The Friendly Ghost is a Famous Studios cartoon released on 16 November 1945 as part of its Noveltoons series of animated short films.

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.

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.

[6] The release of this short in 1945, according to Nathalie Op de Beeck, coincided with the end of World War II and subsequently reflected the times with its imagery as she asserts that "[t]he film links supernatural horror to an acknowledgement of actual weaponry".