One of my favorite categories of riddles is Scary riddles. If you want to have an excuse to scare the pants off people then this compilation of good for you and if you haven’t been scared yet, it’s time to get rolling. These are the compilation of tremendous riddles to share on those cool and silent nights out on the camping trail or to help get your family and friends to have a spooky night.
The person who built it sold it. The person who bought it never used it. The person who used it never saw it. What is it?
It’s a coffin.
The Smith family is a very wealthy family that lives in a big, circular home. One morning, Mr. Smith woke up and found his gardener's body. He knew it was one of his employees who had killed him. So he asked them what they were doing in the morning and he got these replies.
Driver: I was outside washing the car.
Maid: I was dusting the corners of the house.
Cook: I was starting to make lunch for later.
From the replies, he knew who the killer was. Can you guess who it was?
The maid because they lived in a circular house and she was apparently “dusting the corners” of the house at the time of the murder – the house is round, therefore it has no corners.
On the first day of the school, a young girl was found murdered. Police suspect four male teachers and question them. They were asked what they were doing at 8:00 am.
Mr. Walter: I was driving to school and I was late.
Mr. Thomas: I was checking English exam papers.
Mr. Benjamin: I was reading the newspaper.
Mr. Calvin: I was with my wife in my office.
The police arrested the killer. How did the police find the murderer?
Mr.Thomas as he cannot be checking exam papers on the first day of school.
We have no flesh, no feathers, no scales, no bone. We do have fingers and thumbs of our own.
Gloves.
What is made of water, but when placed in water it will die?
An ice cube.
What did the cannibal do when he saw an “All you can eat” restaurant?
He had two waiters and a busboy.
If you see one flying around
You'd better be careful at night
As some turn into vampires
And will give your neck a big bite
What are they?
Bats.
You are walking when you come upon a monster. A riddle he asks you:
If you tell the truth, I will strangle you.
If you tell a lie, then I will chop your head off.
How do you get out of this matter?
Either say You will chop my head off, or say You will strangle me. For if you say, you will chop my head off he would say that it would be false. Making him chop your head off, but therefore making the statement true, so he would strangle you. But then that would make the statement false, leaving you free.
A girl, at the funeral of her mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She fell for him and just kept looking at him. Sometime later she realized that the guy is gone and she forgot to take the number of the guy and now she can’t find him. A few days later she killed her elder brother. What is her motive in killing her brother?
She was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again
A man watches his friend walk slowly across a room, go through a door at the other end, and slam the heavy steel door behind him. The man knows that his friend is dead. There are no windows in the door or in the walls around it. His friend wasn’t dying as he walked across the room. The room on the other side of the door was perfectly safe, and there was no one in it. How did the man know that his friend was dead? Also, if the same thing had happened now, the man wouldn’t have died
They were diving, wearing the old-fashioned diving suits that have a tube that goes to the surface. They were exploring a sunken submarine. When the man shut the door, it cut the air tube, and he died.
Two men are walking in a graveyard. The first man walks to a grave.
The second man says, “Who is in that grave?”
The first man points to the grave and says, “Brothers and Sisters I have none, But that man’s father, is my father’s son.”
Who is in the grave?
That man’s father is my father’s son” refers to the speaker. *Since he’s pointing to the grave, it means he’s in the grave.
A few days ago, I was invited to dinner at a friend’s house. The strange thing is, my friend recently got involved with some weird religious cult. While I was there, he served up some type of meat, but he wouldn’t tell me what kind of meat it was. It kind of freaked me out. For a second, I wondered if it was human meat, but then, after I ate it, I knew it definitely wasn’t human meat.
What’s really going on?
The guy who was invited over was a cannibal. How else would he have known it wasn’t human meat if he’d never had human meat, to begin with?
Top Short Story Scary Riddles
One day I was watching the news when the house I used to live in as a child came up on the screen. It was breaking news, the body of a young girl was found buried in the backyard. I was very shocked so I called my father to tell him about it.
Are you watching the news? I asked, distraught.
No, why? he replied.
Well, remember the old house we used to live in? I asked before delivering the news
A dead body was found buried in the backyard, the police are questioning the current owners now.
Well that is scary indeed
Right, dad? What if it was back there when we lived there, can you imagine us going about our life with a corpse in the garden? It gives me chills just by thinking about it.
Thankfully I never noticed a thing while we were living there, he said pausing and then continued talking with an affected voice still I feel so sorry for her parents, they must have been through hell
Yeah, they must have bee desperately searching, still don’t you wonder?
Son, I don't know who buried her there but I hope the police find them soon.
Yeah me too dad, I said chills running up my spine me too
The killer is his father as he didn’t say the person buried was female but his dad knew without having seen the news.
You are on the 9th floor of a building, it's dark outside and you are going to bed, but before sleeping you decide to refill your glass of water in the kitchen. Everything seems quiet outside so you decide to open the curtains and have a look to revel in the peace of the city street night. As you look down towards the street, you witness a murder inside one of the apartments in the building just across from you. The murderer then looks up and stares up at you. It is clear that you make eye contact and that you have seen him commit the murder. He then makes a gesture of up and down with his finger. Why is he making that gesture?
He is counting the floors of your building to find you, so better run.
A man was walking down the street when he suddenly started to choke the woman walking by him. He was taken to the police station but soon after was released.
This woman was his wife. Some years ago she staged her death and her husband was found guilty. He already got out of jail and now he cannot be convicted for the same crime one more time.
A man woke up at night feeling thirsty. Then he turned off the light everywhere and went to bed again. In the morning he woke up, looked out of the window and yelled. Soon after he committed suicide.
The man was the caretaker. Accidentally he turned off the lighthouse and it caused some shipwrecks. When he woke up, he realized what he had done.
Cindy is amongst a crowd of people when she is murdered. However, nobody notices her cries.
Cindy was in a movie theater, watching a horror movie. A very scary scene started. While everybody was screaming the murderer – who was behind her – was killing her.
Paul comes home tired. He goes to his room and turns off the light to sleep. After a while, feeling uneasy, he turns on the light and looks around. He turns the light back off and tries to sleep again. After repeating this several times, he takes a look under his bed and finds a dead body.
A thief was stealing from Paul’s home. When Paul arrived home, the thief hid under the bed. The tension became too much and the thief suffered a sudden heart attack Paul was unable to sleep due to the ticking of the thief’s wristwatch.
A little girl was warned by her parents never to open the cellar door. If she did, she would see things that they did not want her to see. One day, while her parents were out, they accidentally left the cellar door unlocked. The girl opened the cellar door. What did she see?
When the girl opened the cellar door she saw the living room and a beautiful garden through its windows. She had never seen these before because her parents had kept her in the cellar all her life.
A few days ago, I was invited to dinner at a friend's house. The strange thing is, my friend recently got involved with some weird religious cult. While I was there, he served up some type of meat, but he wouldn't tell me what kind of meat it was. It kind of freaked me out. For a second, I wondered if it was human meat, but then, after I ate it, I knew it definitely wasn't human meat.
What's really going on?
The guy who was invited over was a cannibal. How else would he have known it wasn’t human meat if he’d never had human meat, to begin with?
My mom treats my girlfriend like crap. Whenever we come over to visit, she never sets out a place for her. Today, when she was cleaning, she grabbed her and called her dirty and tried to throw her in the closet. That was too much for me. I shouted Mom! Don't treat Alice that way! My mom just looked at me and was all like Alice? Who the bleep is Alice? I can't believe how rude my mom is. Who is Alice?
Alice is dirty laundry. (Wow, weirdo…)
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