The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is a 1966 American
comedy-drama film starring
Don Knotts as Luther Heggs, a newspaper typesetter who spends a night in a haunted house, which is located in the fictitious community of Rachel,
Kansas. The
working title was
Running Scared. The actual title is presumably a humorous variation of the 1947 film,
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.