After losing the family fortune to a fraudulent psychic, inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. All he needs is a genuine haunting to prove his Electro-S ance will work. A letter from wealthy industrialist Dominic Gladfield seems the answer to his prayers. Gladfield's proposition: a contest pitting science against spiritualism, with a hefty prize for the winner. The contest takes...