This new Casper Story is sort of an aftermath to the prequel spin off Casper: A spirited beginning which crosses over with after the ending of the original film Casper 1995.
The story takes place at a couple of years after Casper saved Chris who was trapped in the the Applegate Mansion and a month after the ghosts have moved on to Whipstaff manor having found out that its their legal home where they met Doctor James Harvey and his daughter.

An author's note: I don't own Casper or the characters from the prequel and the original movie, i just done this story as a non profit project for entertainment. If you have seen Casper the movie, then you'll enjoy this story.

Chapter One

March 15 1993.

After taking leave from his work, Tim Carson had spent an entire summer together with his son.
Over those good days he and Chris had become close again.
With things changing for the best, the two of them had decided to join forces with his teacher Sheila Fistergraff in restoring the Applegate Mansion so that they could turn it into a Halloween horror themed attraction as a way of saving the city of Deedstown from economic depression resulting in the town being poor.
After a few months, the attraction had then become a great success thanks to the Ghostly trio and Casper's efforts to provide the scary scenes for paying customers who came to Deedstown from all over the states of America.
Most of them were groups of paranormal investigators who at first got scared off on their encounter with the three crazy ghosts but they put most of their money into studying the ghosts themselves before they stayed around to see the whole of the town.
From that day it was declared as one of the towns best attractions of the year. With that the declaration, it became part of a well known charm in the town as well as the new mini-mall which was built on the other side of the city and the town itself flourished with the two main attractions.

Even Chris Carson, the boy who had befriended Casper the ghost, he was doing so well in his life.
Having introduced his new friend to Jennifer who apologized to Chris that day when the Applegate mansion was going to be blown up things turned out best for him from that day forth. Although Jennifer was scared of Casper, she began to warm up to the little ghost eventually after a few initial shocks from her following visits.
Chris' bullies got sent off to another town after they each got brought down from the trees so that they would get as far away from the ghosts who had given the three of them wedgies. After a while Chris had become a popular person, making a couple new friends who were also interested in ghosts and science fiction, and one of them was even into stories of the supernatural and the paranormal activities as well.
But then Chris had started hanging out more with Jennifer since she regretted hanging with Brock lee and his gang of bullies. In turn, Jennifer had decided to spend her time in hanging out with him and Casper the friendly ghost.
Over the months that followed the two had kept Casper as a secret to share between them.
The following year 1994, Jennifer and Chris had become close to more than being friends since the two had sent a Valentine's day card to each other, eventually Chris and Jennifer went on to become a nice young couple much to Casper's happiness. But then as Chris and Jennifer were hanging out with Casper and the ghostly trio at Applegate Mansion, Jennifer had started to wonder who Casper the ghost was before he became a ghost.
So she spoke about it with her new boyfriend Chris.
The two then decided together to do a private investigation into Casper's history, each of them looking up any articles about the ghost known as Casper on the computers inside the local library.
At first Chris and Jennifer were not having luck finding anything of interest in Deedstown or anywhere in the US until there were a few links that had come up on screen; the links that they had found on the internet's history were of some old stories of an inventor who spoke of his son being a ghost.
The Articles had then revealed that a boy named Casper had once lived in a place called Whipstaff manor in another town called Friendship, Maine which didn't seem to make sense to Chris and Jennifer at first.
But it mattered to the three crazy ghosts of Casper's uncles, having found out that they had a family household in a town called Friendship in Maine, The ghostly trio realized that it might be right for them. So they decided to take up resident there, even though Casper felt bad that he and his uncles would have to leave Applegate mansion to move to Friendship, Maine.

When learning that Casper an the ghostly Trio had to leave Deedstown, Tim Carson and his son Chris had become so disappointed with the fact that they had to leave and that they wouldn't be able to see them again, even Jennifer had admitted that she would miss Casper most of all.
When it came the time for the four ghosts to leave Deedstown so they can move into their home at Whipstaff manor, Casper had promised Chris and Jennifer that he would write to them from time to time and send a letter to them about his new adventures and discoveries in Friendship, Maine.

October, 1996.

