All these years later, no one knows who got the Titanic cast and crew high on PCP
The notorious spiked seafood chowder on the set of Titanic remains top-tier behind-the-scenes lore

Twenty-five years ago, a late-night shoot of James Cameron’s Titanic suddenly descended into chaos after the cast and crew took a break to chow down servings of seafood chowder. While food poisoning is never out of the question when it comes to eating seafood, the cast and crew were not suffering from tummy aches, but rather the hallucinogenic effects of PCP, which was used to spike the chowder.
“We had a room for the grips and electricians, and one of the guys started talking really hyper,” crew member Jake Clarke recalls, per Vulture. “He’s a big guy, like six-four, and he says, ‘Do you guys feel okay? Because I don’t. I feel like I’m on something, and believe me, I would know.’ He was just chattering on like that. And just as he was saying this, we saw James Cameron run by the door and this extra running behind him. He said, ‘There’s something in me! Get it out!’”
Cast and crew members were swiftly divided up into “good crew” and “bad crew” areas, with the sober employees tasked with wrangling those reeling from the drug. Amongst the bad bunch included Cameron himself, as well as actor Bill Paxton, who were all carted away to the nearest hospital.