The legend of a ghost on the island where he is spending the summer inspires money-hungry thirteen-year-old Derek to dupe his friends into paying admission to a supposedly haunted house.
Knowing that he is not imagining the strange sounds he hears and that things cannot be mysteriously disappearing, Peter gathers courage to investigate in the attic.
Ten-year-old best friends and ghost hunters, known to each other as Gitter and Googer, think they have a chance to find a real ghost when Gitter's family inherits an old house in Maine.
Sammy's new pet, a parrot named Polly, is quite boring, but the friends she attracts--another parrot and a ghostly pirate crew--prove to be very exciting.
Staying in Colonial Williamsburg in a former ancestorial house, Jayne meets an old family ghost, Sally Custis, who begs Jayne to help her set right a wrong done over 200 years ago.