Instant film, pins, posts and a few Google Maps reviews, all filed away in a creaky old house at the end of a foggy road. Grab a lantern. Mind the portraits. The van's around back.
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Welcome, traveler. I'm Shaggy Shaw, and that's the only name I answer to. Cancer survivor, peg-leg pirate with a replacement knee, whitehat and network engineer by trade, Polaroid and Lomo shooter by habit. I've been building websites since the '90s, I still play ham radio and retro games, and I fix up old houses and collect old bottles and vintage license plates. These days I'm also 3D printing, flying drones, building Raspberry Pi projects, bird watching, and being a full-on weather nerd. I know my bourbon, and then I eat my Wheaties. I'm a card collector (sports, non-sports and postcards), I like to pick locks, I've pinned more Scooby-Doo villains than is healthy, and I'm prepared for a zombie apocalypse.
This house is full of me. There's film drying in the darkroom, chili on the stove and bourbon down in the cellar. Old cards sit in the locker room, and the radio still crackles. Every door opens on a different decade, so pick one and mind the stairs.
P.S. — previous descriptions of the suspect, on record:
I'm on a mission to change future events and screw up the space-time continuum...X & Pinterest, 2009–now
It's a mystery...X, location field
…Information Security Analyst, Whitehat, Network Engineer, IT Consultant, Cancer Survivor…Tumblr, 2010
…Apple Fanboy, Gadget Guru, Polaroid & Lomo Photographer, Experimenter, Myth Buster, Ham Radio Operator, Music Lover, Retro Video Gamer…Tumblr, 2010
…Bourbon Connoisseur, College Basketball Fan, Fantasy Footballer, Old House Renovator, Collector of Old Bottles & Vintage License Plates... I'm also prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse.Tumblr, 2011
…the ultimate goal of this photoblog is to shoot & post a variety of instant, 35mm & other lomo/analog only photos every day of the year...lomo365 Tumblr, 2013
I'm also an InfoSec Analyst, Cancer Survivor, Gadget Guru, Experimenter, Myth Buster, Ham Radio Operator, Music Lover,...Tumblr, 2014
The purpose of this blog is to record and broadcast the rehabilitation effort of our "new" Victorian home…old-house blog, 2007
A vintage plate on every step. Plates spotted: Kentucky (Nicholas and Fayette counties), Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, Michigan, Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, New York and Florida.
His old profile card lists him as a “Collector of Old Bottles & Vintage License Plates.” Mind your step.
Up the back stairs to the Plate Wall →34 plates photographed so far, Kentucky firstThree from his own collection, with the family treasure in the middle. Each one leads down to its spot in the cellar.
Found sealed up in a plastered theater wall during demolition.
in the cellar →
A sealed golden flask from Stitzel-Weller, the family’s own treasure.
in the cellar →
A Kentucky wildcat decanter, still wide awake.
in the cellar →Real instant film, clipped to the line and drying under the red safelight. Every visit pulls a different batch from the drying line. Hover over a print to develop it, or click one for a closer look.
See the whole roll on DeviantArt →This is where the case gets worked. Real instant-film evidence, Pinterest boards, Google reviews, X replies, a last-seen flyer and a few unverified leads are all pinned to the board. Drag anything and the red string follows.Swipe each strip to sift the evidence. Pick up the magnifier to read the fine print.
SUBJECTShaggy Shaw, a.k.a. shaggyshaw. Known haunts: New Orleans cocktail history, antique bookshops, Red River Gorge.
yep, this really was his profile pic once. no further questions.
“I'm prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse.” noted.
Nine of his real Pinterest boards, each one a suspect. Open a folder to read the case file: these are actual pins, and every card links to the pin itself.
Open the full dossier on Pinterest →
EXHIBIT A · PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE FIELD AGENT · 2017The Midway After DarkBourbon County Fair · Paris, KentuckyOf every photo he has filed as a Google Maps Local Guide, this is the one the most strangers have stopped to stare at: the Ferris wheel lit up, the corn dogs frying and the sky going purple over the midway.View the exhibit on Google Maps ↗
Answers to "Shaggy." Last spotted leaving five-star reviews at The Sazerac House and Herbsaint in New Orleans.
