Trevor Collins

Now, Mina, to kind of give you this map now, is 103 miles or 166 kilometers east of Alexander.

Fun fact, if this doesn't sound familiar to you, it might.

There's an entire movie specifically around Barry Seal and his drug smuggling activities.

It's called American Maid, starring Tom Cruise.

As we were researching this, I was like, this sounds exactly like that Tom Cruise movie.

Yeah.

And it is.

It is, yeah.

About a man who would fly in, fly low over the swamps and drop boxes and bunches of cocaine to designated drops in the middle of nowhere that people would go pick them up.

Right?

Yeah.

So this is fact.

This was based on reality.

Seal and his cohorts would fly planes carrying these illicit drugs, usually cocaine, but could be anything, would drop them over predetermined sites in remote areas all across the southern states.

And they would fly low under cover of dark, sometimes midnight, sometimes early, early morning, but always at dark.

And the drugs would then be packaged in these small capsules, essentially.

So when they dropped, the parachute would open and they would float down to wherever.

So to you and me, it would be out in the sticks.

But to somebody who might be living in a small town who might actually be remote, they might stumble into this.

Let me untie that knot for you, because that is a wonderful question.