Intro
Looking for a way to boost your creativity? This deserted town writing prompt is designed to spark your imagination and help you practice storytelling. Imagine stepping into a forgotten place that isn’t on any map, filled with crumblingbuildings, eerie silence, and an air of mystery. Your challenge is to finish the story below and bring the abandoned town to life with your words.
The Story Starter
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air.
Your Task
👉 Continue the story in the comments. Use your imagination to explore what happens next. Try to use as many of these words as you can in your writing:
- deserted
- town
- map
- crumbling
- eerie
- silence
- explore
- mysterious
- abandoned
- hidden
Will you describe something mysterious? Will your character discover a hidden clue or an abandoned home? Maybe the silence hides a secret no one was meant to find.
Why This Warm-Up Helps
This deserted town writing prompt isn’t just fun—it’s also a way to sharpen your storytelling skills. Writing about abandoned places helps you focus on descriptive language, mood, and setting. It pushes you to think beyond the ordinary and create something that feels real and mysterious. Plus, practicing creative writing with prompts like this makes your imagination stronger over time.
Task
Now it’s your turn! Scroll down and finish the story in the comments. Use the key words, build suspense, and see how creative you can get with this deserted town writing prompt.
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We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. Walking to an abandon house feeling an eerie smell coming from the house, walking into the house getting closer and closer to the eerie smell just kept getting stranger and stranger every second. When finally reaching the end of the house the eerie smell was gone even after searching and searching around the deserted town, and then came to seeing big and scary looking monsters running at you with so much forse. Running and running and reaching to a shed trying to hide behind all the shovels and boxes we seen a little girl and wouldn’t say anything until she seen us she looked so frightened thinking it was the monsters but we told her to keep quiet so the monsters wouldn’t find us. We looked out a little hole from the shed and seen the town was returned back to normal we all were so excited because we thought we were safe. Until we got out and seen monsters surrounding the shed we tried to close the door but we couldn’t they all came into the shed. Running out of ideas we tried to fight back but nothing was working, until they all just deseapeared and everything came back to normal and the deserted town was finally in a map and we all tried to tell our stories but no one would believe us.
If I were to explore a abandon house I would be so happy getting all these signs, answers, and getting to learn about what happens in the past. If I went ghost hunting i’d rather go with Sam & Colby because there my favorite ghost investigator on YouTubers and its always been one of my dreams to investigate with them. I love ghost.
I did what my mind tell me to do here’s the story: We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. When decide to be hidden until we now it’s safe after sometime we see there was no people therere so we decide to explore a little the houses were very small and all of them where kind of scary I guess they all look the same same figure same stuff we though that we were on a lop because there was a lot of them every single way we were super scary because we also din’t bring food or water so that makes it worst we decide to recheck the map and the deserted town was’t on the map I was gonna call the police but there was no signal I decide to explore a little more but then we notice that It’s about to come night I said this abandoned desert is gonna make me crash out and yep it turn night I said nothing can get worse but it’s like a witch throw me a potion to make the good stuff bad stuff because after I said that I see a shadow with figure of an human
I was so happy another human with us 😀 but again I talk so much and that was not an human I can’t describe how he is because after I see that he start running at us I get hidden into a house and then somehow I was back in real life and me and my friend never tell it to anyone
I did what my mind tell me to do here’s the story: We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. When decide to be hidden until we now it’s safe after sometime we see there was no people therere so we decide to explore a little the houses were very small and all of them where kind of scary I guess they all look the same same figure same stuff we though that we were on a lop because there was a lot of them every single way we were super scary because we also din’t bring food or water so that makes it worst we decide to recheck the map and the deserted town was’t on the map I was gonna call the police but there was no signal I decide to explore a little more but then we notice that It’s about to come night I said this abandoned desert is gonna make me crash out and yep it turn night I said nothing can get worse but it’s like a witch throw me a potion to make the good stuff bad stuff because after I said that I see a shadow with figure of an human
I was so happy another human with us but again I talk so much and that was not an human I can’t describe how he is because after I see that he start running at us I get hidden into a house and then somehow I was back in real life and me and my friend never tell it to anyone
