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Fortean topics have a certain place in the media, but it is rare that one acts as a vehicle for getting a health promot­ion message across, or goes on to win prestigious awards. But this was the case when a group of 12- and 13-year-old boys from De La Salle school in Croxteth, Liverpool, obtained a £5,000 lottery grant to make a five-minute film. Buried Above Ground uses local folklore about William McKenzie, a compulsive gambler who lost his soul to the Devil in a game of poker and whose ghost is said to haunt Rodney Street in the city centre.