Creepy Keeper

Creepy Keeper
Vital Statistics
Species	Human/ghost
Gender	Male
Hair color	Gray
Eye color	White
Other Statistics
Identity	Verona Dempsey
Reason	To wreck ships of competing businesses
Production Details
First appearance	WNSD: Fright House of a Lighthouse
Played by	Dee Bradley Baker

The Creepy Keeper was the disguise of Verona Dempsey.

Physical appearance

The Creepy Keeper was the ghost of an elderly lighthouse keeper with a bony face and hands, glowing white eyes, long grey hair, and a voluminous beard. He wore a tattered dark blue coat with a matching service cap, tattered yellow pants, and black boots.

Personality

The Creepy Keeper was a hostile monster that chased visitors away from a lighthouse, carefully and deliberately causing shipwrecks by turning out lights. It did not speak, letting out only cranky growls.

History

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Season three

The Creepy Keeper was the disguise of tailor Verona Dempsey, who intended to sabotage businesses competing with her shop. Operating a lighthouse along the coast of Lake Michigan, the monster turned off the lights during storms, causing cargo ships to crash. The disguise was the supposed ghost of a previous keeper at the lighthouse that died in a freak accident after sinking the Dauntless in the same way. With cargo ships avoiding Lake Michigan, Dempsey's town in Wisconsin was devastated by the loss of imported supply and many businesses closed.

As she sank ships as the ghost, Dempsey pretended to investigate the crime as an amateur sleuth. She met Mystery Inc., travelled to the various crime scenes, and collected clues. When Fred, Velma, and Daphne investigated and became stranded on the Dauntless, a ghost ship unrelated to the crime, the Creepy Keeper stopped Shaggy and Scooby from using the lighthouse to help Fred steer the ship to port. When Mystery Inc. reunited, Dempsey exposed boat renter Crusty McPete for fabricating the ghost ship. Dempsey effectively used McPete as a decoy as Mystery Inc. assumed he was also responsible for the Creepy Keeper.

Verona Dempsey unmasked.

However, Velma reopened the investigation after discovering that Dempsey was able to have her fabrics imported, despite the Creepy Keeper sinking any cargo ships that approach the port. Mystery Inc. returned to the lighthouse and captured the Creepy Keeper. Dempsey was unmasked, exposed for her crimes, and handed over to authorities.

Appearances

• What's New, Scooby-Doo?
  • 301. Fright House of a Lighthouse ^{(no lines)}

Notes/trivia

• In the DTV movie, Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King, a real Creepy Keeper can be seen at the monster bar and the line outside the Goblin King’s lair.