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. It was mysterious, nobody came close to this abandoned town. mostly for how hidden, foggy, and spooky it was. But we went to explore the town anyway.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. We walked past a abandoned mineshaft that lead to a mysterious house, we walked in as we heard a eerie squeaky noise; little did we know it was a mouse, so it wasn’t too mysterious, it was more disrupting of the searching process. As we explored in the eerie silence, we found a hidden map under the crumbling hole in the roof, so we read the map but it was in this hidden code? I had one of my translators help translate this code, but it reads, ” I’m slow but eerie through the dark, silent but hidden under a crumbled rock, what am I?” It was some kind of stupid riddle, but we had to solve it in order to find this mystery. We went through every room and found a clue on this mysterious riddle, ” Hidden under a crumbled rock…” It’s the scroll of abandoned corps! We just have to explore the town in order to find it! Now that we finally have a lead on what this is, we just have to walk down this silent neighborhood and look for the Abandoned corps scroll; I found the house where the scroll is! Lemme see, its too queit, eerie almost… But I * Grunts * found the abandoned corps scroll! now we can finally get out of her- * Crumbling rocks fall to the ground, starting to get louder and closer as the time goes by..* WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW! Come on we need to go! * GRAH * I have to make sure you guys make it safe out of here. In order for that to happen, I have to sacrafice myself. * The investigator throws the scroll, getting absolutely crushed by the rocks.. his corps lying there eeriely silent. * We have to go and turn this in to the professor, thats what the investigator would’ve wanted. * They ride the car in a swift speed, only getting to the professor’s office to late.* * KNOCK KNOCK * Professor? are you there? * DING DONG * ” Ugh, I’ll be there in a moment. ” he whispered. * Door Creaked open * As the door opend quite silently, the professor came up out of nowhere all mysteriously; ” Well, seems as if everything went according to plan?” Yes professor! we have the abondend corps scroll! ” Well thank you for returning this…” he says in a weirdly odd tone of voice. That is how the mystery played itself out, the end.
I was driving home from work one day. I tried to use a short cut to get home faster like I always do but something seemed off maybe I took the wrong way or something everything looked eerie the I couldn’t see anything because of the fog only my headlights lit the road Infront of me. Not to far away only a few mins from where I was lost I saw a dim of light, but it looked to high to be the town sign I drove to it the fog cleared and I saw it it was about 3 stories tall the windows cracked and the metal gate creaking open as I got closer the abandoned house the silence was eerie it didn’t seem right it was hidden behind all of this woods and hills and fog. the roof looked like it was crumbling decaying from it being here for years. As I got out the car to look at the house I wanted to explore find out what happens here but as I walked in the house I woke up.
The deserted town was not on the map and it looked like this deserted town had not been torched in over 100 years. All the abandoned buildings were abandoned by the owners. The crumbling house still had hidden things like broken TVs and beds that were broken like someone had looted the house. There was an eerie that smelled like rotten food the clothes on the ground were all type of size some were big some were kid size and even baby clothes. I wonder what could have happened to this town and why people left their homes and why was this not not the map.
One day as I was um walking home at night then I came across some woods with a lot of trees and as I entered my way in there I heard noises I was probably just hearing stuff then I walked further the same thing I heard it again then I thought to myself “I’m not hearing stuff its probably a animal so I stated to run as I ran I came across a cabin which looked kinda old but I went inside there was spider webs everywhere but that didn’t really matter but then I heard a another noise so I got out quickly as I can and went running to my house cause I was five mins away but then I heard slow silent footsteps coming towards me and when I looked back there was nothing but then when I started to run something grabbed me by my foot a big animal and I woke up and realized it was just a dream.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. Then we want to go to the buildings to explore so we can find if anybody was there .Then we found someone but he wasn’t alive so we looked for another building to see if we can find any hidden clues. The town looked like it had been abandoned for years. There were so many unsolved mysteries about this place. It was so strange.
I was driving and stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. the buildings were nice but one of the buildings was crumbling. I drive past the building that was crumbling. the more I drive the more I remember I haven’t seen any people. I went to one of the stores in the town but it was abandoned all I heard was silence. I left and when I found a nice place to stop by, I saw someone wearing a red dress I ran to them and a girl looked like in her 30s. I ask about the place we are at and she says that “it was a new town and the old town crumbles because of an earthquake. lots of people die and we were building a town for the dead people”. I say “thank you” I left the place and found the round I was should had gone. I went to my mom’s house and went to the police and told them about the town. they went and never came back.
