Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty), a selfish and cruel woman, grows angered when she finds that her deceased father’s will only leaves her with an old house, Whipstaff Manor. Infuriated, she tosses the will into a fireplace but it is rescued by her attorney and close associate Dibbs (Eric Idle). Dibbs discovers one of the will’s pages has an inscription on it describing treasure hidden in the manor. Carrigan and Dibbs visit the old manor, but find it is haunted by four ghosts, Casper, a seemingly friendly ghost and his three taunting uncles, the Ghostly Trio: Stretch, Stinky & Fatso. The two try to remove the ghosts using Father Guido Sarducci to attempt an exorcism (it doesn’t go well), Ghostbuster Ray Stantz to bust them (they scare him away), and even try a demolition crew to destroy the building. Casper, who is lonely, watches a news report about a therapist to the dead, Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman). His daughter, Kat (Christina Ricci), is seen on television and Casper instantly falls in love with her. Casper manages to play the news report to Carrigan who decides to contact Dr. Harvey.

Portrayed by Cathy Moriarty. The film’s villain and she is thus very nasty and selfish. Her late father had a huge fortune, but he didn’t leave any of it to her, which deeply angers her. Therefore, upon discovering that the old mansion that he did leave to her may contain treasure, she becomes obsessed with possessing the treasure for herself. At the end of the film, she dies and becomes a ghost, but is tricked into crossing over.

She is unmarried as evidence by the fact that she is referred to as “Miss Crittenden.” The fact that her father owned Whipstaff Manor seems to indicate that either she and Casper are distantly related or that someone in her family bought the mansion from someone in his. In her ghostly form, she tended to use stereotypical “evil laughter” frequently, although the only time she used it when she was alive was when she was trying to run Dibs down with her car.

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