Spooked by Saint-Saens

Sometimes you wonder if someone is trying to tell you something. Friday afternoon I'm in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, my 40 p mix of sweets in hand, and I see one of those Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive portals. Is that the right word? Basically it's a computer dotted around arts centres, museums and libraries. It's free access so you can watch films, documentaries, animations, tv news and sport all from the archive. There's a film of the Bangor Yacht race filmed in 1898, feature films including Alan Clarke's chilling "Elephant" and a report by Gloria Hunniford from 1970 about chestnut trees being uprooted in Portadown to make way for the motorway.

On screen in the cinema lobby, "Midnight Dance", John McCloskey's 1996 genius animation based on Saint-Saens "Dance Macabre". The superstition is that Death appears at midnight on Hallowe'en and, by playing his fiddle, he summons the dead from their graves. Pretty creepy stuff but brilliantly made.

Then Saturday I'm in the Queens Film Theatre to have a look at Kev Largey's art exhibition, the Belfast street artist who is showing his work while Banksy's film "Exit through the Gift Shop" is showing there. Just don't call him the Belfast Banksy please!

Anyway, there's another Digital Film Archive portal/computer set up, and what's on screen again? "Midnight Dance".

Then I come into work to present "Sounds Classical" and at 23 mins past 8 on the running order it says Saint-Saens Danse Macabre.

Now I really am spooked.