'For sale: baby shoes, quite haunted': 25+ Scarily funny 6-word horror stories

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 24, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

It's the spooky season once again, and the internet is ready to celebrate with some of their funniest and shortest horror stories. Could you tell a scary story in just six words? It's harder than it looks! We all know the classic short sad story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," written by Ernest Hemingway. The sentence has become a meme online, with plenty of people changing up the template to make their own jokey version of the story ("For sale: baby shoes, quite haunted," is just one example!). Although Hemingway nailed it with his classic story, it can be hard to think of something sad or scary that can be conveyed in so few words. But that didn't stop the internet from trying anyway!

Though the challenge of creating a horror story in just six words isn't as easy as it seems, these X users took the Halloween challenge in stride! But also, a lot of people wrote their own funny versions of @MammonsGreedy's prompt too, and you can check out some of the funniest ones down below. 

After that, read about this bold grandfather who "pretended to be on a secret mission… for 20 years" in order to get a tiny bit more food from his favorite restaurant. 

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    @MammonsGreedy Lets hear them IMMORTALIS WRITE MĖ A HORROR STORY WITH ONLY SIX WORDS
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    @Antonomasia_art Carpeted bathroom with carpeted toilet too
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    @GameyTarsier62 My mom finds my search history
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    Oh @salmongriller we out of beer.
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    @RealKyouko Hours Your turn to do the chores
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    @_Roperational I ran out of toilet paper.
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    @EDieguete "son i just bought your lunchly"
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    @Ghetto Beerus I drank evil water and DIED!
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    @cosmiitic No money in your bank account
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    @TheRealNiffty You have taxes to pay muahahahaha
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    @OtterDragonAle Spilled Tomato Sauce On Carpeted Kitchen
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  • 12
    @kid_kazuma Buy wireless mouse, looks inside, wires
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  • 13
    @pastaman68 earth ran out of doctor pepper
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  • 14
    @kibblesmith "I already watched it without you."
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  • 15
    @vinn_ayy baby shoes for sale, I'm Dracula
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  • 16
    @fujoshincel bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs
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    @Upgrade50842238 Take turkey off the thanksgiving menu
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  • 18
    @doshsviel The wi-fi shut off just now...
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    @DallyTheCyborg I'm still single after 19 years.
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    @AGoldmund For sale: baby shoes, quite haunted
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    @Extrobe An infant on an airplane flight.
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  • 22
    @SpecHSC It's the first. Bills are due
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  • 23
    @meatsical "Infinite Jest is my favorite book"
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  • 24
    @ChloeCondon Please send by end of day
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  • 25
    @ElsemoreJerry I am in ur living room
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  • 26
    @funnyvileplume evil shoes worn by evil baby
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  • 27
    @nyxwhitefang 5 assignments due at 23:59
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    @SodaPsyche In friends bathroom... no toilet paper
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