Dotti Enderle

Ten-year-old Malcolm and his best friend Dandy, armed with a ghost detector ordered from Beyond Belief magazine, make a late-night trip to a haunted house, despite the warnings of Malcolm's great-grandmother.

Ten-year-olds Malcolm and Dandy think their ghost-hunting days are over when they start fifth grade with the toughest teacher in their school, but Malcolm's photographs for the yearbook reveal that the school is haunted.

When Malcolm gets a school assignment to write a research report on a long-dead hero who wrote a book about his adventure-packed life, he is shocked to meet the author's ghost, who reveals that he was a fake.

The miraculous X-specs glasses added to the ghost hunting gear is supposed to have X-ray vision, but all they seem to do is hypnotize whoever looks at them.

The secret is revealed that the factory is haunted when Mrs. Goolsby's class is dodging flying sugar beets when on their class trip.

It takes a little imagination and help from Dandy's new girlfriend to zap a headless ghost at Mr. Gable's horse stable.