The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 1966
Directed by Alan Rafkin | Starring: Skip Homeier, Joan Staley, Lurene Tuttle, Don Knotts
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.