GOOGLE MAPS REVIEWS · LATE OCT 2026An anonymous tipster swears this skate tape is our guy. The detective isn't buying it: wrong town, wrong stairs, and a much cleaner ollie than the subject could ever land. Probably planted to throw sleuths off the trail. Still… kinda cool.
Watch the tape (not ours) →Does anyone really have their dreams come true? ... what percentage are nightmares?Read the journal on Bluesky →
Big, orange and shaggy, with hypnotic spiral eyes and a wispy white beard. Crackles with blue lightning. Shorts out every light in the house. Last seen flickering through the windows of this very manor and trading on the prediction markets. Do not hover near him.
An original drawing. A fan homage to a classic cartoon phantom.Somewhere past the Evidence Locker there's a room nobody dusts. The old blogs, lost photostreams and the old homepage are back on the shelf. Pull a book to open it.
Voices from his real X timeline, recorded on cassette. Click a tape to play it and the crystal ball will tell you what it says.
Somebody's been down here dubbing tapes. Every song on his YouTube Music playlist Shaggy's Music is on this shelf, twenty to a tape, oldest first. The reel-to-reel on the end is still recording: new songs land there, and when it fills up a fresh tape appears.
PICK A TAPE · PICK A SONG · NOTHING LOADS FROM YOUTUBE UNTIL YOU PRESS PLAY
The deck is empty.
Pick a tape off the shelf.
The J-card is blank until a tape goes in.
Real posts pulled off his X timeline, quoted word for word. Tear off any slip to read the original post on X.
Old shaggyshaw.com posts, a medical file and a basement full of clues. Every quote is copied word for word from the archived page.
#scoobydoo #LEGO #minifigures #minifigshaggyshaw.com/post/127318083204 ↗
#LEGO #scoobydoo #minifig #minifiguresshaggyshaw.com/post/127318020569 ↗
Scooby snacks!shaggyshaw.com/post/48018290028 ↗
Look out for the shark! #LEGO #minifig #minifigureshaggyshaw.com/post/139634878869 ↗
For sale. #pappyvanwinkle #bourbon $1500 firm. Won’t last long. Hit me up if interested. Cash and local delivery only.shaggyshaw.com/post/128032838119 ↗
Foggy sunrise on Stoner Creek this morning #latergram (at Fryman’s Boat Dock, Bait Shop and Gallery)shaggyshaw.com/post/128509822934 ↗
Vegas martini neonshaggyshaw.com/post/136798342754 ↗
Zoltar from the movie Big. #vegasbaby #latergramshaggyshaw.com/post/137586782479 ↗
Coming to YouTube, Shorts and Instagram. These cases are filed and waiting for their turn under the lamp. @ShaggyShaw on YouTube ↗
Bourbon County Fair midway · Paris, Kentucky
It started as his most-viewed Local Guide photo: the Ferris wheel lit up over the midway as the sky went purple. The rest of the file stays sealed until opening night.
Near Olympia Springs · Bath County, Kentucky · 1876
On March 3, 1876, under a clear sky, chunks of what looked like meat fell over a farm while Mrs. Crouch was out in the yard making soap. The leading suspects: vultures. A preserved sample still exists in Lexington.
Bourbon County, Kentucky · Bourbon Street, New Orleans
Everybody in central Kentucky knows the county story. But that version only shows up in print in the 1870s, and whiskey historian Michael Veach suspects New Orleans. Team County or Team Street?
The 2004 portfolio page has been re-shelved in the Dusty Library, every heading and title exactly as it was listed.
Read it in the Dusty Library →re-shelvedcheck out the pictures of my neighborhood during the ice storm. it split a tree that fell on the neighbors house and power lines and almost crushed a car.
Footer badges recovered from the same build:
Who was that peg-legged pirate?
