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.

‘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....

April 19, 2024 - Take a smarter break in your day - and see how far you get. Play now · He was wrong. Instead, the chowder had been laced with phencyclidine, a hallucinogenic also known as PCP or angel dust.

December 20, 2022 - Once upon a time, on the set of one of the staples of modern Hollywood cinema, James Cameron’s Titanic, the entire cast and crew accidentally had a collective PCP trip because of some spiked clam chowder, of all things.

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:...

May 3, 2013 - Basically every craft services table on a big-budget movie is going to be drugged up harder than Hunter S. Thompson's trunk. PCP in the soup, acid in the pizza, pot in the brownies, crank in the Krispy Kreme, heroin in the assorted cheeses... ...

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.

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.

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 17, 2024 - While filming the epic movie, 80 people – including James Cameron and Bill Paxton – were hospitalised after their food was spiked with PCP. Who was behind the psychedelic clam chowder?

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.

December 22, 2022 - The website Vulture recently did an interview with a couple members of that crew. It was in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Food services brought in Clam Chowder, but someone spiked it with PCP.

September 18, 2019 - Image from Twitter @historylvr... As the tale goes, on the night of 8 August, 1996, the cast and crew had just broken for a meal break, and were served catered food, which also contained the chowder....

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.

July 31, 2020 - 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.

December 19, 2017 - Of all the legends that have grown around the production of Titanic, at the time the most expensive movie ever made, the case of the poisoned chowder is the most spectacular—all the more so because it remains an unsolved mystery.

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.

December 12, 2022 - On August 9, 1996 director James ... ill after dinner. It was initially thought to have been food poisoning from the chowder that was served but turned out that someone had spiked the food with PCP....