Haunted House Riddles: 30 Spooky Riddles with Answers for Kids

I creak and I squeak when you push me wide. I’m the way the trick-or-treaters step inside. What am I?

I hang in the corners of rooms that nobody dusts. I’m gray, silky and a little bit sticky. What am I?

I’m the room at the very top of the house, full of old trunks, dusty boxes and forgotten toys. What am I?

I’m tall and thin, my head is a flame, and I cry tears of wax as I get shorter. What am I?

I have no feet, but I glide down the hallway. I pass through doors without ever opening them. What am I?

I’m a pumpkin with a face cut into me and a light glowing inside my grin. What am I?

I have a face and two hands but no arms. I stand in the hallway and chime at midnight. What am I?

What has lots of keys but can’t unlock a single door in the haunted house?

I fly out of the chimney at dusk and spend the day hanging upside down in the attic. What am I?

Why don’t ghosts like rain on Halloween night?

My eyes seem to follow you all the way down the hall, but I never move from my nail on the wall. What am I?

I go up and I go down, but I never move. In the haunted house, every one of my steps creaks. What am I?

In the dark hallway, I show you a face that copies every single move you make. What am I?

You carry me into the haunted house. I make a circle of light, and I stop working when my batteries run out. What am I?

Pull the right book off the shelf, and I swing open behind the bookcase. What am I?

Which room in the haunted house can a ghost never enter?

Take the first letter away from GHOST. What word is left, and who is that at a party?

I’m the dark room under the house where jars and old boxes are kept, and my name sounds exactly like a person who sells things. What am I?

All night long, someone in the tree outside the haunted house keeps asking, “Who? Who?” Who is it?

In the empty ballroom, I answer when you call, but I only ever repeat your own words. What am I?

A family steps into a haunted house at night. The power is out, and they have one match. There’s a candle, an oil lamp and a fireplace. What do they light first?

I lie flat under your feet, I’m made of wood, and in an old house I creak every time you step on me. What am I?

Three ghosts named Wisp, Misty and Boo float in the attic, the hallway and the cellar, one ghost per place. Boo is not in the cellar. Wisp is higher up than both of the others. Where is Misty?

I follow you through every room of the haunted house. I grow taller on the wall when the candle is low, and I vanish when the lights go out. What am I?

I go up through the roof, I’m black with soot inside, and the wind howls down me on stormy nights. What am I?

The more of me there is, the less you can see. Light a single candle, and some of me runs away. What am I?

There are 12 creaky stairs up to the attic. Every third stair is silent, but all the others creak. How many stairs creak?

Say my name and I disappear. In a haunted house, everyone holds their breath to keep me. What am I?

I rock back and forth on the porch all night long, but nobody is sitting in me. Only the wind is pushing. What am I?

I squeal on rusty hinges at the end of the front path. I’m part of the fence, and I’m the first thing you open on the way to the haunted house. What am I?