Can you bear to read Twitter’s best #ScaryStoryIn5Words tweets? Image via Shutterstock
Twitter users have been getting into the Halloween spirit with the hashtag #ScaryStoryIn5Words, striking fear into readers using only a handful of the available 140 characters.
These epigrams of terror were sparked off by a request for scary stories by Comedy Central’s @Midnight game show for its regular segment, #HashtagWars.
Host Chris Hardwick challenged the show’s guests – director Kevin Smith, podcasting luminary Scott Aukerman and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman – to come up with some scary short stories of their own last Monday night.
Last night our panel brought the horror a week early playing #ScaryStoryIn5Words. Watch: https://t.co/n00VhaTjyQ pic.twitter.com/nNBGxPOO0T
— @midnight (@midnight) October 20, 2015
During the #HashtagWars, viewer participation is encouraged, with the best tweets getting a shoutout from the @Midnight Twitter account, while one tweet is plucked from the whole bunch for a special mention on the show.
"Your 45th President, Donald Trump!" #ScaryStoryIn5Words pic.twitter.com/l757wOEJyv
— Bob Melone (@BobMelone) October 20, 2015
Bae: "We need to talk." #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) October 20, 2015
As Twitter trends have a way of doing, the #ScaryStoryIn5Words hashtag escaped the confines of the @Midnight fanbase and ran wild across Twitter, keeping its momentum even after the show had aired. We’ve even had some chilling Irish examples.
#ScaryStoryIn5Words We've ran out of tea
— iRadio (@ThisisiRadio) October 20, 2015
You are now entering Roscommon #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— Ryan Cullen (@RyanCullen90) October 20, 2015
Stand clear. Luggage doors operating. #ScaryStoryIn5Words #spooky
— Derek O'Brien (@DirkVanBryn) October 20, 2015
Mammy with a wooden spoon #ScaryStoryIn5Words #growingupirish
— Gary Markey (@Gary_Markey) October 20, 2015
Unexpected item in bagging area. #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— Leighanne Somers (@LeighanneSomers) October 20, 2015
Some stories dealt with tragic circumstances.
No wifi. Forced to socialize. #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— Boredom Daily (@BoredomDaily) October 20, 2015
Star Wars 7 delayed indefinitely. #ScaryStoryIn5Words @midnight
— Brian Kachadurian (@toolguybak) October 20, 2015
#ScaryStoryIn5Words Phone battery about to die.
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) October 20, 2015
There is no more Internet. #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— Carter Reynolds (@carterreynolds) October 20, 2015
George Martin dead. Book unfinished #ScaryStoryIn5Words @midnight
— Charles Chase (@IAmCharlesChase) October 20, 2015
#ScaryStoryin5words Your boss finds your twitter
— David Hollywood (@dw00dz) October 20, 2015
Others were more… intimate.
There's no more toilet paper. #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— #ScaryStoryIn5Words (@SSI5W) October 20, 2015
Living Alone; Toilet was warm .#ScaryStoryIn5words @midnight
— SATYA is typing… (@POETICandFUNNY) October 20, 2015
Tweeted from toilet without washing. #ScaryStoryIn5Words @midnight
— Brian Kachadurian (@toolguybak) October 20, 2015
But the best (or should I say, worst!) of these scary stories will haunt you forever.
#ScaryStoryIn5Words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Monday.
— Nikita Gill (@AnOddity21) October 20, 2015
I saw your internet history #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— Dan Ellis (@dgellis0907) October 20, 2015
I could of bean their. #ScaryStoryIn5Words
— Liz Nugent (@lizzienugent) October 20, 2015
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