User blog:Baldwin17/The case of The Green Glob Ghoul

Mystery Log Entry #2

Dear Mystery Log

Today was a regular morning in Coolsville, I had a tasty breakfast of pancakes and boiled egg, and got ready to go outside and get the paper for my dad. However, as I looked down the street for Shaggy on his Cherry 1955 Starfire Special bicycle, since he delivers the papers every morning, I instead saw what I thought was a big green glob riding on it. I thought I was just seeing things, but I went over to Shaggy's place to get to the bottom of it and found Scooby all shaking like a leaf. He said he saw a green glob of a ghoul steal Shaggy's bike and ride away with it. And Shaggy said that he was certain that someone stole his bike because it was gone by the time he left his room and went out the front door. So we called in a meeting of the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency to solve this mystery.

The main question was who would want to steal Shaggy's old bike, which was rickety according to Daphne, and Scooby said it was a ghost, which I said I thought I saw as well, but wasn't sure if I really saw it. However, Daphne claims that there's no such thing as ghosts, so Freddie jumped to the conclusion that it was Red Herring, again. So, goign on Freddie's hunch, we spotted Red and followed him to his hideaway, in Weirdo Woods. Now you'd think that a place with a name like Weirdo Woods would look and sound scary, and boy you would be right. Me, Shaggy, and Scooby were creeped out, thinking that, at any moment, we would get sucked into the resident swamp muck by a monster. But Daphne expressed her disbelief in such things, saying that there was nothing to be afraid of, until she let out a terrified scream.

Turns out that she just got some mud on her new Go Go Boots, rather silly, eh? But things soon changed when Shaggy felt something grab at his ankles. Me, him, and Scoob turned round and saw a pair of slimy claws come out of a nearby mud pit. Naturally, we both amscrayed when we saw that it was a swamp monster, but turns out it was just that no good bully Red Herring, the target we were following, who decided to pull a prank on us. Fred then revealed his hunch, and we got proof, too. Because thanks to Velma's metal detector and Scooby's nose, we found a bike. But it was actually Red's, and Fred learned that the hard way.

Eventually, Velma got an idea. And soon, she spotted tire tracks from Shaggy's bike. And so, we followed the tracks all the way to the Daily Babble newspaper building.