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3 True Rainy Night Horror Stories Vol. 2 (With Rain Sounds) That Will Keep You Awake · True Horror Stories

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: I was driving home from my friend's house. It was late.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly the time, but if I had
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: to guess, it was probably two or three am. I
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: lived twenty minutes away, which wasn't too far since most
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: houses around here are spread out. The rain and lack
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: of street lights made it hard to see, though, so
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: I was driving slower and more carefully. Five minutes down
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  Speaker 1: the road, I pulled up to a traffic light. I
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: had the red light, but there was a blue car
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: on the other side who was on the road partially
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: in the intersection. Its headlights and everything were on, but
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: it was just sitting there at a green light. I
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: couldn't tell if there was something wrong or maybe they
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: were asleep, but when the lights changed, I drove forward,
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: slowly maneuvering around them. I tried to discreetly look in
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: their car as I passed, but the rain on my
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: window blocked most of my view. Only a moment after
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: passing them and driving down the road again, the blue
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: car turned and started following me down the road, so
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: it wasn't broken down after all. I kept my eye
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: on the mirrors. I wouldn't consider myself a paranoid person,
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  Speaker 1: but the situation felt staged. Another minute down the road,
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: the car's headlights started getting brighter in my mirrors as
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: they pulled their car closer to what felt like just
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: a couple of feet from my back bumper. In weather
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: like this, that made me really uncomfortable. I looked back
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: at the road, but saw a small light pop up
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: on my dashboard. It was a signal that one of
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: my tires was low on air, a common signal, but
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: it felt like an odd time for it just to
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: pop up given the situation. I looked back in my mirrors,
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: seeing the cars still tailing me. They were so close
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: their headlights almost made it hard to even see the
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  Speaker 1: actual car. I was just four or five minutes away
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  Speaker 1: from home, nearing the entrance to the neighborhood, when my
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: dashboard started flickering a new signal, flat tire. My stomach
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: dropped the second I saw that signal. I put all
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: the pieces together and was almost one hundred percent sure
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: that this car behind me had done something. I drove
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: another minute, hoping to make it closer to home, but
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: I could feel my car sinking to the left, and
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: I was practically driving on the rims now. I had
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  Speaker 1: to pull over. The car behind me did the same.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: I should have called someone as soon as I parked,
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  Speaker 1: but I was so concerned and focused with what the
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  Speaker 1: person behind me was doing that it didn't even cross
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  Speaker 1: my mind. Though even if I did call someone, it
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have prevented what happened next. Once parked, three
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: doors opened from the car and three men came out.
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  Speaker 1: I only had a few seconds to prepare and react,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: but I was helpless and defenseless. They ran up to
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  Speaker 1: my car, two on my side and one on the other.
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  Speaker 1: One of the men came right up to my window,
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  Speaker 1: yelling at me to open the door and pointing a
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: gun at me. It happened so fast I was just
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: in some dazed state. I started to reach for the door,
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: but the man by the back door smashed something against
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: the window, shattering it, then reached his hand in and
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: opened the back door. They were all still yelling, both
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: at me and at each other. The man in the
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: back reached across opening the other back door, then reached
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  Speaker 1: in front of me to open my door. I was
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: still just sitting there, holding my hands up now to
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  Speaker 1: show I wasn't a threat. I knew there was no
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  Speaker 1: way out of this, even if I did have a weapon.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: Once my door was open, the man with the gun
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  Speaker 1: pulled me out of the car and slammed me on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. The oddest thing is, while I was on
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: the ground looking out into the rainy pavement, all I
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: was thinking about was how cold and wet the pavement.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Was not about how I had a gun being pushed
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: into the back of my head or that I was
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: being robbed and beaten. I think it was my head
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  Speaker 1: trying to distance myself from the traumatizing situation I was in.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't on the ground for long before the men
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  Speaker 1: by the car called out and the guy holding me
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  Speaker 1: down hit me in the back of the head, causing
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  Speaker 1: me to recochet off the pavement. I wasn't even sure
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  Speaker 1: if he hit me with the gun or just his fist,
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  Speaker 1: because I was already numb. I'm surprised it didn't knock
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  Speaker 1: me out, though I heard their car doors close and
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: then driving away. I rolled over, still in a daze
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: and tried to pick myself up. They'd taken my phone,
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: so I was forced to drive my car home and
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  Speaker 1: call the police when I got there, which ended up
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: denting and damaging my rims. Anyway, the investigation went nowhere,
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: determining only that the suspects had purposefully placed small tire
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  Speaker 1: spikes in the road at the intersection I crossed them at.
