Marie Potter has always known that her mentally handicapped daughter Julie has the ability to communicate with paranormal entities, but it seems rather harmless to her. However, when odd occurrences begin to take place, Marie and her new boyfriend Chris use a Ouija board in an attempt to find out what Julie is communicating with, and inadvertently open a gateway for a demonic force.
In Wilder, KY, country musician Bobby Mackey starts his own nightclub in an old, abandoned slaughterhouse. While renovating, Bobby's wife Janet and his employee Carl Lawson are physically assaulted — by ghosts. Bobby refuses to believe their stories, until his friend Doug Hensley researches the history of the building and learns that two murderers disposed of a victim's remains in the basement.
In 1974, a one-time Springfield, IL dance hall and gambler's paradise is transformed into a rock 'n' roll nightclub besieged by phantom music, inexplicable blasts of cold air and an ominous warning that one of the new owners is about to die
The diabolical, psychic link between a killer and his victim permeates a recently-renovated Montreal townhouse, and the new owners realize an unhappy ghost and the spirit of a coldhearted murderer are trying to sever family ties, past and present.
Drawn to an abandoned home in Tucson, AZ, Romie feels like she was always meant to be there. But, nightmares and wake time mix and merge, threatening the her sanity and posing the fearful possibility of making contact with the other world.
The troubles begin for the Wyrick family when their four-year-old daughter Heidi begins spending time with her new invisible friend, kindly old Mr. Gordy. The family eventually realizes there's more to Mr. Gordy than just a child's active imagination. Heidi awakens one night with claw marks on her face and her father Andy soon suffers the same scratches on his back. Mr. Gordy is no longer the only apparition; he's joined by a hooded, faceless figure and a man with one hand. The family contacts a parapsychologist who attributes the manifestations to energy from a fault-line. Later, a psychic tells them of several spirits in the home, some being good and some being evil. Eventually, they turn to their church for help.
Ed and Karen Parker move their family into an old Connecticut home to be near the hospital where their teenaged son receives cancer treatment. Soon after learning that their residence was once a funeral home, son Paul begins seeing entities and his health worsens. With his behavior becoming increasingly erratic, his parents have him committed to a mental hospital. Once the son is gone, the evil forces inhabiting the house turn on the rest of the family. In desperation, the Parkers contact psychic investigators Edward and Lorraine Warren for help.
