The one thing that all generations, from Gen X to Gen Z, have in common is their affection for Scooby-doo. You might not recognise the lyrics of the current chart-topping song, but you’d definitely identify Scooby-music doo’s from a mile away.
Askids, these meddling kids were responsible for a lot of our good night’s sleep by refuting ghost beliefs. Our favourite, The Mystery Inc., would reveal the person posing as a ghost at the end of each episode.
For nearly half a century, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo have been the friends we need. This cartoon’s enduring appeal stems from the fact that it introduced us to characters with whom we can identify. Velma and Shaggy reassured us that being different is fine.
Velma has served as a role model for students who have felt too geeky to fit in. Her intelligence, combined with Shaggy’s and Scooby’s amazing timing, has always saved the day. Shaggy’s perpetually hungry hipster persona stands in stark contrast to Fred and Daphne’s.
Fred and Daphne are portrayed as grownups who are mature and responsible. Scooby-Doo was conceived during the Vietnam War, when political tensions were at an all-time high, as the old saying goes; great art is inspired in times of crisis. Let’s take a look at eleven of the creepy monsters who might have gotten away if it weren’t for the nosy kids.
Ben Ravencroft
While working on a case at the museum, the gang meets Ben Ravencroft. Velma was a huge fan of his writings. Ravencroft appreciated Velma’s renowned brilliance at the same time. After deceiving The Mystery Inc.
into locating Sarah’s grimoire, he unleashed his warlock abilities. He had the ability to light fires and breathe life into inanimate objects. In terms of strength, he was far behind his forefathers. In the end, we believe he deserved to be confined for all eternity inside her spell book.
The Oakhaven horror writer fantasised about world dominance. To accomplish his goal, he devised a complex scheme to deceive Velma and the gang. Unfortunately, he was not the only villain in townthat hadsomething hidden up his sleeve.
The Mayor and other townspeople had spread rumors about the vengeful ghost of Sarah Ravencroft. They went around haunting people to increase tourist footfall in Oakhaven. It is villains like Ravencroft who gave a bad name to adults over the age of thirty.
Ravencroft invites the group to his homeland, Oakhaven, in the episode Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost. He meets up with the gang to help them solve a museum mystery. Ben is outraged when he arrives at Oakhaven and sees his forefathers’ reputation being ruined.
In their concert, the Hex Girls play songs about Sarah Ravencroft. Sarah was executed in the sixteenth century after being suspected of witchcraft. Ben claims that the accusations that she was a witch were unfounded. He explains to the gang that she was a Wiccan healer who used herbs to assist people.
Because of her unusual character, she was misunderstood and unfairly accused. Ravencroft says that Sarah had a book with the details of her patients, which will prove her innocence. The Mayor apologizes to Ravencroft. He confesses about finding Sarah’s headstone, but her body and book were nowhere to be found.
Velma soon figures out the location of the book. Ravencroft reveals his true nature and intentions once the book is found. It is revealed that the book is Sarah’s Grimoire. She was an evil witch who was trapped inside her book by the Wiccans.
After unlocking his warlock powers, Ben releases Sarah, but is saddened to learn that she has no plans to rule the world with him at her side. She plans to annihilate it. Ben tries to return her to the book, but only a Wiccan is capable of doing so.
Thorn, a Hex Girls member, is a Wiccan descendant who reads the ritual in the book that would take her back in time. In the process, Sarah takes Ben into the novel with her. The book is eventually burned and destroyed, and peace in Oakhaven is restored due to The Mystery Inc. and the Hex Girls.
Ghost Clown
The Ghost Clown was one of the most ingenious villains the group had ever encountered. He put four of the members’ lives in jeopardy and hypnotised three of them. The Ghost Clown turned out to be Harry the Hypnotist in disguise.
He intended to exact vengeance on Mr. Barnstorm’s circus for imprisoning him. Harry was once a circus performer, but he was sacked after being found stealing.
