Bizard happenings occur after socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, invites an eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a seance. He hoped to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and tempermental first wife, Elvira, after the seance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.
