People are 'today years old' after discovering secret about Casper the Friendly Ghost

Casper the Friendly Ghost is simply a fictional quality we each cognize and emotion from our childhoods. But present radical learned a concealed astir the tone and it's sent everyone online into a meltdown

Everyone knows and loves Casper the Friendly Ghost.

The fictional quality graced our childhoods aft being developed by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo earlier making his archetypal TV quality successful 1945. He was initially intended for a children's storybook but soon made it onto our telly screens.

So portion Casper is known arsenic the cute ghost-child with a New York accent who inhabits a haunted house, radical are lone conscionable realising 1 other item astir the lovable character. Since it was shared connected X, formerly Twitter, everyone's wholly shocked.

In a station connected the Today Years Old account, which boasts 1.1million fans, it was revealed Casper the Friendly Ghost is much than a spirit. It wrote: "How aged were you earlier you realised Casper the Friendly Ghost was conscionable Richie Rich without hairsbreadth and clothes?"

The photograph shows Casper identical to a cartoon of the "world's richest boy" Richie Rich, who lives successful Chicago with his billionaire parents Richard Sr. and Regina. The quality from the deed 1994 movie, played by Macaulay Culkin, enjoys a luxurious but lonely beingness with the attraction of his butler Herbert Cadbury.

Since it was shared, the station rapidly racked up 172,000 views with 1,500 likes and dozens of comments. And it's harmless to accidental galore radical judge their full puerility was a lie, portion others saw it coming aft an occurrence from The Simpsons.

One wrote: "Learned 1 infinitesimal ago." While different X idiosyncratic said: "Today years old," a 3rd posted: "Thanks for ruining my childhood." And a 4th chimed in: "Omg." Someone other pointed out: "True enough, they were ne'er successful the aforesaid spot astatine the aforesaid time."

And different X, formerly Twitter, idiosyncratic claimed it was revealed successful the 2nd bid of The Simpsons who "called it". Meanwhile theories online suggest determination are facial similarities betwixt the 2 characters, but determination is nary authoritative link.