Unsolved Phenomena Writing Prompts

Anonymous "Hero" donates human kidneys, blood, eyeballs, and various organs to the hospital every week. The number now tallying in the hundreds. Doctors and news outlets are wondering where they acquire them from and whether it is ethical to use them. Surprisingly, its not a serial killer.

You are a Police Officer running a routine traffic stop. As you approach the window, the driver says, “Get it over with and kill me.” You ask, ”Why would I kill you?” He says “If I knew that, Officer, this loop would’ve ended a long time ago.”

When humanity finally set foot on the first habitable planet outside of the solar system we were surprised, and saddened, to find the ruins of an advanced civilization. We were even more surprised, and confused, when we determined these ruins to be of human origin.

You wake up with what feels like a terrible hangover, the dilapidated room around you is unfamiliar and you are chained to the bed, written on the ceiling is the message "If you can read this you're human enough to use the key on the nightstand"

You give the weird kid from school a chance, many years later you both are married on the couch watching a news broadcast. The broadcast is about a young boy who vanished with no trace. What struck you as odd was that the boy looks identical to your husband when you met all those years ago.

You're a boy who has watched as, once a year, your father and all the men in the world disappear for a day. Your mother always assures you that everyone is alright, but you're terrified because, this year, you legally become an adult.

For reasons unknown, an immortal beast has been dropping off random trinkets at your ancestral home for generations. They're all kept in storage; nobody dares throw them away. Today instead of a trinket, the beast leaves a note with instructions on it.

As one of the astronaut on the ISS you and your colleagues watched in horror as the Earth descended into nuclear chaos. You were certain that you were going to die up there, but even though there is no one left on Earth to answer your radio calls you still receive regular supply shipments.

Centuries into a generation ship's journey, the ship has a constant plethora of tiny issues and malfunctions overlooked by most of the crew's mechanics in favour of the larger issues. In your off-time, you decide to start fixing some of these minor issues and discover some interesting functions.

You tried an online ancestral DNA test just for fun. To your surprise, just after an hour, the FBI broke into your house and arrested you.

Your starship was badly damaged during a routine cargo run. Your distress beacon was answered by a ship full of immortal and beautiful people. You now sit at a bar, trying to make heads or tails as to why they won't let you go after your ship was fixed.

You suddenly gain the uncontrollable ability to "jump" randomly through time. It was difficult to adjust to the changing time periods until you encounter an elderly version of yourself, who hands you a worn out journal, detailing every date and destination of your jumps in the future.

Your job is to guard a button that no one may push. Things get complex when both legendary heroes and villains arrive to attempt to push the mysterious button. Everyone seems to have a different idea about what the button does, but they all want to push it.

You and several other scientists agree to be frozen in hopes you’ll have more time to find a cure for a plague that has wrecked havoc on the world. It’s finally your turn to wake up. The others’ notes say you’ve only been asleep for 60 years, but the dust and ruin around you says otherwise

You are a vampire, and as far as you know you were born one. That's what your mother has always told you, of course. But today you ran into a vampire hunter on your way to you cottage, he didn't attack you, however, he only said two words: "Poor thing."

Many gunslingers carve notches into their weapons each time they kill somebody. One day a stranger arrives in town. The metal of his gun(s) is completely covered in notches.

Whenever someone is buried in your town, plants grow and surround the grave, representing what sort of life they lived. When a pillar of the community dies, their grave is covered in thick, gnarled brambles.

You came home from work early and when you entered your bedroom you heard your spouse exclaim "It's not what it looks like!" in surprise. But after taking in the scene for a few minutes you have to admit that you have no clue *what* exactly you are looking at.

"Sir, we found the ghost ship The Delenora." "Where is it?" "In... Um... The Bridgewater Triangle.." "You mean Bermuda Triangle?" "No... It's in the middle of the woods in Massachusetts..."

You and your crush made a promise back in highschool, "If we are still single by age 30, we'll get married." Well, the morning after celebrating your 30th birthday, you hear that your old crush's grave has been dug up during the night.

An Elf wakes up one day to suddenly realize that their human spouse hasn't aged a single day since they met 50 years ago.

You are born with a large birthmark on the back of your hand that looks like an arrow. On your 18th birthday you notice that it starts pointing in one direction no matter which way you're facing. You decide to start walking in that direction.

"Your job is to sit in this room and answer this phone. No matter what you are asked or told, no matter what the voice sounds like, respond only with 'yes' or 'no', whatever feels right. And never, ever say your name. Hang up only after it does."

All mirrors in the world suddenly stop showing reflections. After a few days of worldwide panic, they slowly begin to reveal something else.

"And in this painting is Lord Straten, who had this castle constructed for his beloved daughter after she developed a severe sunlight allergy. In fact, she still resides here, even today!" "Wait... isn't this castle, like, two hundred years old?" "Why, yes, it is! Two-hundred-and-nine."

Your new friends are really obsessed with the upcoming full moon. You thought nothing of it until you overheard them guessing and gossiping about what "species" you could be.

Despite learning from one of the greatest wizards in the world, you're utterly horrible at magic. Then you discover why: he/she deliberately trained you incorrectly as a sick joke.

After inventing time travel, you send agents back in time to change the future and conquer the world. Instead you get back several dead agents and a note saying “Never try that again.”

Your name, your face are everywhere! From massive global celebrations, to tons of fan mail, everyone is treating you like the biggest hero-celebrity in the history of the world. There's just one tiny issue- you haven't the foggiest idea why.

As soon as the titan materialized, it pointed down to single person and declared in its booming, dreadful voice, "THIS ONE IS CORRECT." Then, without elaboration, vanished without a trace.