Casper the Friendly Ghost, feeling lonely and depressed, decides to kill himself by having a train run over him, forgetting he is already dead. After the train passes through without harming him, he begins to cry. He is approached by a boy and a girl named Johnny and Bonnie who invite him to play, which cheers Casper up.

After a game of ball and jump rope, Bonnie and Johnny introduce Casper to their mother, who screams and tells Casper to leave. Casper picks up his sack and is about to go through the door when a banker opens it. The banker orders Casper to tell the mother he has come for a mortgage payment, but then he realizes that Casper is a ghost. Terrified, he tears up the mortgage which he tells Casper to keep (because he doesn't want to have a "haunted" house on the market) and runs off in fright, so fast that he sets a bridge on fire.

Despondent, Casper decides to go back home to his own family, accepting that he will never be anything but "a scary old ghost without any friends". He is about to leave in despair when the mother picks him up with a smile on her face, accepting him for saving her and the children from having their home repossessed. The short concludes with the mother seeing Casper now wearing schoolboy clothes, Bonnie, and Johnny off to school together.

*The Friendly Ghost (1945)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friendly_Ghost Wikipedia]
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