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Mystery, a favorite among many since the clues and questions in the writing just makes you wonder and crave more. We all love a good page turner and if you’ve been thinking about writing something of mystery, it can’t get better than these mystery prompts XD
Writing prompts are meant to help inspire your own writing and for you to elaborate on further more than the prompts into a story. The details are for you to wove in and the ending for you to decide.
And here are 32 intriguing mystery prompts for you to release your wildest imagination on paper!
Let’s Start with these Mystery Prompts! :
1. She crossed into the haunted house. Nothing could ever prepare her for what she is about to encounter.
2. The serial killer wasn’t found for the past decade, and the police drawing of the murderer, looks exactly like your dad.
3. She loved collecting diaries, either from yard sales or a thrift store. Reading about other people’s lives had seen pretty cool, it had all been just a stereotypical it’s-a-good-day diary, until this one.
4. The amusement park has been abandoned for years, but the merry go around started turning.
5. He was a detective and she was his assistant, little did he know, she was who he had been searching for all these years.
6. “If you hadn’t did that, this wouldn’t have all ended up this way!” “Or would it?”
7. Everyone says your best friend had runaway, but you know differently, because you saw her being taken away.
8. “Don’t ever go digging in the backyard.” That was the only thing my dead grandma had said before she gave the house to me. And I’m never one to obey the rules.
9. You were writing your essay in a library, but a man suddenly came up and placed a note saying, “You’re not safe, run and leave when you still can.”
10. “Help me, please!” He begged, holding on to the edge. “You should’ve said that in the beginning.” I shook my head and smiled coldly. “It’s too late now.”
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11. “Truth or dare?” “Truth.” “Have you ever kissed someone?” “No, but I’ve killed someone before.”
12. You flipped through a library book about criminals on death row, and you started to notice that the person sitting at the library table, looks just slightly too identical to a photo.
13. He was the mysterious boy in school that no one approaches, because whenever one did, they were never seen again.
14. “He’s here.” She trembled as the door bell rang furiously with multiple pounds that shook the door. “He’s here.”
15. You’re an internet star, and you’ve had many letter of death threats, but none is as severe as this package you just received.
16. His tears streamed down as he laughed, “If only that was true.” He chuckled and held his gun. “But sadly it isn’t.”
17. You’re an top notch assassin, and you’ve just been assigned to kill a member of your family. The order also came from someone in your family.
18. Books and random things have always been piled underneath your bed. But how can you explain the fresh blood footprint going down under?..
19. “Bri! Where are you~” I walked through the corridor. “Come on ou—” Two pair of shoes stand next to mine, and I don’t recognize them.
20. “I’ve been waiting for you for the past five years.” He stood up from his chair. “Do what you were supposed to have done that day.”
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21. You’ve always lived alone, but post it notes started showing up everyday on your door. It reads the same thing everyday, “Miss me?”
22. You walk through an alley you’ve never went through and saw the graffiti paintings on the sidewalk ,and you realized they were trying to tell a message.
23. You were born and placed into one single room for 10 years with everything provided. Tell the tale of his vengeance to whoever that has done this to him.
24. You’re a employee at 7/11, and a frantic looking lady just came in with a note, “Help me, he has a gun.”
25. You just found an old photo in your attic that could solve the in famous death of…
26. You just went scuba diving and you might’ve just found a murder weapon or maybe it’s something else.
27. You went hiking and you thought you discovered a abandoned mannequin, but instead you found a body and it’s still warm.
28. The famous artifact was stolen but you were the last to see it recorded on the camera. So you’re quickly labeled the number one suspect.
29. You’re a famous surgeon and you know every part of the body, and when a dog brings you a bone in the forest, you immediately recognize it as an arm.
30. Your brother has a weird habit, and you never questioned it until now.
31. Gravediggers have always been a thing, but no one touches the cursed cemetery, until that one person comes in.
32. Your daughter had been missing for the past years, leaving only one note behind. And you wake up to your son gone with that same exact note left behind.
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