I don't know about "major", but I'll grant it's an influence. Still scratching my head at why anyone would think ill of Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons, though.
Not thinking ill of Caspar the ghost. What I was trying to point out was that Hollywood depictions of the supernatural are very different from the true supernatural, and that the result of this is that the average person is clueless in their opinions about the supernatural because they’re looking for the wrong thing. They’re looking for a cartoon that doesn’t exist.