The true story of the "Cocaine Bear" involves a 175-pound American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985 after drug smugglers dropped the cocaine in the wilderness in Tennessee). The cocaine was apparently dropped from a plane piloted by Andrew Thornton, a convicted drug smuggler who died in a parachuting accident. The bear was found dead in northern Georgia and was stuffed and displayed at a mall in Kentucky). The bear had absorbed three or four grams of cocaine into its bloodstream, although it may have eaten more. The real story is a lot less monstrous than the movie depicts, and there were no other casualties or severed limbs found in the forest that linked back to the bear. The bloody spree that follows the bears cocaine binge, as depicted in the trailer, is fictional.