlike Alive and the Donner party examples, it would appear that the acts of cannibalism here on the tiny island of Nazino, nicknamed Cannibal Island or Death Island, were much more brutal and atrocious.