I don't know about Donner party. But I'm listening a lot of stories about wendigos, skinwalkers, big foot, ect. And very ofter people telling these stories are confusing one for the other, so had to actually google what is what. When reading about how the first wendigo was created, through cannibalism I was actually surprised that there isn't more wendigos, as people from all around the world results in eating other humans for whatever reasons. Even Hollywierd throwing spirit cooking parties 🤷