Joey DeAngelo has just moved to Boston, and his classmates aren't as accepting as he'd hoped. On a field trip to visit The Dartmouth--a ship involved in the 1773 Boston Tea Party--Joey takes a slight detour from the class. Tank, the class bully, follows Joey to give him more trouble, and the boys definitely find it when they discover a ghost! Tank and Joey decide to return to the ship to see if they can find the ghost again and are transported back...

When Joey and friend Gil are caught in a storm while night-fishing off the coast of Massachusetts, they find shelter in a lighthouse inhabited by a very unfriendly ghost.

While searching for Blackbeard's treasure on Star Island, New Hampshire, Joey and Tank encounter the pirate ghosts that protect it.