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Huh?

Shh.

Mmm!

Are you sure we took the right turn, Shaggy?

Sure. We took this road and turned to the right.

No wonder we're lost. You've been reading the map upside down.

Here's where we are. At Gold City, the old ghost town.

- Ghost town? - Ghost town?

What will we do now?

What's that over there?

"Gold City Guest Ranch. Vacancy."

Maybe we can spend the night there.

- There? - Yes, there.

Uh-uh.

Go ahead. Ring the bell, Shaggy.

Ring-a-ding-ding, coming up.

Huh?

Welcome, kids. Come on in.

I'm Big Ben, owner of this guest ranch.

Do you happen to have any rooms?

Do I? You're my only guests.

Come on in and register and I'll call old Hank.

Hank. Oh, Hank. We have some guests.

Hey, Scooby, come here.

Now, this is Hank, the caretaker here at the ranch.

Pleased to meet you.

Hank, show the guests to their rooms, like a good feller.

Follow me.

That will be the girls' room...

and you fellers can bunk in this one, just across the hall.

These sure are nice rooms.

I can't understand why the place is empty.

It's the miner.

- The miner? - The who?

The Miner Forty-Niner.

- Forty-Niner? - Yes, siree.

He came to Gold City in 1849...

and he can't rest until he finds the last vein of gold.

1849?

Like, wow, that's what I call an ancient miner.

That's for sure.

And at night, you can hear the mine moaning...

- calling for the miner. - Oh-oh. Oh-oh.

But what has he got to do with the ranch?

I don't know...

but lately, he's been coming up here and scaring the guests away.

And I'm going away in the morning myself.

Man, that's the wildest tale I ever heard.

Ridiculous. A 100-year-old miner.

Still, something must have scared off the guests.

Huh?

Gone!

Well, it's still early.

Why don't we go into the ghost town and take a look around?

Wonder what it's like on a Saturday night.

Boy, what a spooky old street.

I've seen enough. Let's go back.

Not until we walk around this ghost town and see what we can find.

Like, I know what we'll find.

- What? - Ghosts.

Hey, look, Shaggy. A real old-time Western saloon.

When you said old, you just weren't, like, kidding.

- Sarsaparilla, bartender. - Two.

No wonder this place is empty.

You ask for a sarsaparilla, and all you get is a glass of spider webs.

Spider webs?

- Zoinks, ghosts! - Ghosts?

It's not a ghost. It's a player piano.

So Who's playing it?

It's automatic.

It must've turned itself on automatically.

Now, come down out of those draperies.

Like, why couldn't you have been a poodle?

Did you find any clues?

- Not a one. - Neither did I.

Let's take a look in this old hotel.

Maybe our mysterious miner rented a room for the night.

- Oh, go on in, Scooby. - Yikes!

What a creaky, creepy place.

Hey, Scooby, come on.

Oh, wait for me.

It's lucky for you the room's empty.

Let's get back to the others.

It's got me! Help!

It's only a tree branch. I knew it all the time.

The only place we haven't looked is the old mine.

And that's all boarded up.

I'm beginning to think there really isn't an ancient miner.

Well, let's keep moving.

Keep together, now.

Oh-oh.

Hmm?

Zoinks! The miner's chasing Scooby!

Some miner. It's only a cigar-store Indian.

Oh, Scooby. Quit clowning.

Who's clowning?

Look. It's hollow.

Hey, what's this inside?

It looks like a map of Gold City.

Look how new it is.

What's a new map like that doing in an old Indian like this?

It's quite simple.

- Somebody was hiding it. - Maybe these numbers mean something.

Left 10, right 7, left 4, right 23.

Maybe it's directions to a buried treasure.

Yeah. Like a fortune in buried chocolate cheeseburgers.

But those directions don't make sense.

- Then they must mean something. - But what?

I've got it.

I bet it's the combination of a safe.

And there's an old safe in the lobby of this hotel.

Shaggy, you work on the combination as I read off the numbers.

Okay, but I need a moment to warm up.

Now, I must have absolute quiet while I work.

Huh?

- Oh, Shaggy. Shaggy. - Quiet.

Look, I have the combination. Just turn the knob to the right.

Well, why didn't you say so?

It's open.

Stop showing off, Scooby. I knew it was open all the time.

- Like, wow. Get a load of that. - A secret elevator.

