Mystery Writing Prompts

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.

You just found the cure to cancer and governments around their world are trying to silence you for profit… it turns out the cigarette companies hired people to keep you safe since their best customers would live longer

Captcha isn't about stopping bots. The "Are you human?" boxes to stop something far more sinister.

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.

You’re a park ranger of a very dense forest and you take care of everything, including the supernatural cryptids. One day, a murder happens in your forest and the culprit evades the authorities. You then politely ask the cryptids for their aid in the culprit’s capture. They agree.

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.

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.

A young fey creature just tricked you into giving them your name. They are now writhing on the ground in agony begging you to take it back. You have no idea what's going on.

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.

Both Sherlock Holmes und Dracula are set around the 1890s. So, technically, it would be possible that Sherlock was hired to investigate the deaths caused by Dracula.

Feeling adventurous, you decided to try crossbreeding two specific vegetables to see what would happen. Now, sitting in an interrogation room at an undisclosed location staring at very concerned men in black, you are about to learn why it's never been done before.