[Child laughs]
[Muffled heartbeat]
Beautiful night.
Yeah. Just right for a tale of terror.
Ha!
What are you doing?
Getting ready for fright night. What else?
Stop. What is that?
It's a magic flute from my dad's shop.
It's supposed to make it rain.
You're not supposed to take dad's stuff.
[Blows loudly]
Enough.
Dad's magic never works.
Never say never.
Maybe you're just doing it wrong.
You think?
You never know the power of something magical
until it's been tested.
I hope this is about your story.
If you believe in magic,
then you know it can be very powerful,
but only if you understand how to use it.
Magical powers can be used for good,
but if you don't know what you're doing,
back off
because that same power can turn against you.
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society,
I call this story...
[Girl] To trap a creature of night,
trace a door on a wall with chalk so white.
Arabarius, lokoradee,
creature of darkness, come to me!
Stay where you are!
I command you, stay where you are!
Arabarius, lokoradet,
I command you, enter this amulet.
I command you, enter this amulet!
I command you, enter the amulet!
Aah!
[Screaming]
Well, this is it, gang-- home, sweet home.
It's big!
Hey, last one up gets the lumpy bed.
Well, go after him. You might win.
I like the lumpy bed.
Hey, we got our own bathroom.
[Wind blowing]
Man, it's cold in here.
This place is great.
Let's get our stuff.
[Groans]
OK, that's it for now, guys. Bedtime.
Oh! Oh!
Um, I think we got to skip school tomorrow.
Yeah. There's plenty to unpack. School can wait.
No, it can't. You feel all right?
Yeah. Just tired.
Well, you both look exhausted. Come on, hit the sheets.
And no staying up late telling ghost stories, either.
I mean it, Aaron. Every time you do,
you scare your brother half to death.
OK? Up you go.
Good night.
Hey, cut it out!
It's not me!
Doug!
It's not me! I swear!
What was that?
It felt like an earthquake.
Mom said no scary stuff.
I didn't do it!
Yeah, sure!
Oh, I get it.
Paybacks for telling you those stories
at the hotel last night.
Well, sorry, pal, but I don't scare like you.
You are so full of it!
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah? Come here.
Uh, wait, wait, wait.
Shouldn't we clean this up?
Nah! Nah!
[Aaron] Sorry.
No problem.
Hi. Aaron?
Hi. I'm Miss Berg.
I'll introduce you to the rest of the class.
Class, we have a new student joining us--
Aaron Johnston.
Please make him feel welcome.
Aaron, you can take the seat next to Connie.
Ah, sorry.
Ow! Ow!
Mr. Johnston?
Please take your seat.
Open your geometry books to page 60.
[Bang]
Are you a comedian, Mr. Johnston?
No, ma'am. I was just--
Good. We don't tolerate comedians in this classroom.
Now, pick up your things.
We'll be having a quiz tomorrow, so I suggest you take notes.
This is not a good start, Mr. Johnston.
Well, maybe I'm jinxed or something.
[Doug] Yeah.
Hey, so you OK?
You don't look that hot.
Yeah. I'm fine.
Hi, Aaron.
Ow!
Cool necklace.
Huh?
Your necklace, I like it.
Oh, yeah, um, it was my grandfather's.
He was a pilot.
It's his wings. They're silver.
I noticed that.
Well, I'll see you tomorrow.
Yeah.
Aaron's got a girlfriend.
Do not.
Do, too.
I don't.
Give me...
Wow.
Cool dream.
[Girl] To trap a creature of night,
trace a door on the wall with chalk so white.
Connie?
What are you doing?
Whoa!
Cool.
Arabarius, lokoradee,
creature of darkness, come to me.
Who are you talking to?
Whoa!
Stay where you are!
I command you, stay where you are!
Connie, look out!
Arabarius, lokoradet,
I command you, enter this amulet!
I was wrong! I did it wrong!
No!
What's going on?
Oh, man. I just had this nightmare.
There was this...
This nasty-looking guy,
and Connie was there.
That girl from school?
Yeah.
Figures.
[Coughing]
You feeling all right?
Not really. I think I'm sick.
[Scraping noise]
Aaron, what's going on?
Aaron.
Aaron, don't!
What is it?
I don't know.
[Aaron] It's Connie, but it says Laura.
[Doug] Then who's that?
I don't get it.
[Boys screaming]
[Screaming]
Guys, what's going on?
Did you see it?
What? Why are you screaming?
[Aaron] There was a ghost!
Oh, more ghost stories!
But this one's for real!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I think you've got a fever.
Have you guys been up all night?
There was a ghost.
It came through the wall!
Guys, enough. Look, I want you both in bed right now.
Come on. Let's go.
