Probably one of the more interesting #writing exercises I've done: Draft an actual story first and then tell it from the perspective of a very distant observer who has basically none of the relevant information to make out what matters and what is happening https://ouroboros.cafe/stories/remember

Due to a rather embarrassing mixup, it is actually the murdered wife of an unfaithful doctor who has been haunting Europe for the past hundred years. The spectre of communism on the other hand has been somewhat pointlessly haunting a mansion in the British countryside

The United States have a town called North which lies in the south. The southern half of the southernmost Carolina to be exact. It also has three towns called West, not a single one of which lies in the west. Any insanity that springs from a nation so willfully opposed to truthful appellation should be utterly unsurprising

Cryptids or "Enigma Males" as the youths have taken to calling them...

Let me get this straight: British Columbia, which is neither British, nor in Colombia, is a state of Canada. While its largest city is Vancouver, its state capital is Victoria, which lies on Vancouver Island, unlike Vancouver. Have you considered just starting from scratch?