For generations, Castle Canterville has been haunted, but that doesn't stop the American envoy Hiram B. Otis from purchasing the old estate and moving in with his family. As modern, enlightened Americans, they don't believe in these British ghost stories. Thus, hard times begin for the old castle ghost, who has never experienced such disrespect in all the centuries. Neither rattling chains nor recurring bloodstains impress the newcomers; on the contrary, they mock him and drive him to despair with all sorts of pranks, until little Virginia, the daughter of the host, takes pity on him...