A ghost riddle is:
Q: What’s the hardest thing to sell to a ghost?
A: Life insurance.
The life insurance joke has been cited in print since at least 1992.
Google Books
102 Haunted House Jokes
By Ski Michaels
Mahwah, NJ: Watermill Press
1992
Pg. 52:
What’s the hardest thing to sell to a ghost?
Life insurance.
29 October 2003, The Monitor (McAllen, TX), “Weekly Writing Corner: Halloween Humor,” pg 8B, col. 8:
What’s the hardest thing to sell to a ghost?
Life insurance.
Ariana Maldonado, 4th grade, De la Vina Elementary
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