Lights, camera, action in downtown St. Charles

Filming of a movie based on some local urban mythology took over the Main Street Bridge over the Fox River in St. Charles Tuesday night.

The city worked with local director Nick Smith, a St. Charles North High School alumnus, on the filming of "Munger Road."

Legends about Munger Road in Wayne are prolific. Several websites identify the road as the haunting place of the ghosts of either a school bus full of children or a boy hit by a train at the tracks that cross the road. The legend says motorists who park their car at the tracks and put the vehicle in neutral will hear the footsteps of children in the gravel, the rattling of a ghost train and may even feel their car pushed forward by the ghostly hands. The legend says hand prints can be found on the rear of cars who park at the tracks as proof of the ghosts.

Filming of the feature-length production at the bridge is now complete. A website for the film is under construction at mungerroad.com.