Haven't really got the time to look any further but this comment caught my eye: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1469737/7119867

I'm from the area of where Ghost Ship was located. This type of art studio and people are common to the SF Bay Area. Art communities like these are loosely connected with the local Burning Man crowds and an industrial art school located in Oakland called the Crucible. As far as I know there was nothing nefarious going on here like human trafficking, parties like this are common for this venue. Now if some are saying that these people were witches and doing some type of blood ritual, that's not uncommon around here either. Anyone who cares to look into this please do but from what I can tell this is as how it's presented by the media, a tragedy.

https://www.thecrucible.org/about-the-crucible/

Crucible founder Michael Sturtz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sturtz

Michael Sturtz (born May 17, 1969 in Walnut Creek, CA) is a sculptor, designer, consultant, international speaker, innovator and facilitator of creative thinking. He is the founder of The Crucible, a nonprofit industrial arts school in Oakland, California, United States, and served as its Executive Director from 1999 to 2011.

Sturtz joined Stanford University's d.school in 2012, where he spearheaded a new artistic genre of live performance as director of the ReDesigning Theater Project. In 2014, Sturtz founded Stanford’s Creative Ignition Lab at Autodesk in San Francisco. This new lab explored the potential for visual, experiential, and embodied thinking to unlock the future of making and learning. While at Autodesk, Michael joined the Applied Research & Innovation team at Pier 9, where he helped innovate new ways to utilize machine learning within robotic welding.

In 2017 and 2018, Michael led the prototyping lab at Google X, where he led his own moonshot investigation and collaborated to pioneer the future of automated manufacturing.

During his tenure as The Crucible’s Executive Director, Sturtz developed a reputation for innovative projects. He produced and directed large-scale theatrical events and festivals which melded the classical and industrial arts, in The Crucible’s Fire Operas, Fire Ballets and Fire Arts Festivals http://michaelsturtz.com/performance/fire-operas-and-ballets/

“Hot Couture” at Oakland’s Crucible: Behind the scenes at the smoldering spectacle - https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/02/01/hot-couture-at-oaklands-crucible-behind-the-scenes-at-the-smoldering-spectacle/

“Hot Couture,” Feb. 16-19. It’s The Crucible’s annual industrial-arts/fire-arts/wearable-arts fashion show at its West Oakland warehouse, and nothing can hold a candle to it — probably because a candle would melt.

“It’s this intersection between tech and Burning Man culture and higher, more couture style,” says Lisa Jones, a Novato-based fashion designer who, with partner Ron Tomassini, returns to the show for a third year. “The platform they’re giving artists – it’s unique, and it’s the pinnacle showcase for technical high fashion.”

An interesting person who showed up on my trevails was fashion photographer Kenny Hoff who has a playlist of videos from the Ghost Ship on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvk2_CzSH1NjA_5dBvYs1U5rCMiU40jCq

Seems to be very much part of the whole Burning Man thing https://www.instagram.com/kennyhoff/?hl=en

Seems that the Ghost Ship could have been drawing quite an interesting crowd...