 A group of film school students convince med student Alex Smith, a friend of director Craig Wilson, to give them access to Community General s old basement for a movie about a local ghost story in time for its 25th anniversary, the disappearance of nurse Blair Lawson who left a child behind. To their own surprise, the psychotronic  ghost detector  and Luminol they brought for a self-planted blood splat find an apparently real one. When they return there another day, they experience something unaccounted, and one of them gets mildly electrocuted. When Dr. Don Matthews hears about it, he kindly insists Mark puts an end to the unauthorized filming. A weird séance medium suggests Blair got a fatal blow on the head. Craig gets knocked down on the head from behind, and remembers an unusual smell there. Afer the film team bailed on Craig, he confirms to Mark his real connection with Blair, the reason why he is trying to solve her alleged murder, inspiring Mark an original corps theory...