The family Carter from the Usa from a place called Texas moves to a small ghost town called Salem in the state of Alabama.It is a family of a mother and a father and of 2 children a boy and a girl called Jacob and Sharon.Their father Brandon works as a truck driver to deliver packages and their mother Shirley works as a waitress in a cafe. Their father mostly goes out for his work to travel a lot and to drive on the roads to bring packages to people so he hardly sees his family then.His family always misses him but that changes when they start living in Salem when Brandon and Shirley find new jobs.They first love the town Salem where they live but soon Sharon and Jacob see lots of strange and scary things happening on the graveyard next to their new home.A scary tall thin black man with large white eyes and small black pupils lives in a large black dark house next to the graveyard and he is a very strange man who seems to be working a lot at night on his graveyard. And he is the funeral entrepeneur.Sometimes there are bodies missing from the graveyard and Sharon and Jacob dont understand why that is happening.And they soon find out that the people in Salem have a gruesome secret...