Movie about area haunts to debut for Halloween

Jeffrey Jones of Davison will release his documentary, The Haunting Truth: Mid-Michigan’s Urban Legends and Paranormal Activity on Oct. 30 in Oxford. Jones is pictured here while filming his 90-minute documentary. DAVISON — Davison filmmaker Jeffrey Jones said the release of his movie about haunted places in mid- Michigan couldn’t have come at a better time of year — Halloween.

Jones said every year around Halloween he would talk about making a horror or thriller film, but it never came to be, until now.

Almost a year’s worth of investigation, interviewing and filming has culminated in the upcoming Oct. 30 release of Jones’ film called The Haunting Truth: Mid- Michigan’s Urban Legends and Paranormal Activity.

The movie will debut at the Oxford 7 theater in Oxford, Jones’ hometown, on Oct. 30 — Devil’s Night — at midnight.

“The movie is finally ready to premiere,” said Jones, a 1997 graduate of Oxford High School. “I didn’t want to cut anything out of this movie; it could have been 2-2 1/2 hours, easily. But I had to cut it down to 90 minutes ... so it’s full of good stuff.”

The movie explores urban legends and stories about haunted places from the Lapeer area down through Romeo. A little more than a third of the movie is about urban legends and hauntings in the Oxford area and then the rest of the film deals with places like Goodrich, Metamora and Pontiac.

Some of the legends Jones said he’s examined are the tales of Blood Road in Metamora, Dunn’s Tomb in Oxford and the supposed haunting of Cranberries Café in Goodrich.

The owners of Cranberries, said Jones, have experienced odd sounds and sightings of apparitions in their restaurant in recent years.

Jones took a team of ghost hunters into the building and had some strange electromagnetic readings off some old books in the basement of the restaurant.

Blood Road is a place where murders supposedly took place some years ago and now strange things are said to happen there at night. Dunn’s Tomb is where some say a murderer reportedly stored body parts from his victims.

Jones and his production company — Midget Pickle Productions — began work on the project in November 2008 and includes re-enactments, interviews with witnesses and actual paranormal investigations. Detroit media personality Greg Russell provides voiceover narration for the film, said Jones.

For more about the movie visit www.myspace.com/ midgetpickleproductions.

Tickets for the premiere are $8 each and moviegoers can dress up for a costume party/contest. The film will be shown again at the Oxford 7 on Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31 at 9 a.m. and again at midnight. Tickets are $6.25 for the morning show and $8 for the late show.

The documentary will be shown during November at the Uptown Palladium 12 in Birmingham and the Crofoot in Pontiac. Jones said he is also trying to arrange a showing at the PIX Theater in Lapeer.

Tickets can be purchased at the

Oxford 7 or at www.gqti.com.

A film trailer is at www.haunting

truth.com.