Paranormal Story Sparks: Random Paranormal Writing Prompt Generator

Something impossible happens. The question is what you do next.

A stranger dreams about disasters before they occur. Something enormous moves beneath an ordinary lake. A woman can hear thoughts belonging to people who are nowhere nearby. Every radio in a small town begins broadcasting the same unknown voice. A family wakes to discover that nobody outside their house remembers them.

Paranormal Story Sparks throws strange possibilities into the everyday world and lets you decide what they mean. Generate a spark and you could encounter a psychic ability, unexplained phenomenon, supernatural investigator, mysterious entity, cryptid, premonition, possession, strange location, impossible message, paranormal rule, discovery or reality-bending event.

This is the place for stories that sit beyond a straightforward haunting. The generator ventures into clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, mediums, supernatural abilities, cryptids, mysterious creatures, possession, unexplained disappearances, strange signals, altered memories, urban legends, impossible coincidences, supernatural investigations and places where the ordinary rules of reality seem to have slipped. Some sparks may lead towards horror or mystery; others could become paranormal romance, supernatural adventure, speculative fiction or a story where the unexplained is more wondrous than frightening.

You do not have to decide immediately whether your phenomenon has an explanation. Follow one result and build around it, combine several sparks into a larger paranormal mystery, or keep generating until you encounter something you cannot quite explain away.

Explore the Paranormal Writing Hub for more supernatural characters, unexplained phenomena, paranormal prompts and strange story ideas, or delve into the Creative Writing Archive for inspiration across ghost stories, horror, mystery, Gothic, fantasy and beyond.

There is an explanation. It just might not belong to the world you know.