Film student Alex Wright and his friends Jennifer Parker, Trevor Thompson, Tessa Hamill, and Jared Lee all decide to produce a documentary about the original ''Grave Encounters'' film, which the entire public aside from Alex believes to be fake. Alex posts an online plea for any information about the film and receives a message from someone named "DeathAwaits6". The message leads him to the mother of Sean Rogerson, the actor who played Lance in ''Grave Encounters''. She believes that Sean is still alive but they discover from her caretaker that she has severe dementia and does not realize that her son is actually dead.