Welcome back to Beyond the Mask, where host Melanie Peterson joins her passion for true crime with her love of all things horror. In this episode, Melanie dives into the doomed Donner Party that very loosely inspired the 1999 film Ravenous, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle.

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