Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost
A horror writer's invitation to a New England town turns into an encounter with a real witch.
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost is a 1999 American direct-to-video animated supernatural comedy horror film, the second of the direct-to-video Scooby-Doo films. Mystery Inc. travels to the New England town of Oakhaven, Massachusetts, at the invitation of horror writer Ben Ravencroft. Like several Scooby-Doo films of the late 1990s and early 2000s, it features real supernatural elements, giving it a darker tone.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Jim Stenstrum
- Writer
- Rick Copp
- David A. Goodman
- Davis Doi
- Glenn Leopold
- Based on
- Scooby-Doo, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears
- Producer
- Cos Anzilotti
- Editing
- Rob DeSales
- Music
- Louis Febre
- Distributor
- Warner Home Video
- Released
- 5 October 1999
Lore & Background
Oakhaven's mayor has turned the town into a tourist attraction built on the ghost of Sarah Ravencroft, Ben's ancestor, who was persecuted as a witch and executed by the Puritan townspeople in 1657. Ben claims that Sarah was a Wiccan healer and that he has spent years searching for her medical diary to prove her innocence. The gang also meets the Hex Girls, a gothic rock band led by Sally "Thorn" McKnight.
Reader's Guide
The ghost that chases Shaggy and Scooby turns out to be Mr. McKnight, Thorn's father and the town pharmacist, as part of a town-wide publicity stunt for Oakhaven's failing tourist economy. When the gang digs up Sarah's diary it proves to be a witch's spellbook, and Ben reveals that he is a warlock and that Sarah really was a witch, imprisoned in the book by the Wiccans of her time. He releases her hoping she will help him rule the world, but she chooses to destroy it instead and traps him in a magical sphere. Velma convinces Thorn, who is one-sixteenth Wiccan, to re-imprison Sarah, who is pulled back into the book and takes Ben with her. A burning branch then falls onto the book and incinerates it.
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