Paxton said, �Some people were laughing, some people were crying, some people were throwing up. One minute I felt O.K., the next minute I felt so go**amn anxious I wanted to breathe in a paper bag. [James] Cameron was feeling the same way.� They then realized the clam chowder had been spiked with a hallucinogen.
The crew was then divided into "good crew" and "bad crew" with the latter group consisting of about 50-80 people, who were taken to Dartmouth General Hospital where Cameron saw, �People are moaning and crying, wailing, collapsed on tables and gurneys. The DP, Caleb Deschanel, is leading a number of the crew down the hall in a highly vocal conga line. You can�t make this stuff up.� Set decorator Claude Roussel said, �Grips were going down the hallway doing wheelies in wheelchairs�.
The Nova Scotia Department of Health found that the clam chowder was spiked with PCP. The Halifax Regional Police Service's investigation of the incident last 2 1/2 years, but the police were unable to find out who the culprit was.
