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In 2024, Lydia Deetz hosts a paranormal talk show called Ghost House and is estranged from her daughter Astrid after her husband and Astrid's father Richard died while in the Amazon. Astrid also refuses to believe that her mother can see ghosts. While taping an episode, Lydia sees Betelgeuse, who tried to marry her,[b] in the audience. Lydia's stepmother, Delia, later informs Lydia that her father Charles was killed by a shark as the family travel to Winter River, Connecticut, for his funeral. At the wake, Lydia's boyfriend and producer, Rory, pressures her to marry him on Halloween and hesitantly agrees. Meanwhile, Astrid meets local boy Jeremy Frazier, who invites her to spend the holiday with him.
In the Netherworld, Betelgeuse manages a call centre consisting of shrunken-headed employees and remains obsessed with marrying Lydia, revealing that he has a psychic connection with her and has been stalking her. Former actor-turned-detective Wolf Jackson informs Betelgeuse that his ex-wife, occultist Delores LaFerve, has resurfaced and gone on a murder spree, draining the souls of the dead while searching for him. The couple met during the Black Plague in Italy when Delores married and then poisoned Betelgeuse as part of an immortality ritual; he then murdered her before succumbing.
Astrid realizes she has inherited her mother's psychic abilities and discovers Jeremy is a ghost. He persuades her to accompany him to the Netherworld so she can see her father, in reality, a trick to exchange souls so he can live again. Lydia learns from local realtor Jane Butterfield that Jeremy murdered his parents in 2001 and died trying to escape the police when they came to arrest him; she reluctantly summons Betelgeuse, who reveals his deception, and agrees to marry him in exchange for him taking her to the Netherworld to save Astrid. Betelgeuse disguises his lead employee, Bob, as himself and uses him as a decoy. Wolf discovers Betelgeuse has brought a living person into their world and launches a manhunt for him, capturing the disguised Bob. Delores meets Bob at the police station while continuing her search for Betelgeuse, draining his soul.
As Betelgeuse and Lydia search for Astrid, Jeremy escorts her through the afterlife's bureaucracy, then reveals his true intent to Astrid, who is taken to the "Soul Train" to be permanently sent to the "Great Beyond". Lydia saves Astrid right before the train departs. They escape through a portal to Saturn's moon Titan, where Richard, working as a civil servant, saves them from one of its Sandworms. During a mourning ceremony for Charles, Delia is bitten by a pair of asps that she was assured were defanged. She arrives in the Netherworld and summons Betelgeuse to help find Charles. He agrees in exchange for help finding Lydia. Meanwhile, Richard shows Lydia and Astrid how to return to the living world while Betelgeuse voids Jeremy's visa and sends him to the "Fires of Damnation".
Returning home, Astrid apologizes to Lydia for not believing her abilities. The duo arrives at the church for Lydia and Rory's wedding, but Betelgeuse crashes the ceremony with Delia. Betelgeuse injects Rory with "truth serum", forcing him to admit that he never believed in Lydia's abilities and is only a profiteering gold digger. As Betelgeuse begins his marriage to Lydia, Wolf and his officers appear, but he keeps them at bay. Delores then arrives to exact her revenge just as Astrid summons a Sandworm that Betelgeuse tricks into devouring her and Rory. Astrid then reveals that Betelgeuse's marriage contract is void because of how he illegally brought her mother into the Netherworld as Lydia banishes him back there.
Wolf escorts Delia back to the Netherworld after she bids farewell to her daughter and Astrid. She reunites with Charles as he is about to board the Soul Train to the Great Beyond and they depart together. Lydia ends Ghost House to spend more time with Astrid, but still has nightmares about Betelgeuse.