Scooby was mesmerised to walk the tight ropes, and Daphne was hypnotised to dress up as a ballerina and ride a unicycle. He also used hypnosis to tame the lions by hypnotising Shaggy. He had tricked the gang into thinking there are two Ghost Clowns haunting the circus. He created a replica of him using balloons.
His evil laughter was far more bone-chilling than his cheeky one-liners. He tried his best to stay one step ahead of the gang but it was Shaggy’s plan that revealed his identity and led to his capture.
After hearing about the unusual events taking place at the circus, the gang decided to investigate. The gang came across two circus performers as they drove into the woods. Mr. Barnstorm, the circus’s manager, feared that a Ghost Clown was haunting the show.
The gang departs, but Scooby remains at the circus, where the Ghost Clown hypnotises Scooby with his gold coin. Scooby is found walking the tightrope when the gang returns for him.
Shaggy and Velma rush to his aid, while Freddy and Daphne search the costume tent for the perpetrator. The clown hypnotises Daphne and confines Freddy inside a trunk. She however breaks out of the trance, after an elephant squirts water on her. The gang devices a plan to capture the Ghost Clown inside a cage but their plan backfires.
Freddy’s cry of frustration triggers Shaggy’s memory of being hypnotized and helps him device a new plan. The ghost clown tries to hypnotize Shaggy and Scooby.
Shaggy and Scooby hold out a mirror and he gets tricked into hypnotizing himself and to act like a chimpanzee. Mr. Barnstorm recognizes the culprit as Harry the Hypnotist. This is however not the last that we see of him. He made cameos throughout the series.
Phantom Puppeteer
The Phantom Puppeteer was a puppet master. Using his puppets, he was capable of creating any shadow. He pretended to be a puppet show while forging money.
He employed his puppets to frighten patrons away from the Strand Theater. He threw flats and sandbags at Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma in an attempt to hurt them. Fortunately, the gang gets away unscathed.
The Mystery Inc. busted his scheme. Pietro, the master puppeteer, was so greedy that he had no qualms about injuring teenagers and a talking dog in order to keep creating money.
His over-enthusiasm in manipulating the puppets was his undoing, and it aided the gang in solving the case even faster. As a puppeteer, he was skilled enough to make himself look like the phantom.
While returning from a pizza place, Shaggy and Scooby witness a violin case full of money flying out of a van, after it hits a speed bump. Shaggy notifies the group about the incident, while Scooby guards the money, as he is suspicious of the bundle of money.
Pietro then utilises his puppeteer skills to divert Scooby’s attention away from his counterfeit money by creating the illusion of a poodle flirting with him.
Scooby tells the gang about the strange encounter. The party follows the clues to the Strand Theatre, where Pietro poses as a ticket taker to avoid suspicion. He then employs his puppeteering powers once more to frighten away the interfering children, but this only brings them closer to the truth.
He tries to injure them by attacking them with theatre props, but he fails. The gang finally captures and unmasks the phantom puppeteer as Pietro. The Mystery Inc. saves the day by sending the counterfeiter behind bars.
The Skull Island Vampire
Lisa’s grandfather was said to be the Skull Island Vampire. Lisa’s uncle, Leon, revealed to the gang that Lisa’s grandfather was a vampire who wanted to turn her into a vampire. After each successful effort, his horrible maniacal chuckle drove shivers down one’s spine!
The gang starts calling him “Gramp the Vamp.” Lisa was hypnotised into believing she was a vampire by the true perpetrator. To make his theory more credible, he purchased bats from an exotic store. The assailant intended to put Lisa in a mental institution and then inherit her hotel.
He tried to scare Daphne by appearing in front of her, travelling down a vent, wearing a mustache less beard, yellow lenses, fangs, and pointy ears. Wearing a magenta cape over a grey tux, he disguised himself as “Gramp the Vamp”.
