On Halloween night, after filling his bag with candy, a teen decides to take a shortcut home through the cemetery. The moon is hidden behind drifting clouds, the wind howls through the trees, and every crunch of his footsteps on the gravel makes his heart race. Halfway across, he’s startled by a faint tapping noise echoing through the misty shadows.
Trembling with fear, he finally spots an old man chipping away at a headstone.
“I thought you were a ghost,” says the relieved teen. “What are you doing working so late?”
“Oh, those idiots,” grumbles the old man. “They misspelled my name!”
Explanation: The joke plays on the spooky Halloween setting where the teen expects something supernatural in the cemetery. Instead of a ghost, he finds an old man fixing a tombstone. The punchline “They misspelled my name!” is funny because it implies the man is actually the deceased, casually correcting his grave.
