Zack feels that a supernatural force is at work in his apartment when he encounters floating television sets, pancakes that flip by themselves, and a ghost named Wanda.
When his friend Spencer, the class genius, spends the night, he and Zack discover how to leave their bodies and travel around New York City, but they have one problem--how to get back inside themselves.
Zack befriends Icky, a mummy he found in his father's basement, and tries to find a way to reunite the young prince with his parents, Ikhanton the First and Queen Nefertiti, who are on tour in California.
When Zack goes to Florida to visit Mel & Shirley's Wonderful World of Dolphins, he is surprised to discover that he can understand and speak to dolphins, which enables him to solve a kidnapping.