The Ghost House ( audio story ) The Ghost House was a made - for - audio " Sarah Jane Adventures " audiobook written by Steve Cole , produced for BBC Audio and read by Elisabeth Sladen . It accompanied the CBBC broadcast of series 2 . Publisher ' s summary . Up early one morning , Sarah is astonished to see that the house opposite hers has changed overnight : what used to be a nondescript 1970s family home has been replaced by a smart Victorian residence . How did a house from 1884 suddenly materialise in Bannerman Road ? Where has the old O ' Brien place gone ? And more importantly , who – or what – has caused this temporal anomaly ? Sarah and friends must find out before time itself explodes and destroys the world . . . Plot . One early morning Sarah Jane Smith is inside her kitchen , when she hears a crash from outside . She investigates and sees that the O ' Briens ' house on 39 Bannerman Road has swapped places with an old Victorian house . The owners , the O ' Brien family , have gone to Australia for three weeks . Sarah decides to take a closer look . She sees that the house inside is still the same , there are family portraits of the O ' Brien family and a DVD player . Just the outside of the house has changed . Back at the attic Mr Smith scans 39 Bannerman Road for time anomalies . He tells Sarah that the Victorian house was from 1884 and that the time anomalies could spread beyond the O ' Briens ' house . Luke wants to use the Vorgatt defence field emitter to enclose the house and stop the effect spreading . Sarah replies that she is not sure that it has the range but at least it would keep people away . After using the Vorgatt defence field emitter Luke , Rani and Clyde go into the house . They realise that more and more things from inside the house swap places and suddenly Rani is gone as well . A short time later she returns . Mr Smith later says that someone , operating in 1884 , has sent Rani forward in time again to ensure that she stays in the year 2009 . He adds that they have to seal this crack in time otherwise it would cause an explosion of temporal energy that could destroy the life on Earth . Sarah and Luke decide to get into the house . They are sent back in time to 1884 . They meet Charles and Beatrice Burden , who are worrying because their daughter May has vanished from the house . Then suddenly Sarah and Luke back in 2009 . There they find May who had fallen through the crack in time and promise her to bring her back to her parents . Then Rani and Clyde come to the house as well . May tells them that a bad man at the " spidery place " was responsible for this . When Rani asks May what the spidery place is May doesn ' t reply . Luke and Sarah decide that they want to go back in time again to find out what is happening . Before that Sarah Jane wants to ask Mr Smith if he has any idea where to find the bad man . She tells Luke , Rani and Clyde to stay outside the house , but they don ' t listen . Rani stays with May in 2009 . Luke and Clyde want to travel backwards in time to 1884 . Luke uses the Vorgatt defence field emitter on Clyde and himself so that whoever is operating in 1884 can ' t send them back to 2009 so easily . In 1884 they face Charles Burden , who thinks that they are evil spirits that have taken his child and replaced his furniture . Then Clyde and Luke hear a scream from upstairs they go there and see that Beatrice Burden is sent to the future . Just after Clyde and Luke see a large , spindly , shadow figure at the attic of the Burden house , they are sent back to 2009 . Beatrice Burden arrives in the year 2009 . There she meets May and Rani . Rani gets to know that the " spidery place " , where May had seen the bad man , is a toilet in the garden of the Burdens ' home . When Sarah returns to her attic , she sees that an alien intruder is already inside the attic and using Mr Smith . The alien is called Deathy , has red skin and three eyes . He explains that he hacked into Mr Smith ' s higher access level command centre and tapped into his power supply ten days ago . Mr Smith didn ' t notice it because he was still effected by his reboot after the Armageddon virus . Deathy needed Mr Smith to create a stasis bubble . He locked the criminal Ephnol in time while he caught Skak , another criminal . Skak now is attacking the time trap , to release Ephnol . This is causing time anomalies and the houses are swapping places because of it . Sarah and Deathy go to the house of the Burden family . Rani tells them that May has seen Skak in the toilet . Then a police car arrives . Deathy is pressing a control on his handhold device and in a flash the policeman vanishes . Deathy explains that the policeman isn ' t hurt and is 2km away now . However , his colleague who is still in the car makes a report , more police cars turn up . Deathy runs away and the police woman runs after him . Meanwhile , Sarah and Rani find Clyde and Luke outside 39 Bannerman Road on the floor . They tell Sarah that they have seen Ephnol ' s shadow in 1884 at the attic of the house . Sarah and her friends decide to go into the O ' Briens ' house . They are sent back in time again and find Skak at the toilet . Sarah and the others fight against Skak and he has to leave his time manipulator unguarded . Sarah throws the Vorgatt defence field emitter to Rani . Rani puts it on the machine . Sarah activates it with her sonic lipstick . Skak can ' t use the machine any more , however it is still active . A short time later Ephnol arrives . He is free and the stasis bubble is broken . Now the world is only protected by the Vorgatt defence field emitter which doesn ' t have much power left . Charles Burden comes into the garden and sees Ephnol and Skak . He thinks they are the demons that have stolen his daughter and wife . Along with other people from around the area he attacks them . The aliens are outnumbered . Then Deathy arrives and sets everything right . The houses are back where they were . Beatrice and May are home again . Deathy takes Ephnol and Skak away . They have to stand trail for their deeds . Then he sends Luke , Rani , Clyde and Sarah back to 2008 . They go away to Sarah ' s house to have breakfast .