While most of the setting is authentic, the production company could not find a suitable crypt in the Danville, Kentucky cemetary, so the climactic sequence was shot in a fake tomb constructed in the actual graveyard. The phony mausoleum became a local attraction after the film aired.
Loosely based on the children's book "The Ghost Belonged to Me" by Richard Peck. The character of Blossom Culp went on to appear in three more supernatural-themed novels.