Writing prompts for mysterious visions

 

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Looking for writing inspiration from beyond the veil? There are 6 posts on my Weird Wednesday writing prompts blog about mysterious visions!

A Peak in Darien: Visions from a Deathbed

The Wild Hunt: Ghost Riders in the Sky

Phantom Islands

Mirrors

The Third Man Phenomenon

And Crisis Apparitions:

The story goes like this: when someone is in a moment of crisis, whether it be death, near-death, or just a time of great anxiety, they can project an image of themselves to a loved one. The image can speak or be silent. It can look ghostly— someone floating above the floor, shining with radiance, or resting in a coffin— or it can seem exactly like a real person visiting. Many times crisis apparitions are comforting: a beloved family member coming to say a last goodbye.

A prompt:

Mass apparitions. So what happens if a whole bunch of people die at the same time? In Volume 2 of Apparitions of the Living, starting on p. 149, a case is described where an entire family died of illness over the course of a few days, and neighbors were visited with visual apparitions, and also heard a loud banging on their front door that somehow did not arouse the resident dogs. How powerful or terrifying could an apparition be if it belonged to a group of people all at once?

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