Casper

A lonely young ghost befriends the daughter of a paranormal therapist when the pair move into his crumbling Maine mansion to clear out its spectral residents.

Casper follows Casper, a gentle young ghost who has haunted Whipstaff Manor in Friendship, Maine, for decades while longing for a real friend. When Dr. James Harvey, a therapist who specializes in helping restless spirits cross over, accepts a job to rid the estate of its ghosts, he arrives with his teenage daughter Kat. Casper immediately takes a liking to Kat and reveals himself, startling her at first but quickly winning her trust with his kindness and loneliness. The mansion’s other permanent residents—Casper’s boisterous ghostly uncles Stretch, Stinkie, and Fatso—delight in terrifying any living visitors and resist Harvey’s efforts. Meanwhile the greedy Carrigan Crittenden, who inherited the property, schemes with her associate Dibs to claim a rumored hidden treasure inside the house. Kat and Casper’s growing friendship begins to soften the isolation both have felt since losing loved ones.

As Harvey tries to communicate with the uncooperative uncles, Kat explores the manor and learns more about Casper’s human past and the circumstances of his death. Casper uses the mansion’s mysterious inventions and his own limited ghostly powers to help Kat navigate school and the adults’ conflicts, while the uncles continue their chaotic pranks. Carrigan’s treasure hunt turns dangerous, forcing Casper and Kat to protect each other and the house. Harvey confronts his own unresolved grief over his late wife, finding unexpected common ground with the spirits he was hired to remove. In the climax the characters race to keep the manor and its secrets from falling into the wrong hands, allowing Casper a rare chance at the ordinary joys he has missed. The story closes on the bonds formed between the living and the friendly ghost who simply wanted companionship.