Not long after that, some of the group began to eat the flesh from Dolan's body. And early the next morning, for breakfast, the group stripped the muscles and organs from the bodies of Antonio, Dolan, and Graves. Of the 87 people of the Donner-Reed party who gambled on the shortcut, like I mentioned, 48 survived. 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.