As the deserted town lay there, wasted and disheveled, I crept my way into the towns center. buildings shook violent with just the touch of a breath. I walked through the town, trash lay dormant, each step felt heavy like the air weighed more. it was burning, but moist in the shallow air. Not a single prick or grass in sight, all life dead except for me. Most of the conditions of the eerie buildings were awful, like a storm had struck, except for the most horrific building, the door was covered in this metallic smell, the walls stood, but not by much. I stumbled into the house, my legs grew weak, the thought of one wrong step causing the building to collapse on me was enough for me to watch every single step I took. The stairs were hanging by a thread, I walked, but then I stepped wrong and chipped a small piece of the stairs. The building growled angrily, a cracking noise filled the silent city. The crack ran up the walls covering the house in small spider web cracks. I sprinted to the only exist just for the door to be locked. I froze in terrier. The walls started caving in , with every muscle in my body I fought the door. Right before I would’ve been squished the door broke open and I leaped. dust covered the small town, I tucked my noise into my shirt, careful not to breath the dust in. I knew this town wasn’t safe. I ran as fast as I could to the edge of town, dust covered my vision. finally after what felt like years I made it out of the city.
We stumbled upon a town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was silence in the air. It looks like a hidden castle but it wasn’t just a castle it was also Witches and Wizards school, that Muggle-borns aren’t supposed to find out.
As we slowly walked to the deserted town that was 0 maps we snide a building crumbling. We heard nothing but silences and as we explored the town we got even more scared because we were seeing a bum walking on the streets and the werst part is hi is blind.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. We went to explore this old, dirty building covered with spider webs. As soon as we entered, we had a bad feeling. The building was dark with dust particles flying around. We took another step inside and suddenly, the door slams behind us. We both looked at each other with a scared and worried expression, walking up and trying to open it. It wouldn’t open so we decided to continue exploring, until we saw an eerie figure standing on the top floor, like it was looking down at us. I shined our flashlight at it to get a closer look and see if it was really a human, or worse, something creature like. As soon as the light hit the mysterious figure it disappeared. We were frightened by this and I decided to walk back but my friend was curious. I was urging him to follow me so we could attempt to leave through the cracked window. He didn’t listen and kept walking forward, until something appeared Infront of him. He screamed in terror and quickly ran over. I knew it was too late to exit through the window, so I barricaded myself with my arms and ran through the closed door. It barged open and we both gladly escaped. At the end, we decided to leave the town and never speak of it again.
It was a group of 5 people over 17, they discovered a abandoned house in the outside of the map, when they went it to see what was inside they saw something mysterious on the second floor they went in to explore what was inside, they saw figure across the house they went silence to not make any sound so that way they could catch the mysterious figure. They went far away from the enter, they were behind the figure when they step on something that make a crumbling sound, the eerie saw them and they where running for they life into they escaped the house and come to the deserted town and they told everyone was he and his friends saw, they were also filming and they got everything on camera and they posted so that way no ones go near the house.
I stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. there was gates to the town and that had peeked my interest as I pulled my car up to the gate it opened, I thought that was wired because I knew the gate wasn’t aromatic and even if it was the town was abandoned so the gate wouldn’t be working. As I drove into the town the gate had closed behind me the town looked mysterious and my curiosity was out of control. I got out of my car to look around and I had entered one of the buildings, and as I got in the door slammed shut at first I thought it was the wind but then I heard strange noises like whispering, as I moved towards the shut door. And as I got closer to the door I couldn’t open it, that’s when I got nervous I didn’t know what to do that’s when I remembered I was in an abandoned town witch meant it could of been a gost town so there must be a reason the door wouldn’t open. Then a huge gust of wind opened the door at the back of the shop that’s when I got in my car and left.
I work for a company where we try to find as much places as we can to fully document the Earth. Its places, environment, and more. I was assigned to explore the Earth’s locations that are unknown. I was alone. The eerie silence with nothing but the wind blowing. And there, I saw the place that I was assigned to document. An abandoned town. I pulled out my clipboard, ready to examine and add this place on file. But something was wrong about this place. The buildings were slowly crumbling down. It was worn down. Everything about this place was worn down. It smelt like rotten food and decomposing bodies. Gross. I had to put on a mask which barely did anything. It was still silent. I slowly started to explore each of the buildings. I creeped in the first building from what seemed like some kind of hotel. There was contaminated water, abandoned livestock, everything was old. After I was done documenting the place, I left the building, and stepped into the next building. Its reminisce that was once filled with happy customers was now rotten. This building stinked more. I quickly left the building and tried documenting from my memory. Then, I entered the last building. There was no smell, but I could feel something crawling up my leg. It was a cockroach. I quickly shook the cockroach off and ran out the building and marked it as contaminated. Cockroaches were known for carrying viruses and I was not about to catch one from something like 50 years. The whole entire town was deserted. I left the site and got back in my truck. It felt abandoned. I drove back to the company. But now everything was abandoned. Had this town cursed me?
