QUINCY, ILL -- This time of year, you don't typically hear about haunted houses and ghosts, but this is a little different.
The Big Dam Film Festival kicked off tonight in Quincy.
It's a two day festival put on by YP of Quincy. www.ypquincy.com
Friday night, a documentary premieres that was made by local filmmaker Travis Yates.
The documentary is called One Night in Woodland. Brother Ed Arambasich takes about a dozen people on a tour of Woodland Cemetary in Quincy. Among the tour are Yates and a film crew. The documentary starts with a small history lesson courtesy of Brother Ed. But when the tour makes its way into the cemetarys mausoleum, thing get a little weird.
"Certain sounds were caught on tape. We heard the crashes, and none of it could be explained," says Yates.
I'm not going to give away everything that happens to the group, because you have a chance to see the documentary for yourself.
"I've heard several people say they've seen shadows in the mausoleum and heard voices. I certainly was hoping something would happen. I wasn't expecting it to. When things unfolded the way they did, I knew something special was happening here," says Yates.
Yates says he still can't explain some of the things he and the group heard and saw that night. The tour actually took place in October of 2008. Yates does video projects on the side, but this is his first documentary.
"Everything was real, nothing was scripted and we started the cameras rolling. We mic'd up Brother Ed and rolled with it," says Yates.
If you'd like to see the documentary Friday night, it's premiering at the State Room in Quincy at eight o'clock. Doors open at 7:30. Tickets are $10.00 for YP members, and $15.00 for non-members.
There is also a film that's been nominated for Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that's showing tomorrow (friday) night.
It's called "An Education."
To see "One Night in Woodland, " click here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=one+night+in+woodland&aq=f
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