Strange goings on happen in the Walton home as Elizabeth apprensively approaches her 13th birthday. She is torn between the prospect of becoming a woman, or staying a little girl. She is also moody, a fact that her parents discuss and are concerned about, and while Elizabeth secretly listens, a vase moves, falls and breaks. Other similar, strange things continue to happen and Corabeth suggests maybe it is a poltergeist. Things reach crisis point when at Elizabeth's party, Aimee starts telling a ghost story and all sorts of things happen. Olivia tells the frightened Elizabeth that it is she who is controlling all the weird things and that she must let it all go now. Elizabeth confesses to being afraid of growing older and watching her parents grow older and die. When Olivia is able to reass