Plot SynopsisThe film opens as a car drives along the highway into the small resort town of Bridgeport, California at the foot of the Sierra (79 miles from Lake Tahoe on a road sign viewed during the credits).The young boy was carefully and delicately manicuring his nails.Inside their shabby but neatly-kept shack, the Kid was instructed to: "Put the quarter in the gas meter.While wearing the locket, Harry stripped down and entered the freezing water, but found himself strangling and drowning when the locket fought back, sensing the threat of its own impending destruction.The operators of the yacht had previously been arrested for drug trafficking in Bogota, Colombia - they had suspected ties to the Cali Cartel.Originally, the film""s script noted the film""s title o be "Ghost Smashers." Co-writers Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis designed he film to take advantage of the talents of otherSaturday Night Live (SNL)cast members, including John Belushi (who died before the film""s making of a drug overdose in March of 1982) and Bill Murray.