It had been almost a full year since Doctor Harvey and his daughter Kat had moved into Whipstaff manor, they had learnt from the authorities earlier that Carrigan Crittenden had died on Halloween night and her body had washed upon the shore.
Doctor Harvey had declared that she owed him a payment for his services which her personal lawyers had taken care of by paying him in advance. They even offered him to stay in the house itself as leverage payment to cover the expenses of Crittenden's debts. Having finally decided to stay in Friendship Maine for the sake of his daughter Kat, Doctor James Harvey had given up his hunt for ghosts to open up his own practice in town as a therapist for the people of Friendship as well as a private practice for any ghosts.

When Whipstaff manor was being sold for a cheap price by the realtors in the real estate business in the town, Doctor Harvey had taken up a lease on the house. That way Doctor Harvey and his daughter Kathleen can stay within the grounds of Whipstaff Manor as a permanent resident in the small town of Friendship Maine.
It was great for Kat as she can stay in town and she could then graduate at Friendship high school as well as live a normal life with her dad, even though if it meant living in peace with three crazy ghosts and having a boy ghost for a friend. Still she was happy to make some friends who had flesh and were still alive as she was and they kept in touch with her which Kat had appreciated, even hung out with them a few times.
After that Halloween night in Whipstaff manor, Kat's whole life had turned around for the better as she had a few good friends who became the best in her life and her father was making a good living having given up his search for her mother since he had seen her last Halloween.
When kat had asked what happened to him, Doctor Harvey said that he had a resolution which inspired him to move on. Whilst he was not doing sessions with daily patients at his office, Doctor Harvey usually got to speak with the Ghostly trio and Casper who provided him with a lot of knowledge about being a ghost.
Taking that knowledge into mind, Doctor Harvey was inspired to write a book about Ghosts.

Deedstown, California.

Back in Deedstown, things had been different for Chris Carson as he was going through his usual school tests.
When not in school he got to hang out and have dinner at the local diner with his new girlfriend Jennifer.
His father Tim had taken some time off work to make up for lost time with his son.
Chris and his father had managed to salvage his toys and belongings which his father had thrown in the trash before he met Casper the next day which was deemed as the incident at Applegate mansion.
Those days were some of the best days as father and son, Tim had found out that his son was improving on his education when he attended the parent teacher conference. Tim had also learned that Chris was looking to become a professional paranormal investigator or a parapsychologist and a psychiatrist as well. So that he can stay true his pursuits in delving into the world of the supernatural.
Eventually whilst still maintaining good terms with his son Chris and his work, Tim Carson had got into dating Chris' teacher Sheila Fistergraff after a while into their project for Applegate mansion.
But the four of them had not heard much from Casper the friendly ghost since they moved to Friendship until Chris had received a letter from Casper himself.

In his letter, Chris had found out a few things that became a part of his new research project, Casper the friendly ghost had confirmed that he was actually the ghost of a young eleven year old boy named Casper McFadden who had died in the winter time at least a hundred years ago.
Upon learning of this information Chris had shared this with his father.
Having read the words of the letter, Tim had become surprised to find out this new information about the ghost that his son had befriended in that time and had saved his son from the bomb in the mansion years ago.
Seeing this as a great idea for a new history project for school, Tim encouraged his son to do some research on the boy Casper. From then on, Chris had begun his project with his girlfriend Jennifer.
They spent a few days researching the name Casper McFadden which had brought up all sorts of old links from the Friendship daily newspapers. Each of them explaining Casper's history as a young son of an Edwardian era Scientist and an eccentric inventor who had lost his only son Casper to Pneumonia when he was eleven years old going on twelve. It further explained that he was reaching the age of twelve when the boy had gone out with his new sled his father bought for him. Casper spent hours playing in the snow for far too long after dark.
The articles went into detail about Casper's death.
When his son got sick, his father John Thomas McFadden had put all that he had into obtain any medical help to save his ill son Casper. His time and his money but it was it was to be in vain, for his son's condition was too severe to cure. After a while Casper then passed away, leaving his father devastated and in pain.

