LOGLINE:
While on the haunted house ride at Santa Barbara's Scare Fest, Shawn and Gus witness a murder and are soon led to believe the person who committed it is the ghost of a man who fell to his death at Scare Fest 13 years ago.

SYNOPSIS:

Juliet surprises Shawn with tickets to Scare Fest, an event at the local theme park that hasn’t taken pace in 15 years. But Shawn already had tickets to go with Gus. Not wanting to let either one down, Shawn decides to go with both on separate nights, but doesn’t tell either one. Shawn already has enough tension built up with having to tell Gus about his and Juliet’s relationship. He doesn’t want either relationship to suffer because his attention is now divided.

On opening night, Shawn and Gus head into Scare Fest. They are instantly transported to back to their youth. But things turn sour when on the Haunted House ride when Shawn witnesses a murder. Shawn tells Carol, the ride operator, immediately after, but she doesn’t believe him one bit.

Shawn and Gus discover their old assistant Ken is now working at Scare Fest. They convince Ken to help them break into the haunted house ride to get a better look at the possible murder victim. While inside the ride, Shawn takes Gus to the place he saw the man get murdered, but the man is nowhere to be found. After getting caught snooping around, the boys are brought into the fest’s administration offices. There, they meet Eve, one of the park officials. The Park President’s picture hangs on the wall and Shawn recognizes him immediately as the person who was murdered in the haunted house.

Back in the haunted house, the police are there checking out the body. But Shawn sees something fishy about the crime scene. Shawn saw the man get killed on the complete opposite side of the ride, and he wasn’t wearing a mask like this dead body is. Mr. Holloway, the park’s Vice President, steps forward and claims that he thinks the murderer was Johnny Rickets – or rather, the ghost of Johnny Ricketts. Holloway explains that Johnny Rickets was a kid that fell off the ferris wheel at Scare Fest 15 years ago and died. That was the last year they did Scare Fest… until this year, when they decided to open it back up. Holloway goes on to explain that he has been seeing Johnny Rickets everywhere, and that he thinks Ricketts is trying to tell him something beyond the grave.

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