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The PCP Chowder Incident on James Cameron's Film Set
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Roy closes with the episode's most surreal true story. It's August 1996, Nova Scotia. The crew of James Cameron's Titanic eats a late-night bowl of chowder on set. Within minutes, Cameron is violently ill, then stumbling back onto a set that appears to be empty. It isn't — everyone who ate the chowder is incapacitated [1] — Carter Roy "On a 1996 Nova Scotia film set, 80 crew members were hospitalised after eating laced chowder — causing James Cameron to laugh uncontrollabl…" 59:00 . Cameron laughs uncontrollably. A crew member stabs him in the face with a pen. Bill Paxton leads a conga line. By the end of the night, roughly 80 crew members are hospitalised. Police initially suspect food poisoning, but the chowder hasn't gone bad. The investigation confirms it was deliberately laced with PCP. The case is closed in 1999 with no charges filed. Cameron suspects a recently fired crew member. Gloria Stewart, who went to a restaurant instead, is notably unaffected. The episode ends on this note — a story so strange it feels invented, but isn't.
