it was Halloween, and there were rumours going around about a masked slasher going around during the month of October, amplified by the mysterious disappearances of multiple people in your town

your parents were out of town, leaving you home alone for the week. It was the middle of the night, when the power went out. You went out to fix it, but the wires were completely cut, scattered in a mud puddle nearby.

you went back inside, and it was eerily quiet. It was pitch dark and your phone was dead. You swore you could hear quiet breathing in the darkness and a figure sometimes, but you brushed it off as paranoia.