He tried to scare the gang often by screaming for blood out of the blue and used a special whistle to control the bats. Leon, as a villain, was vengeful and cruel. If it wasn’t for the meddling kids, he probably would have succeeded in his plans.
In the episode of Vampire bats and scaredy cats, the gang visits Lisa to celebrate her birthday. They arrive at an old hotel that Lisa will inherit when she turns eighteen. Velma discusses the reports of vampires on the island and rejects them as irrational.
Shaggy and Scooby were requested to deliver a parcel to Mr. Dracula when they arrived on the island. He needed a coffin for the undertaker’s convention, and the box turned out to be one. A bat flying out of the coffin adds to the island’s creepy atmosphere.
Daphne wakes up in the middle of the night to find a vampire standing near her. Her screams scare him away as he vanishes using the ventilation duct. Leon circulates the rumor that deems Lisa’s grandfather a vampire.
He then pretends to be “Gramp the Vamp” and chases the gang around the hotel. He uses a high-pitched bell to hypnotize Lisa into thinking she is a vampire. Velma, Fred, and Daphne discover a piece of paper with Exo 6 Desmo scribbled on it, which leads them to discover “Gramp the Vamp’s” true identity.
They jolt Lisa awake from her hypnotic slumber and devise a plot to capture “Gramp the Vamp.” Leon’s true motivations are revealed as he is unmasked. Lisa treats the gang to an abundance of hamburgers, which Scooby-Doo devours.
Werecats And Zombie (Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island)
The werecats and zombies on Moonscar Island were not humanoid creatures hiding behind masks, unlike the majority of the series’ monsters. They were monstrosities endowed with extraordinary abilities.
When Morgan Moonscar attacked their island, Simone and Lena sought help from their cat god. They were changed into fearsome werecats intent on exacting vengeance on Moonscar and his pirates.
However, they would have to suck the lives of innocent humans every moon harvest in order to remain immortal. On Moonscar Island, the drained humans would transform into zombies after being wronged by the werecats.
Soon Jaques joined the werecats. Lena would lure in unsuspecting tourists to the island and the three of them would drain them to preserve their immortality. After luring the gang into the island, they made voodoo dolls to hurt them. If it weren’t for the zombies, the gang wouldn’t have survived on the island.
The group divides out to play their various roles in Scooby – Doo on Zombie Island. Velma owns a bookstore and Daphne is a TV programme personality.
Shaggy and Scooby serve as airport guards, but they are dismissed after devouring all of the contraband. Freddy organises a surprise for Daphne’s birthday and brings the crew back together in secret. The Mystery Inc. has reformed and plans to launch a new show.
Lena invites the gang to investigate her island after overhearing their chat. Daphne looks into all of the odd disappearances on Moonscar Island and decides to look into them. On arriving, a writing on the wall appears warning the gang to go back and such warnings keep appearing.
Meanwhile, a civil war ghost appears while Shaggy is getting ready for dinner. Shaggy and Scooby keep goofing around but they run into more zombies. The gang sets out to investigate and tries to unmask a zombiebut his head comes off.
The gang starts to believe that the zombies on this island are real. Lena leads them into a cave with their voodoo dolls where they pin the gang against the wall.
The trio reveal themselves in their true form andnarrates the story of how Morgan Moonscar killed the islanders. They attempt to drain the gang, but the zombies save them. Velma makes werecat voodoo dolls and uses them against the werecats.
The werecats die after failing to drain the gang before sunrise. The zombies have avenged themselves and are ascending into the light. On this Zombie Island, Mystery Inc. experiences one of their most terrifying adventures.
The Tar Monster
The Tar monster resembles a tar-covered green-eyed Cyclops. He chased the intruders out of the cave, growling and roaring to scare them away. Underneath the tar monster’s skin, he wore a diving gear that allowed him to swim through tar.
By covering his victims in tar, he would restrict or suffocate them. He desired to be the sole possessor of the vanished city’s treasure. The folks behind the Tar Monster’s mask devised a scheme to frighten others out of the cave and sabotage Dr. Brixton’s research.
