Historical Mystery Writing Prompts

 

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Want to write a mystery based on history? Check out my blog for 8 posts about the unsolved past, with writing prompts!

The Beast of Gevaudan: History’s most well-documented werewolf, France, 1764

The Female Stranger: unidentified decedent, Virginia (US), 1816

Spring-Heeled Jack: well-documented apparition or cryptid, England 1837-1904

The Flannan Isles Disappearance: three lighthouse keepers vanished, Scotland, 1900

The Star Tiger and Star Ariel, two planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle, 1948-49

Dyatlov Pass: mysterious deaths of 9 hikers, Ural Mountains, 1959

And the ghost ships Mary Celeste (1872) and Carroll A. Deering (1920, pictured above)

A ghost ship prompt:

A run of bad luck. Those on board a doomed ship might have invited a curse as the result of unwise decisions, whether that be mutiny, murder, or just generally running afoul of sea superstitions. If the crew themselves were cursed, or if they carried a cursed item with them, this could explain why a ship which picked up the crew also went down itself.

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