“I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day. I knew it would come back to haunt me”

A boomerang pun was posted on Twitter on October 31, 2009:
   
“I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day. I knew it would come back to haunt me.”
 
The ghost joke has been popular around Halloween.
 
           
Twitter
Stubby TheHoboDummy‏
@stubbyhobodummy
I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day.
I knew it would come back to haunt me.
7:28 AM - 31 Oct 2009
   
Twitter
Nutty Jokes‏
@nuttyjokes
The other day, I threw a boomerang at a ghost. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
1:57 PM - 9 Mar 2010
 
Twitter
FunnyOneLiners‏
@Funnyoneliners
The other day, I threw a boomerang at a ghost. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
RT @nuttyjokes
6:31 PM - 11 Mar 2010
 
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of Jokes 2
By Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
The other day I threw a boomerang at a ghost. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
 
22 August 2014, The Daily Mirror (London, UK), “Bet of the Day” by Derek McGovern, pg. 46:
I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day. I knew it would come back to haunt me.
 
Reddit—Jokes
I threw a boomerang at a ghost the other day.
submitted October 16, 2017 by JCarp316
I knew it would come back to haunt me.