The stage is set for a ghostly encounter when Kaye's family runs off the road in a blizzard on Christmas Eve 2008, at the sight of a perfect pine tree chosen by young Lillian in 1938.
Examines the phenomenon of haunted houses and their ghosts, citing specific examples, and discusses the various theories that seek to explain them, including how they may be faked.
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
When their father moves them for the seventh time in the five years since their mother's death, Jenny and her younger sister hope to stay in this latest house and try to find out about the malevolent ghost who seems bent on getting revenge on their elderly neighbors.
When Uncle Tooth invites cousin Olivia along on their trip to Boogle Bay's amusement park, Otto is so upset that he decides to go off on his own and he encounters a ghostly gang of pirates intent on taking over the Fun House.
