The Tennysons come upon a bizarre Christmas village in Death Valley, run by a Christmas-obsessed man (Mr. Jingles), who thinks Grandpa Max is Santa Claus and proceeds to trap him. As Ben and Gwen explore, they learn about a strange curse on the village, in which the village was frozen at Christmas, in the 1930s and are turned into elves. But when Ben delivers all the gifts that had been made, time catches up to the village instantly.