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Feb 24, 2023 · Yes. Our story starts on December 22, 1985, in the mountain town of Blue Ridge in northern Georgia. Investigators were initially combing the forest for cocaine dropped by an airborne drug smuggler (more on him later) when they found a 79kg black bear had overdosed after stumbling upon a duffel bag full of the drug first.
- Jessica Riga
Dec 1, 2022 · The movie “Cocaine Bear” offers a fictionalized account of what happened when a black bear found several pounds of cocaine in Georgia in 1985. Matt Stone/Courier Journal, via Imagn Content...
- Amanda Holpuch
Apr 14, 2023 · Cocaine Bear: The True Story: Directed by Robert Palumbo, Tom Pollock. With Alan Calton, Paul Andrew Goldsmith, Eloise Hare, Sharon Martin. Dives deep into the bizarre actual events behind the hit Hollywood movie Cocaine Bear.
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- Documentary
- Robert Palumbo, Tom Pollock
- 2023-04-14
Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear (sometimes spelled Escobear) or Cokey the Bear, was a 175-pound (79-kilogram) American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985. The cocaine had been dropped by a group of Colombian drug smugglers in the wilderness in Tennessee, United States.
- Cocaine overdose
- 1985, Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia
- Pablo Eskobear, Cokey the Bear
- American black bear
Mar 13, 2023 · ANIMALS. EXPLAINER. There’s a true story behind ‘Cocaine Bear’—and it’s no laughing matter. The new comedic horror film is based on the real-life drug overdose of an American black...
Feb 24, 2023 · Universal. Cocaine Bear, starring Keri Russell, dramatizes what happened after a bear found a cocaine stash that real-life drug smuggler Andrew Thornton dropped from an airplane in 1985....
