Soon after learning that their residence was once a funeral home, sons Paul and Bobby start seeing ghosts.
Shortly afterward, their four-year-old daughter Heidi begins spending time with an imaginary friend, a kindly old man named Mr. Gordy.
However, Heidi begins to see images of "the Dark Figure", a man whose face is obscured by a hood.
The family believes that there's more to the Dark Figure than just a child's active imagination after Heidi awakens one night with claw marks on her face.
In March 2005, Libby and Seán Johnson fix up a worn down, abandoned house in Chester, Vermont.
In Green Lake, Wisconsin, three young adult men head out to a cemetery near the city to investigate a legend they have heard from there.
Afterward, another group of young adults head out there after overhearing the story from the three men at a gas station and find themselves undergoing the same experience, including one of them being scratched on the arms.
In the summer of 2003, twelve-year-old John Drenner, Jr. finds an old abandoned shack in the woods surrounding Odenton, Maryland, behind his grandmother's home.
One night, his sister Cheryl hears him chanting in an unfamiliar language and when she stops him, his nose starts bleeding.
Once the children go back home to nearby Pasadena, John becomes terrorized by a demonic entity every night who is hellbent on tormenting him.
It's not too long after Nicole moves in, the couple come to realize the cabin is haunted by the previous owner who died there.
Nicole suspects he died on the property and becomes the prime target for the old man's spirit, even hearing his voice shouting "Get out!"