Editing Scooby Doo (section)

=Monsters: Always Fake?=
Everybody knows that the monsters in Scooby-Doo are always fakes; weirdoes dressing up in costumes to fake hauntings for various elaborate schemes. Which makes it all the more surprising for many to hear that there ''have'' been real monsters in the Scooby Doo franchise.

In fact, the practice started during the Scrappy-Doo era, with the Scrappy-based cartoons and spin-off movies having Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy run into real monsters. The last series of that era, "The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo", is even entirely about Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy and Daphne teaming up with new human kid sidekick Flim-Flam to track down and seal away thirteen ghosts that Scooby and Shaggy accidentally released from a magic box.