He’d steal the treasures from the vanished city one by one while posing as a monk. Dr. Brixton believed that the monster guarding the treasures of the ancient cityhad kidnapped his assistant Stoner. MysteryInc. manages to trap the tar monster and unmask him to be Stoner.
In Turkey, Scooby-Doo and the gang pay a visit to Dr. Brixton. He’d just uncovered a buried city that was almost a thousand years old. Dr. Brixton requested the gang’s assistance because the tar monster was scaring away all of his employees, causing a delay.
The professor was concerned about Stoner, his assistant, who had been kidnapped. The gang follows the monster’s footprints to a nearby tar pool. After discovering a piece of old pottery, they grow suspicious.
Dr. Brixton takes them on a tour of the historic city the next morning. After learning that the ancient treasure had been stolen, their suspicions grow. The gang comes across another piece of ancient pottery near a new tar pool.
Shaggy and Scoobyend up getting chased by the monster. Fred, Daphne, and Velma find a map of the underground city and come up with a plan. They trap the tar monster and reveal it was Stoner. He gets arrested. The gang recovers the missing treasure and saves the day.
Ghostly Gondolier
The Ghostly Gondolier was said to be the spirit of a traitor that cursed Dodge Malvolio’s family. The Ghostly Gondolier resembled a ghostly humanoid monster. He possessed a sinister appearance due to his green sclera and dark pupils.
He was dressed in an indigo tunic and a grey cloak, his face hidden under a mask that made his face appear green. Mario, a distant descendant of Malvolio, was revealed to be the Ghostly Gondolier.
He intended to acquire all of the medallions in order to find Malvolio’s lost wealth. As soon as Daphne wore one of the medallions, he kidnapped her. He also broke into Antonio’s office and imprisoned him.
Mario hid his family lineage from Antonio and deceived him only to get close to the treasure. His plans are foiled when Scooby-doo figures out his location. He is trapped and unmasked by the gang. Mario’s identity as the Ghostly Gondolier is revealed.
A hooded person robs the Venice Opera House of a triangular medallion and flees in his gondola. Antonio extends an invitation to the gang to visit Venice. They take a gondola tour of Venice and dine at Antonio’s restaurant.
Shaggy and Scooby mistake a cloaked gondolier for a ghost, but are relieved when they realise it’s just the fog. They track down Antonio, who is still pursuing his painting studies at the academy.
Velma inquires about Dodge Malvolio IV, his ancestor. Antonio informs the gang that his jewels and image were never found. Antonio was left with only four golden medallions as a bequest. He was in possession of one of them while two others were in a museum.
The fourth one was recently stolen from the Venice Opera House. Mario rushes in to inform Antonio that another medallion too was stolen. Antonio and the gang rush to the museum. He gives them a tour of the museum and shows them the portraits of his ancestors. Velma notices how all of them have green eyes.
They arrive to check on the medallions. Daphne is kidnapped by a cloaked figure as soon as she puts on one of the medallions, and the rest of the gang divides up to look for her. Antonio’s office is robbed, and the cloaked guy takes both Antonio and Daphne with him.
Scooby-Doo discovers a clue to the Ghostly Gondolier’s location when he pursues the gang once more. Velma deduces the location of the treasure from an observation she made in one of the paintings. The gang rushes to Daphne and Antonio’s aid.
They apprehend the Ghostly Gondolier and discover that he is Mario. To cover his green eyes, he wore contact lenses. The perpetrator is apprehended, and the gang continues to enjoy their time in Venice.
Space kook
The Spooky Space Kook was a humanoid ghost with a skull for a head that wore a spacesuit. He terrorised the local airfield, leaving glowing footprints that frightened the residents even more. When he chuckled sarcastically, his helmet would light.