Upon reading this, Chris had begun to think of his relationship with his own father.
He started to feel so sorry for Casper even though he died a long time ago, and he had to become a ghost to keep his father company which would have been his fate if Casper hadn't saved him from the bombing of Applegate Mansion.
When Chris had finally come to his senses, he and Jennifer continued with their research learning about how McFadden had become frightened by his dead son as a ghost.
It stated that through several newspapers in the early Twentieth century, he told his story to the Media about how he was haunted by the ghost of his dead son, and that none of his statements were believed by the people of Friendship Town. After a while, McFadden had decided to use his scientific genius to invent a machine that could turn ghosts back to life as humans again. He called the invention the Lazarus, which is named after the man in the New Testament who was raised by Jesus from the dead.
But within the years that followed, the neighbours had found some strange goings on at Whipstaff manor which then soon resulted in McFadden getting arrested by local authorities after nearly completing his machine.
After being declared clinically insane by the townspeople in Friendship's society who saw his work in resurrection as Sacriligious. McFadden was then sent off to an insane asylum where he died years later before he could fulfil his greatest dream, which was to give the dead another chance at life beside their loved ones.

Once the project was all put together, Chris Carson and his friend Jennifer presented the project to History Class for their historical project, which was met with some intrigue by the teachers.
Jennifer explained that she and Chris had come upon the story of a haunted house called Whipstaff manor in the town of Friendship whilst they were looking for an event for their project. Chris then went on to tell that it was once the home of a hundred year old American scientist who was an engineer and an eccentric inventor of prominent inventions in the Victorian period before the turn of the Edwardian period.
Jennifer then explained further in checking all the facts at the Library before putting it all together.
The two had come to a conclusion that The inventor known as J.T. McFadden, although he was convicted as a man driven insane by the grief and loss of his son Casper he was still a great man of his time in the 20th century.
After a week the teachers including Sheila Fistergraff had given the two a B+ on a job well done on their project.

Later the night.

Chris and Jennifer celebrated their good grade by going out on a second date on Friday night.
The two had a great time that night before they received a visit from the Ghostly Trio who revealed that they had entered a truce with their new fleshie tenants at their home Whipstaff manor.

"So you've got some new tenants living at your mansion? Who are they?" asked Chris.

"One of them is Doctor J. Harvey." Fatso answered.

"Doctor Harvey, you mean Doctor James Harvey the ghost Therapist?" asked Jennifer.

It was Stretch who had floated up to Jennifer when he spoke to her.
"Wait a minute, you know the Doctor personally?"

"Well not personally but Chris read about him on the news and I just saw a new cover about him recently, he was said to have been looking for the spirit of his wife." Jennifer explained to Stretch when Stinky floated up to speak.
"Oh yeah, you're referring to Mrs Amelia Harvey I remember her. She was a real angel."

"Yeah she sure was. Eh Stretch?" said Fatso.

"Alright guys, that's enough talk about the past, lets give the pretty woman a chance to rest in peace. Anyways the doctor's daughter was a nice person, she's the one who helped our nephew rediscover his past Childhood whilst residing in our household."

"Oh yes, Jennifer and I had read about Casper's childhood on the internet and we did a history project on him as well." said Chris.

"Yeah and it was said that his dad had three older brothers who were troublemakers just like you three, so he was your little brother before you all had died at some point in the 19th century, I guess family does its bad eggs." said Jennifer.

"Thank you." The ghostly trio said in unision, which made Chris laugh a bit.

"Still there was one thing that I felt sorry for about Casper, it was when he got sick with pneumonia whilst playing with his new Sled on a winter day which explained how he had become a ghost." Chris said looking at Jennifer and to the Ghostly trio.
"Well its all in the past and Casper knows his own identity since we're officially his uncles as it turns out." Stinky stated to Chris and Jennifer as he floated beside Stretch and Fatso.

"So who is this Doctor's daughter again?" asked Jennifer.

"Her name is Kat Harvey." Stretch replied to Jennifer's question when Chris checked time.
He realised that they had to go, so he spoke. "Uh guys, I'm sorry to cut this chat short but we have to get going right away, Jennifer's parents might be expecting her home soon, so I'll be seeing you guys." Chris said, before he took Jennifer's hand in his own.
The two took a few steps back before they turned to head off.
The ghostly trio said their goodbyes to the two lovebirds as soon as they left.

