Brilliant, enigmatic scientist Dr. Helen Magnus has the proof that the frightening beings that we dismiss as figments of our imagination are indeed real. With her new recruits, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Zimmerman, her fearless daughter Ashley and quirky tech-whiz Henry, Magnus uses a unique combination of instinct, medicine and cutting edge technology to seek, study and protect the clandestine population of strange and sometimes terrifying beings known as 'abnormals' which hide among humans.