December 19, 2022 - Of all the crazy stories from the ... Aug. 9, 1996 on the film’s set in Halifax, Nova Scotia when craft services provided clam chowder that happened to be spiked with the drug....

May 3, 2024 - According to Vulture, while busily ... James Cameron, along with a handful of actors and a crew of filmmakers, were unknowingly treated to a dose of PCP after their catering had been spiked with the notorious substance....

December 19, 2022 - The culprit behind the ‘Titanic’ PCP incident — in which chowder laced with angel dust was served to cast and crew members, including director James Cameron and Bill Paxton — remains a mystery.

April 19, 2024 - He was wrong. Instead, the chowder had been laced with phencyclidine, a hallucinogenic also known as PCP or angel dust.

‘Titanic’ Crew Recall the Night ... Aug. 9, 1996 on the film’s set in Halifax, Nova Scotia when craft services provided clam chowder that happened to be spiked with the drug....

June 6, 2024 - By the time they found that the food, specifically the lobster chowder, had been contaminated with PCP, the Titanic set had moved to Mexico,” a 1999 follow-up in the report stated.

September 13, 1996 - Someone had laced the lobster chowder with phencyclidine—better known as PCP or angel dust. "I didn't have any experience with drugs," says one affected crew member, Marilyn McAvoy.

May 12, 2019 - Plot Twist: Cameron was the one who spiked it. ... That's fucked up. ... Don't eat the clam chowder, ya yee! ... A buddy of mine was on the crew at the time. Heard all about it when he got back to LA.

April 17, 2024 - In 1996, during the filming of Titanic, about 80 people including James Cameron and Bill Paxton ended up in hospital after some of the food on set was spiked with the hallucinogenic drug PCP.

December 27, 2022 - The Canadian investigation ramped up as Titanic spent months shooting the ambitious Kate-and-Leo flashback sequences in Rosarito, Mexico. News of the PCP debacle quickly traveled south, actor Billy Zane recalls. (“Those kids had all the fun,” he jokes.) Most of the Nova Scotia crew didn’t go on to Rosarito, but at least one craft-service operator did.

May 1, 2019 - On 26 August 1996, the Canadian ... the Halifax regional police investigated the incident and found that someone had laced the seafood chowder with PCP:...

Ho, Ho, Ho!! Happy Holidays. On August 9, 1996, a late-night shoot of James Cameron's TITANIC suddenly broke out into chaos after crafty served the cast and crew seafood chowder. At first, everyone thought it was food poisoning from the chowder, ...

August 13, 2020 - A nearby hospital and local police later determined it was not food poisoning from the seafood, but PCP, a drug also known as "angel dust" which causes people to feel disconnected from their environments and hallucinate.

December 19, 2017 - In a recent VICE interview, Marilyn McAvoy, a set painter on the film's 1996 production, told the story of when the cast and crew of the blockbuster were poisoned with PCP—in clam chowder, no less.

July 28, 2024 - It was the cream of insider Hollywood scoops of 1996—the cast and crew of Titanic had been poisoned with PCP-spiked clam chowder. Even Bill Paxton. Even James Cameron.

December 21, 2022 - According to NYPost, on the set of Titanic on Aug. 9, 1996, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the cast and crew was provided clam chowder from craft services, which was later revealed was spiked with PCP.

December 21, 2022 - The Halifax Regional Police Service conducted a criminal investigation into the incident over a span of two-and-a-half years. However, they never found who laced the food with what was later confirmed to be PCP, according to the Nova Scotia ...

April 19, 2024 - It was done like a party thing that got carried away.” On that same podcast, the filmmaker also addressed another theory, one that didn’t exactly make him look good: " Of course, the operating theory was that I was such a psycho maniac that [the perpetrator was] trying to get back at me, but I reject that theory out of hand for obvious reasons.” 28 years after that night, it’s hard to believe that the mystery will ever be solved. It doesn’t really matter. The night of Titanic’s spiked chowder has already become part of the history of modern cinema.

He was known for pranks, just speculation. There was a two year investigation and it was never found who spiked the chowder. But maybe there will be some clues that pop out to you the listener where the mystery will finally result.

February 18, 2019 - In 1996, the cast and crew of Titanic were eating clam chowder (although there have been reports it could have been another type of chowder like lobster), without realizing until afterwards that it had been spiked with PCP.