The blog Shaggy kept while living through bone cancer: diagnosis, chemo, limb-salvage surgery, the all-clear and the years after. Sixty-eight posts and forty-seven comments, preserved word for word from the original files.
Read the blog, November 2003 – May 2006 →
THE SHOEBOX · 23 EXHIBITS · CONTENTS AS FOUNDLift the lid in the Shoebox Room →Found at the bottom of the basement steps: an Airwalk box, a Vans box and a trinket box full of wallets, PEZ, eyeballs and a Pee-wee Club pin. Now they have a room of their own.
Chain of custody: page text from Wayback snapshots of shaggyshaw.com (2004–2016), photos re-fetched from the original Tumblr image links. The blog is preserved from the original server files.
SUSPECT’S CURRENT OPERATIONODDITIES FROM EVERY ROOMOdd relics and strange finds from around the Manor. Most live in other rooms; each card walks you to its spot.
Marbles & the King’s knivesPocket curios that turned up with the bottles: swirl marbles and two folding knives with Elvis on the handles.The Bottle Cellar →
Whiskey Tooth PasteAn old magazine ad for Jigger Scotch Toothpaste, in Scotch or Bourbon.The Bottle Cellar →
MOONSHINE KILLSA vintage van with strong opinions about moonshine. Origin unknown.The Bottle Cellar →
Mold-A-RamaThe amazing automatic miniature plastic factory.The Game Room →
OperationCavity Sam, red nose and all, waiting on the tweezers.The Game Room →
Fallout Shelter signA real one, hung in the Manor’s basement.The Dusty Library →
Weird Science No. 16EC’s incredible science-fiction stories: a saucer lands, a domed alien steps out.The Dusty Library →
The monster shelfCreature bust, gold skull, evil tree and a Frankenstein brain pot, all printed in the Workshop.The Workshop →
The triple-screen SonyThree televisions sharing one wood-grain cabinet.The TV Room →
The SpoonerA green Spooner board striped with ocean-photo grip, sea turtles included.The Skate Shop →
The sledThomas Graham Co., Madison, Ind.: a ringed planet painted on an old wooden sled at the Manor.The Art Gallery →
Exhibit B-1 · BiomechLeft knee, lateral view, 11/11/2008. Suspect is part machine.The Evidence Locker →The Scooby-Doo x Funko shelf and the Unmasked Mutt from Cartombs have moved to their own wing.
The digital artifacts now hang in the Art Gallery →The shelf is dusted and waiting. Nothing goes on it until it’s real.
Every face this house has worn online, hung in gilt frames with dated plaques. The carved eyes on the frames follow you around the room, the portraits lean in for a better look, and every so often one of them flickers. Don't stare back.
Ancestral portraits, recovered from DeviantArt, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, X and Google.
Wanted posters for the house’s most frequent visitors, pulled from the Scooby Doobie board. Episode, year and culprit appear only where the record checks out. Tap a poster to see the original pin.
Names come from the pin text; episodes, years and culprits checked against Wikipedia’s Scooby-Doo episode lists. Restocked weekly from Scooby Doobie on Pinterest ↗
She's parked in the fog with the engine still running. Click the glowing spots to open the compartments, then climb into the cab to play with the radio and read what somebody wrote on the windshield.
follow it →Somebody wrote this from the inside: take the secret passage →
Paris, KY · straight off the manor's own weather station
outdoor sensor not reporting
Shaw Manor · Field Journal · Natural History Dept.
Visitors to the feeder, as reported by a camera with opinions.
“38 Bird Species Spotted” reads the ledger of the feeder’s camera, whose built-in AI names every guest it sees. The Manor writes down what it says and does not always believe it.
Per the feeder’s AI · not verified
ENTRY II · FROM THE SPECIMEN DRAWER
WANTED
for grand larceny of birdseed
“The Culprit”
Reward: One (1) Peanut
Looked into the lens, and the lens looked back.
Species names are the feeder camera’s automatic identifications, not confirmed sightings.
enter the Bird Log →Two of his own videos from the summer of 2017. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
REEL 1
REEL 2