Fact1: Ray after dies Frank cons and Lucy, Fact2: Frank 's ability to foretell murders puts him under suspicion with police and FBI agent Milton Dammers, Fact3: Grim Reaper despite Frank 's attempts to prevent it killed Rees-Jones, Fact4: Lucy is attacked while visiting Frank in jail, Fact5: Bartlett 's ghost was responsible for wife 's death and number on brow
Output: In 1990, architect Frank Bannisters wife, Debra, dies in a car accident. He abandons his profession and his unfinished dream house sits incomplete. Following the accident, Frank gained the power to see ghosts and befriends three: 1970s street gangster Cyrus, 1950s nerd Stuart, and The Judge, a gunslinger from the Old West. The ghosts haunt houses so Frank can then exorcise them for a fee. Most locals consider him a con man. Soon after Frank cons local health nut Ray Lynskey and his wife Lucy, a physician, Ray dies of a heart attack. Frank discovers there is an entity, appearing as the Grim Reaper, killing people, first marking numbers on their foreheads that only Frank sees. Debra had a similar number when she was found. Franks ability to foretell the murders puts him under suspicion with the police and FBI agent Milton Dammers, who is convinced Frank is responsible. Frank is arrested for killing newspaper editor Magda ReesJones, who had attacked him in the press. It was actually the Grim Reaper who killed ReesJones, despite Franks attempts to prevent it. Lucy investigates the murders and becomes a target of the Grim Reaper. She is attacked while visiting Frank in jail; but they escape with the help of Cyrus and Stuart, who are both dissolved in the process. Frank wants to commit suicide to stop the Grim Reaper. Lucy helps Frank have a neardeath experience by putting him into hypothermia and using barbiturates to stop his heart. Dammers abducts Lucy, revealing that he had been a victim of Charles Manson and his Family in 1969. In his ghostly form, Frank confronts the Grim Reaper and discovers that he is the ghost of Johnny Bartlett, a psychiatric hospital orderly who killed twelve people 30 years earlier, before being captured, convicted and executed. Newspaper reports reveal that his greatest desire was to become the most prolific serial killer ever, showing pride at killing more than contemporaries like Charles Starkweather. Patricia Bradley, then a teenager, was accused as his accomplice, although she escaped the death penalty due to her underage status. Lucy resuscitates Frank and they visit Patricia. Unknown to them, Patricia is still in love with Bartlett and on friendly, homicidal terms with Bartletts ghost, and eventually kills her own mother, who had been trying to monitor her daughters behavior. Lucy and Frank trap Bartletts spirit in his urn, which Patricia has kept. The pair make for the chapel of the nowabandoned psychiatric hospital hoping to send Bartletts ghost to Hell. Patricia and Dammers chase them through the ruins. Dammers throws the ashes away, releasing Bartletts ghost again before Patricia kills Dammers. Bartletts ghost and Patricia hunt down Frank and Lucy. Frank realizes that Bartletts ghost, with Patricias help, was responsible for his wifes death and the number on her brow, and that he is still trying to add to his body count and infamy even after his death. Out of bullets, Patricia strangles Frank to death, but Frank in spirit form rips Patricias spirit from her body, forcing Bartlett to follow them. Bartlett grabs Patricias ghost, while Frank makes it to Heaven, where he is reunited with Cyrus and Stuart, along with his wife Debra. Bartlett and Patricias spirits claim they will now go back to claim more lives, but the portal to Heaven quickly changes to a demoniclooking appearance and they are both dragged to Hell by a giant wormlike creature. Frank learns it is not yet his time and is sent back to his body as Debras spirit tells him to be happy. Frank and Lucy fall in love. Lucy is now able to see ghosts as well. Frank later begins demolishing the unfinished dream house and building a life with Lucy while the moroselooking ghost of Dammers is riding around in the sheriffs car. Frank and Lucy then enjoy their picnic.