{"podcast":{"title":"Mysteries and Histories","slug":"mysteries-and-histories-1576928","podcast_index_feed_id":1576928,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10f731918/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTMJwtvyuP7XMgpofJWH5g/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45441686/06037aa4e36546ef.png","author":"Georgia Marie","episode_count":302,"summary":"Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:18:28.244014+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928"},"episode":{"title":"The GRUESOME Tale Of The Donner Party: What Would You Do To Survive?","slug":"the-gruesome-tale-of-the-donner-party-what-would-you-do-to-survive","published_at":"2026-05-06T11:56:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/the-gruesome-tale-of-the-donner-party-what-would-you-do-to-survive","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/georgiamariexo/episodes/The-GRUESOME-Tale-Of-The-Donner-Party-What-Would-You-Do-To-Survive-e3ive8g","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO9352154733.mp3","summary":"A wagon train chasing the promise of a better life, a shortcut that became a death sentence, and a winter no one was ready for. The Donner Party set out for California in 1846 and ended up snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, trapped for months with dwindling food, rising panic, and an unthinkable choice: starve together, or survive by consuming the dead. By the time rescuers finally broke through the drifts, the trail they left behind was less a story of pioneers and more a gruesome legend of desperation, betrayal, and what humans are capable of when there is nothing left to eat.","meta_description":"A wagon train chasing the promise of a better life, a shortcut that became a death sentence, and a winter no one was ready for. The Donner Party set out f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2034,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/episodes/the-gruesome-tale-of-the-donner-party-what-would-you-do-to-survive/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/the-gruesome-tale-of-the-donner-party-what-would-you-do-to-survive.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}