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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Titanic PCP Mystery (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A major motion picture is unknowingly under the influence in 1996. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3IG3On2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

the USS PCP. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town.

0:20.5

Did you eat any of the PCP spike clam chowder from the set of Titanic and did they ever catch

0:26.8

the person responsible? Yeah, that's kind of a crazy story. On August 9th, 1996, when lunch was served

0:33.5

on the set of Titanic, the soup contained a secret ingredient, fencichlidine, better known as PCP.

0:41.3

We are talking about the lunch that was spiked with PCP on the set of the major motion picture

0:52.1

Titanic. I've had some horrible lunches working in entertainment the past 10 plus years. I've never

1:00.3

once had a lunch that sounded that fun. They'd be a good lunch for me. They'd be a good lady. Nice soup

1:06.8

with PCP. On the Halifax Nova Scotia set of Titanic, the casting crew, including director James Cameron,

1:13.6

producer John Landau, cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, and actors Bill Paxton and Susie Amisse. I think

1:21.1

that's how you pronounce our name. Now Susie Amisse Cameron. We're ready to complete the scene shot

1:28.5

on the evening of August 8th and then move on to Mexico. We're a massive replica of the Titanic

1:33.7

was waiting on an outdoor soundstage in Baja. However, just across Halifax Bay, the crew broke for lunch

1:40.0

at midnight courtesy of local caters. The specifics of this chowder seemed to be murky at best.

1:46.1

Cameron claims it was muscle chowder. Paxton, he claimed it was clam. The Halifax police

1:52.9

report suggested it was lobster. Susie Amisse was one of the few casting crew who was not

1:59.9

interested in any of the chowder, no matter what it turned out to be. And Cameron, who is now

2:05.9

married to Amisse said, quote, she's always been high on my list of suspects as a result.

2:12.2

No, someone saying no to chowder is a pretty common thing, especially at a catered crew meal at midnight,

2:18.6

midnight chowder. I mean, listen, I'm all over and I love discount seafood, free seafood,

2:22.4

even better, PCP lace seafood, even better, better. It's probably been stressful. I would imagine,

2:28.8

I don't think you want a cream based soup as a lunch. And this is a lunch. So you know they're

2:33.5

going to five AM. That would fuck anybody up without drugs. It didn't take long for the consequences

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