At her grandmother's log cabin, nine-year-old Liz is led to make contact with children she believes may be her ancestors.

Jenna purchases an old doll dressed in red velvet at a neighbor's garage sale, thinking it will be the perfect birthday gift for her sister, but as soon as Jenna brings the doll home, strange things begin to happen and she wonders if the doll might be haunted.

On a bike outing to the abandoned houses by the old cement mill, Delsie and her friend Todd discover one of the houses is not empty--and a ghost dog haunts the area.