The secret passage also contains props the intruder used to simulate a haunting, such as a rigged fuse box to manipulate the lights in the house. Nancy and Helen investigate, and they find a secret passage that leads outside, revealing how the 'ghost' entered the house. That night, strange things begin to happen, with lights going out and then exploding, cabinet doors and drawers opening, and a cloaked figure appearing and warning Nancy to give up her mystery.The next day, Nancy believes that someone broke in and tried scaring them out. Excited by the mystery, Nancy stays overnight at Flora's home, along with Flora's niece Helen. A local thug named Willie Wharton threatens Nancy one night to try to scare her father into backing down.While performing community service as punishment for a prank on a school bully, Nancy meets Flora, an elderly woman needing help with an apparent haunting in her home. While Nancy struggles to fit in, Carson is active in local politics, fighting the development of a train line through the town.

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