平凡女人杰莎贝尔（莎拉·斯努克 Sarah Snook 饰）与男友普瑞斯顿（马克·韦伯 Mark Webber 饰）即将迎来新的生命，当他们准备搬入新家之际，却遭遇一场突如其来的车祸。这场灾难让当下两个最重要的生命从杰莎贝尔的人生中消失，痛不欲生的她拨通了久未谋面的父亲的电话，坐着轮椅回到了位于路易斯安那的老家。某天，杰莎偶然在床下找到一卷母亲当年生她之前录下的影像，画面中妈妈期望女儿能在18岁那年看到录影带，而且用塔罗牌预测了杰莎未来的运势。预言中有一个看不见的灵魂逡巡在杰莎的身旁，而对方却满怀恶意企图将杰莎赶出房子。 　　在此之后，诡异的梦境和神秘事件接连向杰莎袭来，而她将遭遇最为恐怖的一段噩梦体验……Jessabelle "Jessie" Laurent is pregnant and accepts to move to the house of her boyfriend to raise a family of their own. However they have a car accident where her boyfriend and her baby die. Jessie is seriously wounded and trapped to a wheelchair, and the direction of the hospital asks her to contact her estranged father to help her. Leon Laurent brings his daughter to his house in Louisiana and lodges her in her mother's room. Jessie snoops around the room and finds a videotape where her mother Kate Laurent is pregnant and reads tarot cards to her. She tells that Jessie would never left Louisiana; she is attracted by water; and another woman wants her out of the house. However Leon arrives and destroys the tape. On the next morning, Jessie watches another videotape when her father is out of the house, and her mother talks about the man that had taught her to read cards, Moses. Jessie is haunted by the ghost of a woman and her father discovers the two other videotapes she has hidden. When he tries to destroy them, something happens to him and he is burnt to death trapped in a shed. During the funeral, Jessie meets her high-school friend Preston Sanders, who is unhappily married. Preston decides to help Jessie after watching the videotapes. Who might be haunting Jessie?