The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House

Four enterprising friends spend a summer investigating an old, supposedly haunted house near one boy’s home. Their curiosity draws them into the vacant building and a chain of dangerous and comic incidents: daring entries, narrow escapes, a hidden prisoner and an escape, a lost automobile and repeated flights, a pursuit and capture in a mountain pass, and a final confrontation with those behind the eerie reports. The story stresses practical courage, teamwork, and clearheaded problem-solving as the boys gradually uncover ordinary explanations for the strange events and bring the mystery to a plain resolution.