‘Eclectic, strange or weird?’: 1,000 Scooby-Doo keepsakes a treasure for Brampton collector [Video]

Tristan Sacrey poses with some of the Scooby Doo merchandise he has collected with his partner Brad Flowers, in their Brampton, Ontario home on Sunday November 24, 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Brampton man Tristan Sacrey says he reached rock bottom five years ago but found help from an old friend – Scooby-Doo.

He went through a breakup, lost his job and had to move back in with his mom, and he was still trying to process the death of his father two years earlier.

His therapist urged him to find something that would help him feel connected to his dad. Shortly after that, Sacrey’s mom found his childhood collection of Scooby-Doo books in the basement. Immediately, the memories flooded in.

“It was the deepest, darkest depression of my existence,” he says. “It was like this spotlight shined down. I was like, ‘What’s that over there? Scooby-Doo.’”

Sacrey remembers going to …