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Four high school friends are able to do two things no one else on the planet can do... talk with dead people and time travel to the past. It's early summer and boredom is setting in. They have just returned from an adventure where they traveled through time back to 1966 to solve a mystery and save a popular high school girl's life. Kelly, Scott, Austin and Zoey gather in Scott's lab, listening to the old radio that Thomas Edison had invented and called "The Telephone to the Dead." As they slowly turn the dial they hear hundreds of sad, lonely voices of souls that have passed but apparently never moved on, pleading for help. When they first discovered the radio in Kelly's aunt's garage, they had been touched by the cries and pleas coming from its speakers, but they had no way to go back in time to help them. That is, until Scott reveals an invention of his own... a time travel app. A very young girl speaking in Spanish cries out to them, saying her whole family has been murdered on an island just off the east coast of Florida. Kelly understands a little Spanish, so she is able to communicate with the girl, but not able to get some very important details. It's difficult to investigate a crime that hasn't happened yet. The teens look the island up on Google Maps and see that it is completely deserted which contradicts the story they're getting from the Spirit Radio. But it's a beautiful island called Crystal Key with a stretch of beach that, unlike Ft. Myers Beach, is not crowded with tourists and kids. The teens decide to pop in, spend a nice day on the beach, check out the island to see if there is any truth to the girl's story, then pop right back. It sounds like a great plan. From the very beginning, things go wrong when Scott miscalculates their landing and they end up splashing into the Atlantic Ocean. After swimming for their lives, they collapse on the beach that is, indeed, beautiful. But it isn't deserted. They find the little girl, her family and a hal