The bright tracks were generated by immersing his boots and gloves in phosphorus, as we learn at the conclusion. A local farmer was besieged by reporters who all wanted the newest scoop on the alien ghost haunting the nearby airfield as a result of this threat.
Henry Bas comb was later discovered to be the true identity of the Spooky Space Kook. He was prowling the local farms in the hopes of negotiating a lower price for the land.
He tried to scare Shaggy and Scooby amidst the chaos, but they found his projector. He chased Shaggy and Scooby into the wind tower, where his costume gets blown off and his identity is revealed.
At the beginning of the Spooky Space Kook episode, a mysterious spaceship lands on the airfield. A glowing ghost in a spacesuit appears and he walks off cackling. While driving down an ancient country road, the gang runs out of gas. They arrive at a farmer’s door, who misidentifies them as journalists.
The gang informs him of their predicament, and the farmer admits that reporters have been bothering him recently due to an alien spaceship and a ghost haunting the airfield. The gang chooses to examine the mystery after replenishing the mystery machine.
They track a plane to an abandoned airport. Fred is grabbed by a hook and begins to dangle in mid-air while Fred and the girls seek for clues. He gets saved just before the extraterrestrial ghost is about to arrive. Shaggy and Scooby head to the mess hall, where they are tempted by the fresh food.
But the ghost arrives and starts to chase them. The gang comes across a jeep that runs by itself, and an army of space alien ghosts begin to materialize. Shaggy and Scooby run into the wind tower, where they find a projector and tape recorder.
The ghost enters the wind tower while chasing after them. The wind blows away his costume and it puts a stop to the shenanigans of Henry Bascomb. Later, Freddy uses the tape recorder to prank Shaggy and Scooby by playing the evil laughter.
Phantom Shadows
Throughout the series, the Phantom Shadows, often known as the green ghosts, resurfaced. They also appeared in a crossover between Scooby-Doo and Supernatural. Colonel Beauregard’s lawyers were Cosgood Creeps and Cuthbert Crawls, both millionaires.
To scare away Colonel Beauregard’s heirs, the lawyers donned hooded capes and strange gloves. They couldn’t take over his inheritance until they got rid of his relatives and Scooby Doo first. The family attended the reading of his will, when they were given a condition to secure their fortune.
They needed to stay at his spooky castle for one night. Creeps and Crawls soon began to frighten the relatives away by impersonating phantom shadows.
They kidnapped the relatives one by one. But nothing went according to plan when they went after Scooby doo. They were captured and unmasked. At the end they realized that they went through all the trouble for worthless confederate money.
In the episode of ‘A night of fright is no delight’, the gang head to a spooky mansion on an island. Scooby-Doo was chosen as one of Colonel Beauregard Sanders’ successors since Scooby had saved him from drowning years before.
One of the Colonel’s lawyers, Cosgood Creeps, greets the gangon’s arrival. They then go to meet with Colonel’s family, the other heirs. On an ancient phonograph, Creeps plays a record. The Colonel’s tape informs his heirs that the mansion is haunted, and that they must spend the entire night in order to inherit their money.
Scooby and the gang decide to spend the night together. While Scooby is having a bath, a ghost appears. Scooby is in his bathtub, which slides via a secret channel and down a chute.
Scooby rushes to tell Shaggy and Fred about the incident but they find the bathtub intact and dismiss Scooby’s claim. Meanwhile, the green ghost scares one of the Colonel’s Cousins. The gang finds the Cousin to have simply disappeared into thin air.
A menacing message on a dusty mirror tells the gang to leave the island. The note was signed by Phantom Shadow. The group devises a plan to apprehend the ghost by tracking the Phantom Shadow’s footprints. Scooby is soon discovered to be the only heir left in the estate.
When Fred notices a speck of green paint on Shaggy’s hand, he devises a strategy. Scooby succeeds in capturing the Phantom Ghosts despite his plan failing.
