Haunted Spooks is a 1920 American silent Southern Gothic comedy horror film, produced and co-directed by Hal Roach,[1] starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis.

The short film has a comedic version of a typical haunted house tale, and a dispute over a family's inheritance.

It tells him that his niece Mildred will inherit the house and plantation, provided she lives there for a year with her husband.

Firstly using a gun he finds on a path, which turns out to be a water-pistol; then standing in front of a tram, which takes a sudden turn; then he ties a rock around his neck and jumps off a low bridge into a lake, but this fails as it is only inches deep; he then picks a second bridge, but lands in a boat; and finally stands in front of a car, which stops in time, but contains the lawyer from the earlier scene.

They then drive off to the mansion, with some jokes en route: the gesticulating passengers in the car in front appear to be signalling right then left, preventing overtaking; the birds in the back seat pecking his head.

[1] Three years after this film was made, Harold Lloyd married his co-star Mildred Davis, whose brother Jack was a member of Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies.

The scenes at the haunted mansion were filmed at Hal Roach Studios, in Culver City, California.

The film had a lot of racist humor in it, revolving mainly around the frightened black servants in the house showing then-stereotypical behavior such as shaking knees and wide eyes.