Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Haunted House Hang-Up - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Haunted House Hang-Up

Premiered October 10, 1970

Season 2, Episode 5

Quickly

A headless specter tries to scare people away from an derelict mansion.

Too Much Detail Recap

The episode opens with a close up shot of an extremely detailed hand. It threw me off. It feels unlike anything that has appeared in the course of the series.

The gang is on their way to a rock festival. Fred has gotten them lost. They stop to find their bearings. Asa Shanks, a local, walks towards them. He advises them to leave for their own good. He directs them back to the highway. He tells them the road will come to a fork. The short way will take them to the headless specter, the long way won't. The girls want to go the short way, Shaggy and Scooby want them to go the long way. Fred decides to go the short way when he notices they are low on gas.

They're forced to pull over when the engine overheats. Shaggy and Scooby go to a well to get water for the engine and meet a phantom sheet. They don't believe Shaggy's story as if this doesn't happen to them constantly (I think I sprained my eyes rolling them). They go up to the mansion when they see a light is on. When they enter the mansion, they see the light is a candle. They are scared when the candle floats after them.

Shaggy and Scooby find a picture missing a head. Before they can show Fred, Velma and Daphne, the head reappears. While investigating, they find a box with a head but the head is just a dummy.

The gang splits up to follow two sets of footprints. Velma, Scooby and Shaggy follow the footprints into a dark room with strange knocking. What follows is about 20 seconds of the cheapest animation in the series up to this point with Scooby, Shaggy and Velma's eyes in an otherwise black frame. While in the dark room, they meet the headless specter. 

Cue Pop Song Chase scene.

The chase scene ends when Velma, Shaggy and Scooby fall in the well. The water saves them like they're in Minecraft. In the well, they find a door to a secret tunnel, again a bit like Minecraft (if you've ever built a straight down mineshaft).

Fred and Daphne find a journal with a nonsensical entry from 1822. They also find a trapdoor into an old fruit cellar. They reunite with Velma, Shaggy and Scooby. When Shaggy and Scooby try to eat the food in a canister, they discover the canister is filled with balloons. The balloons were used to make the ghost Scooby and Shaggy saw.

The riddle in the diary leads Scooby and Shaggy to search the greenhouse. In the greenhouse, they meet the headless man and they get into a chase on giant balloons (an RGB/Prisoner moment).

They accidentally capture the headless man. The headless specter is the great-great grandson of the owner of the mansion. He was trying to scare off people who might steal his family's treasure. They offer to help him find it. They hear the knocking and realize the knocking that has been plaguing them is a separate mystery. Fred announces he and Shaggy will go to investigate.

They discover a man in a sheet with an axe. It's less of a ghost sheet and more of a Jason Voorhees sackhead vibe. The man in the sheet is the neighbor they met on the road, Asa Shanks. They also find the treasure in a column in front of the house.

Rogue's Gallery

The Headless Specter and the Guy with the Sheet over his head.