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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