Well, let's see where it goes.

All aboard.

- Come on, Scooby. - Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

Come on, Scooby. You're not chicken.

Would you come with us for a Scooby snack?

- Hmm? Two? - Okay. Two it is.

Well, come on.

Scooby-Doo.

Down.

Wow. Look where we've landed.

A mine tunnel.

It must be the old Gold City Mine.

Well, if there is a miner, this is where we'll find him.

Come on.

It's sure dark in here.

We could use some light.

Hey, I found some candles.

Shaggy, that's dynamite!

Dynamite?

That's strange.

This end of the mine's lit by lanterns.

Yeah, and I wonder who lit them.

Zoinks. You had to ask.

That must be the moan that Hank was talking about.

I think we better split up...

and try and find where that moan came from.

I'll go with Daphne and Velma.

- You go with Scooby-Doo. - Thanks a lot.

And, Shaggy, if you find anything, holler.

I'm liable to holler even if I don't find anything.

Yipe!

What are you trying to do, Scooby?

Well, quit the clowning and come on.

Look at all these doors.

Look in one of those, I'll look in this one.

Right.

Huh?

Oh-oh.

- You gotta be kidding. - Uh-uh.

I suppose you want me to look.

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

That's what I was afraid of.

- It's empty. - Huh? Empty?

What are you trying to do, scare me again?

What now?

Boy, what a scaredy-dog.

You still think there's something in that closet?

- Uh-huh, uh-huh. - Okay. We'll switch.

You look in this door, and I'll look in that one.

And there better be something in it.

Oh, no!

Zoinks! It's the Miner Forty-Niner!

Huh. This must be a storeroom.

Careful. Those old floors look weak.

I know. I know.

- Look out! - Oh!

Are you all right?

Say something.

I'm all right, just covered with flour.

You wait up there. I'll be right up.

We gotta, like, find a place to hide.

Quick, in here.

Zoinks!

A ghost. Let's get out of here.

Whew! We finally got away from that goony miner.

It's him!

Look out!

Are you guys all right?

Groovy.

Hey, what happened to Daphne?

I fell down in here.

Wouldn't you know it? Danger-prone Daphne fell into a mineshaft.

- I'II get her. - You'll get her?

Uh-huh.

It's the Miner Forty-Niner.

Hey, gang. There's a maze of secret passages down there.

And guess what I saw in that mine.

Yeah. We saw him too.

I guess Hank wasn't kidding about that ancient miner.

Do you suppose that's the miner moaning?

Well, like, if I had a face like that, I'd moan too.

Hey, look.

I found a Clue.

It seems that this wire leads up to that speaker.

Now things are beginning to make a little sense.

And I have a hunch what we'll find at the other end of this wire.

I was right. A tape recorder.

Well, that accounts for the mysterious moaning.

Hey, look what I found.

Like, jars of chocolate syrup.

Chocolate syrup, nothing. That's samples of crude oil.

Oil? In a gold mine?

Hey, this mystery is really getting mysterious.

And what about our mysterious miner?

I've got a hunch he'll show up soon.

Let's borrow this microphone.

And, Shaggy, we'll need you too.

Listen to that Shaggy go.

And Scooby's great at being a train.

Got him.

Oh, no. Scooby can't stop.

Scooby went right through the shack.

- He's caught him. - I hope.

Hey, that's gotta be the miner.

But where's Scooby?

Help!

- Huh? - Look, stilts.

Shaggy's right. He is wearing stilts.

Then this can only be one person.

- Hank. - Hank?

Oh, dagnabit.

So it was old Hank who was scaring off my guests.

To force you out of business.

That way, he could buy the guest ranch, the ghost town-

And, like, the mine for almost nothing.

Then there must still be gold in that old mine.

Not gold. Black gold.

- You mean oil? - Like, right.

But how did Hank know about the oil?

He accidentally found the secret mine entrance in the old hotel safe.

And instead of gold, he found oil.

He had the exact location laid out on a map.

Then he, like, hid the map in the cigar-store Indian for safekeeping.

Too bad. We could have been partners.

Now, instead of being rich, he's in jail.

Hey, like, what happened to Scooby?

There he is.

Scooby, look out for that gopher hole.

Whoa... Whoa... Whoa...

Scooby-Doo!

One of those apples better be for me.

Huh?

Shh.