Supernatural Story Ideas

Supernatural premises with a single broken rule. Pick a line and write the consequence together, slowly.

  1. A bus driver realises every passenger on the late route is being driven to the same date in 1998.
  2. The corner shop sells one item nobody can ever quite remember buying.
  3. A church bell rings at 3:17am whenever someone in the parish lies.
  4. A toddler starts giving driving directions to strangers.
  5. An online psychic accidentally curses her own grandmother.
  6. A locksmith finds a key that opens a door that isn't there.
  7. A man wins an auction and inherits a thousand-year-old contract.
  8. A woman starts dreaming her neighbour's dreams.
  9. A washing machine returns clothes that were never put in.
  10. A grandmother's voice keeps coming out of the kettle.
  11. The town's traffic lights start blackmailing drivers.
  12. A village's lost dogs all return on the same day.
  13. A widow's husband returns as a wind that tidies the kitchen.
  14. A grandfather clock chimes one extra time every night.
  15. A grocery list rearranges itself into a confession.
  16. A grandfather's old fishing rod catches things that never lived in water.
  17. A village post box delivers letters to the recipient's past.
  18. A toddler points at a stranger and calls them 'mum' in a different language.
  19. A train guard finds a passenger who has been on the same train for forty years.
  20. A man's reflection learns to lip read.

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