In the days that followed, a thriving gray market sprang up for samples of the paint, which were swiftly distributed all over the country, sold to the gullible in little plastic-topped vials. Hundreds of people spontaneously arrived in Buna, anxious to scrape up paint and sniff it. A large number of miracle cures were attributed to use of this substance. People wrote open letters to the Governor of Louisiana, begging him to bomb their own cities with the "liberation gas."