Here’s something on news prior to Mockingbird Media: The Donner Party pioneer story.

no surprise, but I think this major American history event was probably manipulated or faked.

And, I’m guessing newspapers were faking events all throughout the 1800’s.

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As you might already know, the Donner Party was a group of pioneers who traveled out West together in 1846 — two families and others, 87 people in total. They had a very bad journey, took an unblazed trail, and got stuck in the Sierra Nevadas during the harshest winter known at the time. Then, wait for it, they supposedly had to resort to cannibalism to survive. always cannibalism.

HOWEVER when researching it out of casual curiosity a while back, I found interesting info in some interviews, articles and books of the time that run contrary to the official story. For instance:

1 - there was documented testimony (in a private letter or something, wish I had my bookmarks) from a survivor saying (confessing?) they did NOT eat each other. This was stated in a few separate accounts after the rescue by at least two in the party, and there was even a hesitant mention of keeping secrecy and getting in trouble for speaking.

2 - the saga was being written about in the San Francisco and Sacramento newspapers, selling lots of copies. It was fervently followed like a drama and as each week passed, the Donner struggle was gaining more and more readers. It was a common conversation around town, a sensation.

3 - money was raised for the Donner rescue effort almost weekly as citizens learned of it and were horrified.

4 - Curiously, one of the Donner men who had traveled ahead (due to being kicked out of the group after a fight and banishment) made it to Sutter Fort in Sacramento and joined the military. He was the first to let everyone know of the pioneer's emergency. Somehow, he ended up leading the supposed rescue operations to find the Donner party.

5 - after the rescue, and years later, a journalist trying to contact one of the female survivors was ignored by her. She never gave an interview through the rest of her life. At the time of rescue she had been married off to a general or something and kept very silent on the whole thing. No one else spoke up either.

6 - now, it is a travel destination with a famous historical story.

These points raised my suspicion of the official story, and I concluded that the Donner Party event was probably heavily manipulated for news, like a reality show or something, and exploited for money.

However, NOW I am also thinking it was a False Flag … Was it pre-orchestrated?

1 - The Donner party took an unusual route promoted by a man named Hastings, an independent “trailblazer” with alternative routes. He used fear of attack by Natives to sell his route.

2 - Strangely, he disappeared mid-journey and before an important cutoff.

3 - A journalist (?) who happened to be traveling with a group ahead of Donner Party, left a letter at a stop warning them to avoid the cutoff at all cost, saying he thought it seemed too difficult. The trading post shop owner did not give them the letter, supposedly because the cutoff route benefitted his shop traffic.

Was it all a set-up?

Did these guys get paid to sabotage a group for the “story” and money raising?

We’ll never know. something to think about..