Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with “scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” or “forbidden” in the title.

The speaker draws a firm boundary around the kinds of stories, places, or plans they are willing to engage with, treating certain “ominous” keywords as automatic red flags. The humor comes from the exaggerated literalism: rather than weighing evidence, the speaker uses a simple heuristic—if the title advertises danger or taboo (“scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” “forbidden”), they refuse to proceed. As a piece of modern, conversational wisdom, it reflects a skeptical, self-protective stance toward thrill-seeking and a meta-awareness of genre conventions (horror narratives often telegraph risk in their titles).