Jennifer heard their goodbye as she walked off with Chris at her side, she gave a chuckle before she spoke to Chris about his friends. "You know your friends are such crazy beings for ghosts."

Chris drew a small grin before he spoke. "Yes, but they are quite nice once you get to know them." Jennifer drew a small grin in humour whilst they walked along the street. They continued to walk along the street across the town as they spoke together about their hopes and their plans for the good hour of the evening until they eventually got close to her house.

As the two were standing on the front lawn outside her house.

It was when Jennifer thought about an idea as they were approaching the front door. "Hey Chris, I was wondering about something."
"Yes, what were you thinking about?" Chris asked looking at Jennifer.
"I was thinking of taking a road trip to Friendship, in Maine. That way we can see who this Kat Harvey is and maybe meet her father Doctor Harvey." she explained to Chris. "A road trip to Friendship Maine, it sounds good but you should know that I might have to ask my dad if I could go with you to Friendship Maine."
Jennifer then filled Chris in on what her parents did before the two of them went out on their date.
"I've already spoken to my parents about the Road trip to Friendship, They were planning on visiting some old friends in Maine anyways so my dad went and called your dad to ask if you could join us."
"And what did he say?" asked Chris. "He said that as long as you are with me on this road trip and that you make sure to contact him when you get to Maine." Jennifer answered which made Chris smile for a short moment. Jennifer then stepped up to him before she planted her hand on the back of Chris' neck and she kissed him on his lips.
Much to Chris' surprise, Jennifer withdrew from him with a smile. "So is monday at 10 o'clock okay with you?"
Chris was still speechless from the kiss that Jennifer gave him before he spoke. "Yeah its a date."
Jennifer drew a grin at him as she spoke. "Okay good, so do you want to come inside and call your dad."
"Yeah sure." Chris replied with that, the two went up to the doorway.
Opening the door the two went inside her house. As soon as they were inside, Jennifer guided Chris to the living room where there was a phone on the counter, Chris called his dad asking him to come and pick him up at Jennifer's house. Taking the address to Jennifer's house from Chris, Tim hung up and then went off to go and pick his son up from his girlfriend's place.

It was almost twenty five minutes later, Tim Carson was in his car as it was arriving on the street in front of Jennifer's house. Chris was sitting and chatting with Jennifer and her parents who were hospitable to Chris as they knew him as the boy who ran with ghosts in the dark.
When they heard the honk of the horn outside, Chris turned around to look out the window.
Realising that its his dad Chris turned back to Jennifer's parents and he spoke.
"That's my dad, Mrs Elliot. I have to go now, thanks for the hospitality."
"It was no bother Chris, since you'll be coming along on our road trip to see old friends near Friendship I might as well get to know you first before you join us on the road trip next week. So I expect you to be on your best behavior with my daughter young man." said Jennifer's mom. Chris looked at Jennifer's mom before he replied to her. "I promise you that I will be. Your daughter Jennifer has been a very nice person to me when I had no other friends, and my mom was the best before she passed away."

Jennifer's mom looked up on Chris with a sympathetic look as she had seen Chris alone a few times at school, so she spoke out. "Hmm I can understand how hard it must have been without your mother to look after you. Anyways you better get over to your dad's car before he decides to come inside the house."
Chris giggled standing up from the couch before he picked up his jacket on the way to the door.
Jennifer followed him to the door, escorting him outside when Chris opened the door and he stepped outside.
Turning around he waved to Jennifer who returned the wave and then she closed the door behind him as she drew a grin at him, afterwards Chris walked off towards his dad's car where tim waited inside for his son to get inside the car so that they can go back home for the night.

That's chapter one done for the day. so I shall get to work on Chapter two of Casper: After Halloween night, where Kat Harvey will be getting the chance to meet the two who had befriended Casper in Deedstown and then they'll explore the start of a friendship between the three people and the ghost who haunts Whipstaff Manor. So be sure to leave your comments on the story and share it with others. Thank you all