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Commentary:
Halloween?
Going on a Cemetery Expedition with a group of GHOST HUNTERS.
Aired ATC
5-17-04
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Commentary: Halloween? Going on a Cemetery Expedition with a group of GHOST HUNTERS. Aired ATC 5-17-04
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Review of Cemetery ExpeditionA short trip to the cemetery looking for paranormal evidence allows producer Jake Warga to explore themes of mortality and graveside decoration. Light fare for the Hallowe'en season. Jake is honest and skeptical. the piece isn't about the presence or absence of ghosts or spirits, focusing rather on a few aspects of the realities of death: its inevitability, ubiquity, and peculiar effects upon the living. |
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Review of Cemetery ExpeditionYou ever wonder who belongs to a ghost hunting group? Wonder no more. This whimsical meanderation through a cemetery is a good pick for adults around Halloween time. Not scary, ruminative, amusing. Warga writes well for the air. This is an enjoyable 4- minute foray and good drop-in before the big boo night. |
Transcript
(Host intro: J.W. belongs to a Ghost Hunting group…late-nite investigations of cemeteries)
What are we looking for? Well, ghosts. Most of us are flashing away into the darkness with digital cameras, hoping for an orb (a circle I like to call dust) or ecto clouds (a strange fog I like to call breaths—it’s very cold). I don’t believe you can capture a ghost or spirit on film. But most everyone, including myself, is carrying a cassette recorder—hoping to capture on tape an unexplained voice, a voice other than the living.
People are goofing around, chatting, forming small groups and walking off into the darkness over grassy hills. I’m busy fiddling my tape recorder. By the time I look up I’m alone, my headlamp lighting the path of my gaze over neat grass and rows of headstones.
I read some of the markers: some had long lives, others short. I spot some artificial flowers hangi...
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Posted on October 20, 2008 at 09:25 AM | Permalink
Review of Cemetery Expedition
Jake is a skeptic, who belongs to a ghost hunting group. Admittedly a pretty good concept for a short Halloween piece. He provides some good insight into life and death, and does so with an engaging wry wit. I suspect many who hear the first minute or two of the piece might be a little disappointed as they will not get first hand insight into what haunts a graveyard , however, if they stick with it, they will likely smile and nod appreciatingly at Jakes observations.
This should make nice short filler for the week of Halloween, when all of us begin contemplating this world and the next.