Now!
You sure you're OK?
No, I'm not OK! A ghost just tried to--
Go to sleep!
You'll feel better in the morning.
Good night, guys.
[Mr. Johnston] And no more ghost stories.
[Connie] I have no idea why I do this
all the time, and it's just--
Hi, Connie.
Hi, Aaron.
Can I talk to you for a minute?
Alone?
Sure.
See you.
What's up?
Are you related to a girl named Laura Turner?
Why?
Because I have to talk to her.
That's not funny.
I'm not trying to be funny. Who is she?
Laura's my twin sister. Who got you to do this?
Nobody. Is there a problem?
Laura's dead.
Uh, I'm sorry.
Forget it.
Wait.
Have you ever seen this before?
This is Laura's yearbook.
Where did you get this?
[Coughing]
"Poltergeist-- a friendly spirit."
Yeah, right.
"Quicksilver--
"a teenage girl poltergeist
known for leaving the letter Q wherever they haunt."
Q? There was a...
A...
Ohhh...
This is Laura's yearbook.
She had a secret hiding place--
Behind the wall near the floor?
Connie, I live in your old house.
I know this is hard to talk about,
but, um, how did she die?
We only lived in that house a few weeks
when Laura started telling everyone
she thought it was haunted.
She found out it was built over an old cemetery or something...
And said there was an evil creature lurking in the walls,
but she was sick!
She had this fever.
The doctors didn't know what was wrong.
Laura said it was the ghost.
Well, what happened?
No one believed her.
How could they?
They thought it was the fever.
So she said she had to get rid of the ghost herself.
How?
She got a book on magic...
And one night, she lit some candles...
And no one knows what happened.
The room caught on fire, and she...
I...
I think I know what happened.
[Coughing]
Shoot.
I'm not going to get more.
Aah!
Weird things have been happening
ever since I moved in that house.
Then I had this dream.
There was a girl. I thought it was you, but...
It was Laura.
I don't want to hear this.
She was doing some kind of magic to get rid of the ghost,
but it didn't work.
Then she looked at me.
She looked right at me, Connie, and she said,
"I did it wrong."
She was telling me how to get rid of the ghost!
I don't believe it! I can't!
Look.
I'm sorry if this is mean,
but you didn't believe her the first time
and look what happened.
It's happening again.
My brother is sick,
and I'm not going to let any ghost or -- or whatever hurt him.
I've seen it.
I believe.
I-I need your help.
Laura's giving you a second chance.
Hello?
Quicksilver...
If that's what you are,
it does mean you're friendly, right?
Man, I don't believe this.
Aah! Aaron, you won't believe it!
There's two ghosts-- a good one and a bad one.
The Quicksilver was here, but the bad ghost came and took over.
[Aaron] I know. It's OK. Relax.
What's she doing here?
She's going to help us get rid of the bad ghost.
Where's Mom?
Uh, she went to pick up Dad at work.
Good. We have to do this before they get back.
It feels so weird being here after all this time.
[Aaron] This is it.
This is the stuff Laura used in my dream.
Mom didn't have the heart to throw them away.
What are you going to do?
We're going to finish what Laura started.
"To trap a creature of night,
"trace a door on a wall with chalk so white.
"Surrounded by candlelight so pure,
"place incense and herbs in a brazier to burn.
"Arabarius, lokoradee,
creature of darkness, come to me."
It worked!
"As darkness enters, ready his cage,
"a wand made of oak tied with silver
"will hold the night creature at bay
"and forbid him to stray.
"Order the night creature into the amulet.
"Arabarius, lokoradet,
there he will be for an eternity kept."
Aah!
[Doug] Aaron!
Now what?
Arabarius, lokoradet,
I command you, enter this amulet.
Uh, Aaron!
Aaron, do something!
[Aaron] Connie!
I don't know what to do.
Aaron!
Doug!
That thing has my brother.
I don't know what went wrong.
We did everything the books says.
Laura said she did it wrong.
We must have missed something. We must have.
It's coming back.
What did we do wrong?
[Connie] Aaron, it's coming.
"A wand made of oak tied with silver will--"
silver.
This isn't silver. It's steel.
I command you, stay where you are!
Arabarius, lokoradet,
I command you, enter the amulet!
What a ride!
You OK?
Yeah. Yeah. I feel fine.
Guys... look.
I'm sorry I didn't believe you, Laura.
I miss you.
[Kiki] Because Connie finished what her sister started,
Doug got better,
and neither ghost was ever seen again.
The end.
So if you're going to use magic, make sure you do it right.
I declare this meeting of the Midnight Society closed.
[Thunder]
I didn't do it!
I didn't do it.
Wait for me!
Captioned by Grant Brown