Hank Peck, a World War I veteran now hoboing and looking for work during Great Depression, makes an unfortunate choice when he hops off the Milwaukee Railroad just outside Uppsala, Wisconsin. Unknowingly, he has landed himself in the midst of a ghost story: the Uppsalans have violently expelled earlier settlers from their town, and a deadly, vengeful spirit has terrified them ever since. Rather than welcome a traveler in need, the townspeople threaten...