Supernatural Story Ideas
Supernatural premises with a single broken rule. Pick a line and write the consequence together, slowly.
- A bus driver realises every passenger on the late route is being driven to the same date in 1998.
- The corner shop sells one item nobody can ever quite remember buying.
- A church bell rings at 3:17am whenever someone in the parish lies.
- A toddler starts giving driving directions to strangers.
- An online psychic accidentally curses her own grandmother.
- A locksmith finds a key that opens a door that isn't there.
- A man wins an auction and inherits a thousand-year-old contract.
- A woman starts dreaming her neighbour's dreams.
- A washing machine returns clothes that were never put in.
- A grandmother's voice keeps coming out of the kettle.
- The town's traffic lights start blackmailing drivers.
- A village's lost dogs all return on the same day.
- A widow's husband returns as a wind that tidies the kitchen.
- A grandfather clock chimes one extra time every night.
- A grocery list rearranges itself into a confession.
- A grandfather's old fishing rod catches things that never lived in water.
- A village post box delivers letters to the recipient's past.
- A toddler points at a stranger and calls them 'mum' in a different language.
- A train guard finds a passenger who has been on the same train for forty years.
- A man's reflection learns to lip read.
Write one together
Pick any premise, drop it into Storybored as a story title, and write the next line each with 2–4 friends.
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