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. The mysterious house was abandoned with silence I went inside to explore there was a hidden basement everything was crumbling. I went inside the Erie basement the basement was deserted with rats and molded foods I left the house.
When we stumble upon the deserted town, it was silent. No noise, just the sound on wind. Lights were flickering, broken houses and stores, trash on the floor, and more. We got clueless about why this town was abandoned. We wanted to make this eerie, abandoned, mysterious, and hidden town back to life. So we started recording to put on the news, about this sad and eerie place with no one here. When we finished recording, we started heading back to the car, when suddenly, we heard a voice. It sounded like a child, we followed the voice but when we got there, no one was there. We got scared so we left. But, something bad happens. A zombie pops out of no where, we started freaking out and multiple started appearing. There was 10 or 8, we had no gear but then when we started losing hope, we found weapons. We started hitting the close ones and we left after. We were so frightened, we didn’t think zombies would pop up. The next day, our video blew up fast, like really fast. It hasn’t even been 24 hours and it already blew up. The police department saw the video, and construction workers. Everyone in my town were frightened because the virus might spread and take over our body’s. But the police and medical doctors said that was taken care of. So everyone started cheering and clapping and wanted that abandoned town to regain its color. So, everyone worked together to fix it. Construction workers started tearing down the buildings and stores while the police searched the area. After 1 week, the town was fixed. People started living there, and our video made the news, we were happy we could fix the town. Then more and more people visited the town, everyday. And we got recognized for saving the virus from spreading. After all of that trouble, we started living a normal life.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. Then a car came from the trees and no one was driving car then a boy went to see but someone pull the boy in the car then boy hand came out from the car then blood then they start looking in the map but someone was hidden in the bed then look back and see someone hand coming out from the bed then they start running but the door was about to close but they manage to escape.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. When we stepped out of the car, there was a mysterious sound that we followed into a big, abandoned house. For a minute there was eerie silence. Suddenly I noticed a sign that said “Under construction,” so I walked out and left the mystery unsolved. What was that sound that we heard?
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air, a zombie pop up I hit the zombie and ran, I ran in a abandoned mall a mysterious clock dropped I explored and fell hidden a rat ran.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was just silence in the air. Lam and I went farther in the town to explore deeper, with full silence She stepped on some paper and it made a crumbling sound she froze and looked down it was a map of the abandoned town. We then heard a mysterious roar we tried to run out but the exit disappeared there was no way out, and we tried to run the other way and fell down the floor boards like if it was a hidden trap and, the roars got louder and we heard steps coming, we tried to get out but it was steep no way out.. we heard heavy breathing lam and I turned around, and it was just Angelo being Angelo he had fell trying to follow us but ended up in the hole as well.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. We then there was a spider on the ground There were roaches a zombie on the stairs he fell down the stairs.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. The whole town light was not working and it was night outside. At 2:18 pm. There was a weird noise, I looked outside and there were cats, they were abandoned. The cats were meowing and then 2 min later it was silent. Everyone in the town was scared because they did not know where they came from.Then someone called pet control. The pet control came and took half of the cats, the other half of the cats left. The town went back to normal and there were no more cats. No one knew how they came it was all mysterious.
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. There was a Mysterious abandoned mansion being investigated by a group called The Bean-lings which has 2 people named Janzen and Sammy they search for the secret rainbow kitsune
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. After a while of me standing there I heard a srangling sound and I was so scared. I turned around and it was this zombie with its brain and guts out green face blood around it mounth. I didn’t scream and I didn’t freeze I turned around and started running. The zombie was unbelievely fast and it cathced up to me it pushed me and I feel on the floor……
We stumbled upon a deserted town that wasn’t on any map. The buildings were crumbling, and there was an eerie silence in the air. We begin to enter this abounded, tall, and mysterious building. As we entered the building the lights started to flicker, you could also hear the crumbling as you stepped. Their was holes on the ground so we had to be carefully. Their was a eerie silence that was really creepy. We started to explore down stairs we didn’t see anything really weird. Then we went up stairs and that’s when things got scary it was really dark upstairs and really hot. Their was two rooms. We first went to the first room and the window was opened and their was a black cat sitting near the window. So we left the room then we went to the second room, and from that room the window was open also and you can see thousands of bats on the tree. We got scared and they came all in from the window attacking us. We ran out the house and we seen it darken but we didnt spend very long in there so we left and never came back.