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.

When forced on a camp-out with their fathers, ten-year-olds Malcolm and Dandy seek the smelly ghost of notorious outlaw Wild Willy Wallace, who is believed to haunt his old hideout at Lake Itchyburr.