Dr. Joyce Reardon was a parapsychologist at the Beamont University. She and a group of people with psychic abilities went to investigate a house called Rose Red in Seattle, Washington. After experiencing many paranormal events and discovering Rose Red is truly haunted, Joyce is cosumed by the house and becomes trapped there. She had met her demise when she was killed by the ghosts of Vic Kandinsky, Deanna Petrie, Patricia Waterman, Carl Miller, Kevin Bollinger, Sukeena, Nick Hardaway, and Pam Asbury.