Detective John Lancy is your average every day cop working for the Boston Police Department. On one particular day on February 2nd 1925, he takes a missing person's case that soon turns into a brutal homicide and is covered up by his superiors. Detective Lancy grows suspicious and is haunted by these events; over a few days he is troubled by a reoccurring nightmare, and is being watched by Men in Black from the Bureau of Investigation keeping tabs on him. Lancy soon takes it upon himself to unearth the mystery surrounding the Ostermann Family, a name he picked up during his short lived investigation. He then journeys from Boston on up to Maine and is taken into a dark underworld of horrors beyond the grasp of our perceived worldly reality that dare not be mentioned...

After the death of his wife, Simon Fuller moves to a new home, with his two daughters. One day, his daughter introduces a new imaginary friend - Nathaniel. She 'gives' Nathaniel to her father, telling him he can keep the boy "forever". Simon tries to find out who the boy really is, but is unable to. Questioning his daughter, she tells him, again, that it's Nathaniel, but he prefers to be called by his nickname, Mr. Boogie.