Creeps and Crawls’ nefarious attempt to acquire the Colonel’s riches is foiled when they are discovered. Finally, a floating bone appears hilariously, making Scooby immensely thrilled.
Ghost of Dr. Coffin
The sanitarium near the Canadian border was said to be haunted by the ghost of Dr. Coffin. His complexion was pale, he had sharp ears, and his sclera was green. His ominous psychotic laughter would frequently frighten Mystery Inc.
After learning that Dr. Coffin’s patients are inexplicably disappearing, the group resolves to look into his case. After witnessing paramedics entering and exiting ambulances without patients, the gang becomes suspicious.
The trio follows the clues while being pursued by Dr. Coffin’s spirit. They come across a room filled with wigs. They eventually discover a gold smuggling operation that operates out of the sanitarium.
The ghost of Dr. Coffin is revealed to be Officer Oldfield, the mastermind behind the gold smuggling ring. No criminal can get away with tricking these meddling kids.
Scooby and the gang get lost on a rainy night while returning from Niagara Falls. They meet Officer Oldfield, a Canadian Patrol officer who warns them not to drive past the sanitarium because it is plagued by Dr. Coffin’s ghost.
Due to a broken sign, the gang winds up travelling to the sanitarium. They see paramedics taking a patient into the building. They are pursued by two dogs, who return quietly.
Velma thinks it’s strange that the paramedics are working in severe weather and at weird hours. Dr. Tooksbury invites the gang to dinner at the sanitarium. He says that different types of music may be used to train and tame dogs, and that this can explain the canines’ previous behaviour.
He tells the gang that he used to be Dr. Coffin’s assistant and now his patients kept disappearing. The gang decides to stay overnight at the sanitarium. We see Dr. Coffins laughing maniacally on top of a cliff before disappearing altogether.
A musical tune seems to put Scooby in a trance. The gang wakes up and heads to the organ room to wake Scooby but get chased by guard dogs. They end up in a room full of wigs, which gives them a clue. They discover that the patients in the ambulances are gold bars covered in wigs.
Shaggy and Scooby get driven to a gold mine. The gang uncovers the smuggling operation and unmasks the ghost of Dr. Coffin as Officer Oldfield. The Mystery Inc. solves another case and celebrate with a dance.
Miner Forty-Niner
In 1849, the Miner Forty-Niner was said to have landed in the Gold City. His soul would not rest until he discovered the final gold vein. The mines might be heard beckoning for the miner late at night. He was a grey-bearded old white man with a moustache.
His hat always covered the top of his head, leaving only his nose visible. He would frequently grunt and moan to frighten people away. He had a blank expression on his face most of the time, but he was terrified when he felt he was standing in the route of an oncoming train. He lifted his hat and uncovered his eyes in disbelief, revealing his true identity as Hank.
He wasn’t violent by naturebut had tricked an entire town into thinking it’s haunted so as to control real estate prices. He had discovered an oil mine and wanted to keep this a secret dominate the area.
In the episode“Mind your own business”, the gang ends up in an old west ghost town and check into a ranch. The owner, Big Ben seems over the moon as he hasn’t had a guest in many seasons. Hank explains the terror of Miner Forty-Niner which had driven out locals.
For a long period, the town had been deserted. The party sets off to investigate the town’s legends. Even the tiniest facts frighten Shaggy and Scooby. Scooby freaks out when he sees the Miner Forty-Niner in the mirror and destroys an Indian cigar shop.
It dislodges a Gold City map with a safe combination written in the corner. The gang discovers a hidden elevator in the hotel that goes to the mine.
Inside, they discover a recorder playing moaning and grunting sounds, as well as crude oil around. Scooby makes Miner Forty-Niner believe he’s about to be kidnapped by a train. His boots fall off, revealing stilts, and he is unmasked, revealing Hank, resulting in his arrest.
Scooby fools around with the stilts trying to pickup apples. As usual, the episode ends with Scooby saying his iconic catchphrase “Scooby-Dooby-Doo”.