Keitaro, an introverted college student with spiritual powers, takes a part-time job as a tutor for a girl whose abilities greatly exceed his own.
Along with Eiko and Yayoi, Keitaro visits the shrine where his grandmother serves as priestess — and haunted dolls dwell beneath its treasure house.
Leaving behind a frightened Keitaro, Eiko and Yayoi head to a temple where a vengeful goddess and the spirits of children are said to reside.
With Yayoi in tow, Keitaro and Eiko go to their college orientation. Eiko convinces Keitaro to join her in attending a class on scary urban legends.
Keitaro attends a welcome party for his college's travel club. But when its leader invites him to an after-party, he suddenly gets a strange feeling.
The trio goes on a riverside camping trip. That night, after making a promise with Keitaro, Eiko witnesses a ghostly figure fall from a bridge.
After Keitaro decides to help Yayoi gather spirits, Eiko drives them to a famously haunted spot: a road tunnel where ghosts of women often appear.
Keitaro begins tutoring a cutesy and clumsy high schooler named Ai. But he soon learns that her lack of luck makes her an easy target for ghosts.
As the group tries to flee from a powerful ghost, Keitaro and Yayoi suddenly find themselves trapped in an elevator with the spirit's victims.
In need of a way to catch the god that wants to marry Ai, Yayoi suggests touring haunted spots throughout Japan to capture more powerful spirits.
At a ruined castle, Yayoi and Keitaro encounter an old woman who guides them toward a waterfall, but Keitaro gets separated along the way.
After turning the tables on the old woman, Yayoi hurries to Keitaro's side and unleashes a heavy-hitting spirit to deal with the terrible curse.
On their way to the haunted tunnel in Tokyo, Yayoi and her friends take a detour to retrieve a Graduate spirit who has uncanny regenerative powers.
After getting separated from her friends at the tunnel, Eiko encounters a young girl shooting a video. They quickly find themselves caught in a curse.
Yayoi contends with the terrifying tunnel spirit by summoning the ghost of an imprisoned soldier, who weakens his adversary with each weapon he draws.
With Keitaro weakened following the tunnel ordeal, Eiko begins to feel uneasy. Yayoi accompanies her to the grave of a well-known vengeful spirit.
Eiko and Yayoi enter the house they want to buy for storing Graduate spirits. As they explore, they see visions of the horrors that occurred there.
After weakening the final so-called angel, Yayoi and Eiko head upstairs to confront it and remove the terrible curse on Eiko's stomach.
Needing to reclaim a Graduate spirit before heading to the old water gate, Yayoi and her friends visit an abandoned love hotel that has an evil past.
A famous spiritualist guides Keitaro and his friends around the old water gate. They soon notice a young boy drawing pictures by himself.
Yayoi and her friends must steal the sketchbook from the vengeful ghost to free themselves from his curse and safely summon a Graduate spirit.
After using the ghost from the castle to quell the courtesan's fiery rage, Yayoi's group discovers an eerie object left behind by the spiritualist.
Yayoi worries about Ai after seeing a disturbing news report. Later, she encounters a strange schoolmate who says she is also interested in ghosts.
The teacher's vengeful spirit continues chasing Yayoi and the class rep through the ghostly school. Later, Yayoi has a realization about Dorothy.
Before Keitaro's group sets out for Kyoto to confront Ai's god, Yayoi describes a plan to create a magical sigil that covers the entire city.