What was Casper’s name before he died?
Casper didn’t have a last name until the 1995 live-action movie. His name is Casper McFadden, and he’s the ghost of a 12-year old boy who died of pneumonia. This is the first time the story of how he became a ghost was told and the first time he was depicted as a human as well.
Is Casper the ghost a real story?
3. While the original comics never gave Casper a real origin story (he was born a ghost to ghost parents), the movie decided to give him a tragic backstory: He died of pneumonia when he was a young boy due to the cold weather, leaving his inventor father devastated.
