A mysterious and terrifying figure named Jack wields a bloody knife. He has already assassinated a mother, father, and young daughter in the middle of the night, and his next victim is a baby boy in the house's top floor room. He wipes his knife's blood with a handkerchief as he walks up to the boy's room. He plunges his knife into the boy's crib, only to be replaced by a teddy bear. As he exits the house and makes his way up the hill, Jack uses his nose to search for the child.
Mr. and Mrs. Owens, the graveyard's ghosts, who have been dead for hundreds of years, examine the child with interest. At that moment, they hear Jack pounding on the cemetery gates in an attempt to get in. Mr. and Mrs. Owens initially believe he is the child's father or mother, but are surprised when a flickering figure appears, accompanied by two other figures, and tells them to protect their son. A panicked flickering figure appears to be Mrs. Owens's dead baby boy, and she immediately recognizes it as her dead daughter. "Are you buried in the graveyard?" asks Caius Pompeius, a 2000-year-old Roman ghost. Mr. Owens believes they have recently died.
Mr. and Mrs. Owens, who have always desired a child of their own, decide to adopt the boy, even though he is alive, and they are dead. They completely obscure Jack's vision with their ghost bodies, so that all he can see is a mist. The stranger takes Jack out of the cemetery and leads him to the ghosts, who are debating what to do with the child.
They should not take the boy in, according to Josiah Worthington, a ghost who was once a wealthy politician. Caius Pompeius points out that they will be unable to feed him. Mother Slaughter inquires about his future residence. It would be good for the boy to have "Freedom of Graveyard" from Mrs. Owens, she says. Silas, the stranger, nods in agreement. In the absence of a biological father and the absence of a biological mother, Silas — who is neither alive nor dead — will act as the child's guardian, with Mr. and Mrs. Owen serving as the child's parents. They give the child the name Nobody Owens and debate what to do with him well into the morning.
At dawn, The Lady on Grey comes out, and everyone in the graveyard recognizes her as the person they met at death. The Lady on the Grey advises the ghosts to be charitable, which persuades them to keep Nobody and grant him Graveyard Freedom. When Silas returns to Nobody's old house, he examines the bodies of his deceased relatives. Meanwhile, Jack is enraged that he didn't kill Nobody. He makes the decision not to inform the Convocation of his failure. When he hears the sirens, Jack gets up and walks away.
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