3 True Home Alone on Rainy Night Horror Stories _ Vol. 2

I'm a twenty-six-year-old female, and it was October of last year when this happened.

The weather was getting colder, and we had a few days in a row of constant raining.

I didn't mind, as I spent most of my time working from home.

This day I'd gotten up early and started work, but around one PM, I was interrupted from my Zoom meeting by the power shutting off.

I knew right away it was the power to the whole house and not just my computer because all the lights went out too.

I quickly got my phone and held it up as a light source, then went over to the window to see if the neighbors were blacked out too.

It was really dark outside because of the clouds and heavy rain, but all the houses nearby still had their lights on.

Now I was a little worried that something was actually wrong with my house.

I left the room and went downstairs, getting a better flashlight and then heading down into the unfinished basement.

I maneuvered around in the dark through my stacked up storage boxes until I got to the electrical panel.

The main power switch was in the off position.

I'm not too experienced with these sort of things, but I did know that usually the switches would just be loose and not fully pushed the other way.

I flicked it back to the on position and everything immediately lit up and seemed to be working.

I shut the electrical panel and went back upstairs to my office, then waited for the internet and everything to get running before I rejoined the Zoom call and got back to work.

I was at my desk for the rest of the afternoon, working late to prepare a presentation for tomorrow.

I didn't finally close my computer until eight PM.

The storm was just as bad as before, but it was way darker outside, which made every flash of lightning beam through the windows.

I got up from my desk and opened my office door, but as I left the room, I heard a few bumps from downstairs.

I didn't think it was anything more than something blowing into the side of the house, but as I got to the bottom of the stairs, the power shut off again.

It caught me by surprise, even scaring me a bit.

I stood there for a moment and listened for something that might have caused it, but it was silent aside from the rain and thunder.

Even the bumps that I'd been hearing just seconds ago had stopped.

I went over and got the flashlight again and made my way over to the basement door.

I opened it and walked down to the bottom of the steps.

The sound of the storm was way louder than I was expecting, echoing through the room in a way that it wasn't before.