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Just before Christmas, the Walton family becomes aware of a "spirit" who has been running loose on the Mountain and committing acts of petty thievery. Cousin Jeffrey (Keith Mitchell) locates the elusive thief, a young man named Paul (Ned Bellamy), and becomes his friend -- and nevermind that Paul happens to be a runaway German prisoner of war. And elsewhere on the Mountain, Cindy (Leslie Winston) and Corabeth (Ronnie Claire Edwards) cause a considerable amount of embarrassment for the menfolk with their Christmas-gift requests.