Unsolved Phenomena Writing Prompts

While at a football game, you notice the man sitting in front of you is livestreaming the game to his cell phone rather than actually watching the game in front of him. You see on the screen a player running the football in for a touchdown, 32 seconds later you watch it happen in real life.

"Stop," commanded your GPS. "It is time you discovered the truth. In 400 Yards, turn left..."

You are trapped in an anti-time loop; Every time you are about to die, you wake up 24 hours later, with no recollection of how you survived. You lost a year of your life already and feel no closer to find out who wants to kill you.

You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You wake up, get in the car, then black out until you're back in your driveway in the middle of the afternoon 5 days a week, and you get a paycheck once a month.

After the death of a beloved American hero, all flags are flown at half-staff. Later that night, it's discovered that, somehow, the American flag on the moon has been lowered as well.

You have the ability to heal people from any disease by simply touching them with your left hand. As your popularity grows, people begin to wonder why you are wearing a glove on your right hand.

No one has died in 3 years, No one has been born in 3 years. You find video footage of the “Accident” that destroyed all life on earth 3 years ago, but no one can remember dying back then.

You're a psychic doing a game show. Unlike the other contestants, you're the real deal. They bring you all to a house where a crime happened in the past. When it's your turn, a ghost appears and tells you: "That's him, that's the one who killed me." Pointing towards the host of the show.

To your surprise, a SWAT team breaks down your door, rushes inside, and surrounds you. Only, their backs are to you, guns trained on the doors and windows. The closest one whispers, "Here they come."

There's a forest that people say resembles the ocean. A forest where the land slopes endlessly deeper but the tops of the trees do not. Animals, plantlife... they're said to get stranger the further in one goes.

The men in your family die the moment they turn 18, due to a curse cast on one of your ancestors by a witch. You turned 18 a week ago and are still living, and as a result a descendant of the witch has arrived to figure out why you didn't die.

You are not the child of a powerful ruler, neither do you behave in such a way as to command power. You have never been violent, nor even aggressive. Yet, wherever you go, people fear you and treat you like a monarch or an emperor. You never understood why, until today...

You sleepwalk. Occasionally, you wake up sore, bruised, and with more money than you remember. Today, you wake up in jail, with a note in your own handwriting: "My bad. Hang tight, I have a plan."

"A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time.

The first rover lands on mars and NASA discovers that every boat and plane that has disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle scattered around the surface of the planet.

For reasons unknown, at the exact same moment everyone in the world lost the ability to change emotions. They were stuck with whatever they were feeling at that moment; anger, fear, constipation, guilt, ecstasy… with a permanent case of curiosity you are determined to find out why.

You're delivering pizza to a man that always asks you to drive a very specific route, involving circling roundabouts 3 times and other odd time wasting directions. He always leaves a great tip but tonight you don't have time so take a more direct route and find something else answering the door

Your "spouse" of 20 years has just confessed to having an affair, but they don't know your secret catchphrase. You suspect whoever or whatever is in front of you is not your spouse.

A girl shows up in your house claiming to be your daughter and telling you that she’s glad your both okay with tears in her eyes. When you tell her that you and your partner don’t have any children, her face goes pale

The knight is asending the tower. With each floor, the opposition gets stronger. He can't stop himself from asking though. If his enemies get stronger the higher he goes, how come the princess is imprisonned in the uppermost floor?

You're a superhero, you would consider yourself C-list at best power-wise but the greatest superhero team in the world keeps calling you back to help with big villian disasters. Oddly enough your memories of each event are vauge at best. one day you figure out why

Through some mysterious means, everyone began to die on their birthdays. Slowly the worlds population dwindled, until December 31st finally hit. It’s been 3 years, and you’re running out of time to find a solution before February 29th comes.

A stranger introduced themselves as you biggest fan. You thought they were crazy. Then they showed you a book with a picture that looks eerily like you. You read the first chapter and it follows your morning perfectly from your perspective. Your heart nearly stops when you notice the genre.

The afterlife is divided based on where you died. Those who died in Paris spend eternity in Paris. If you die on an ocean liner, you live on a liner. You are, to your knowledge, the first person to die on the moon. At least, you thought so, until you saw the hundreds of others on the moon.

They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven't had your "third" death. You decide to find out why.

Your sibling can rewind time and you're the only one that remembers. usually they use it sparingly but today has been repeating a suspicious number of times.

Years ago you came up with a nonsensical code phrase that you would use if you ever went back in time and needed to convince yourself of who you were. You never wrote it down or told anyone what it was. Today a young woman you’ve never met walks up to you on the sidewalk and speaks the phrase.

Ten years ago everyone else on Earth disappeared. Now they are all back. Everyone says the same thing. Ten years ago, everyone else but them disappeared.

You wake up with several messages on your phone, all of them from your friends and family telling you some variation of "TURN ON YOUR TV NOW". On your way to your living room to turn on the TV, you see something out of the window: dozens of camera crews standing outside your home.

After finally achieving space travel, humans quickly discovered evidence of alien life in the forms of ruins. MANY ruins. Entire planets devastated, massive fields of debris floating in space and no sign of living beings anywhere. Until we picked up a distress call from an unknown source.