The Kentucky Fun Mall displays a taxidermied black bear presented as the animal that died after ingesting cocaine dropped by drug smuggler Andrew Thornton in Georgia in 1985. The bear's later provenance has accumulated its own mythology, so the shop's claim is best treated as part history and part modern roadside legend.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: kyforky.com/pages/lexington-ky-s-kentucky-fun-mall-home-of-the-bear-who-ate-cocaine