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  Speaker 1: I got lucky to have only hit one spike and
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: four to have caused less damage than usual. They likely
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  Speaker 1: planned to ambush me as soon as I hit the trap,
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  Speaker 1: but in the end it didn't make a difference. I'm
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: twenty four and I lived alone with my dog Bear
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: in a cozy town home up until three months ago.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: I moved in when I turned twenty two, having a
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  Speaker 1: decent enough job. I loved the home, being the first
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  Speaker 1: place I'd ever rented for myself, but two years of
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: happy living was ruined by this one night. It was
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: gloomy outside and raining quite a lot. It was my
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: day off, so I was sitting on a chair in
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  Speaker 1: my living room scrolling off my phone. It was eight pm,
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  Speaker 1: which was just an hour before I usually went to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Bear had been sitting by the back door for a
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: while looking outside. He started whining and ran up to me,
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  Speaker 1: which was his way of communicating to me that he
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: needed to go outside. I got up and let him out,
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  Speaker 1: then closed the door and stood in the kitchen. While
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: it was just a town home, there was a small
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  Speaker 1: fence separating the backyards, so I didn't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about Bear running away or anything. Also, I shouldn't mention
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: that Bear isn't a large dog at all. He's just
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  Speaker 1: fluffy and small, like a teddy bear. Not long, maybe
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty seconds after I let him outside, I
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: heard him whimper and bark. It was very clearly a
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: cowering bark, like he was running away from something. It
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: scared me, and I rushed to the door and looked out,
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: seeing Bear running back towards me with his tail between
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  Speaker 1: his legs. Once he was inside, I leaned my head
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: outside and scanned the back yard, expecting a coyote or
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: something to be lurking by the fence, but nothing was there.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: I made sure Bear was okay and locked up my door.
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: He never does anything like that, so that made me
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  Speaker 1: really worried for him. I let him sit on my
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: lap for the rest of the night. Through the next
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, he was constantly perking his head up and
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: staring at the windows and doors, a different one each time. Then,
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: after forty five minutes of sitting there. Bear turned his
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: head and stared at the window behind me, lowering his
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: ears and growling. Bear, I said, turning to look where
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: he was looking, and right in the window, just a
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: couple feet from us, was a man staring back at me.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: He was almost right up against the glass. I jumped
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  Speaker 1: up and screamed, stepping backwards. The man sprinted away down
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: the side of the house. Bear started barking again from
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: the sudden chaos. I closed the blinds and checked all
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: of the others, making sure they were closed as well.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: From the quick glimpse I got, I didn't recognize the man.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was, or what he was
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  Speaker 1: doing here, or why he was staring at me. I
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: tried to listen for any more indications that he was
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  Speaker 1: still around, but the rain outside was too loud, covering
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: up any possible sounds. Bear seemed calmer, though, so I
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: stayed up for a while longer just to be safe,
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: then went upstairs and had Bear sleep in my room
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  Speaker 1: with me. It took a long time for me to
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: fall asleep, having a lot on my mind, but after
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: an hour or so I slowly dozed off. When I woke,
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: Bear was standing up right by the bedroom door, staring
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: at it. This was a freaky thing to see, waking
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night. But not even
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: seconds later I heard something below me, a man talking,
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: and not long after a man on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the house talking back. Their footsteps were loud, and
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: they didn't even seem to be whispering either. It was
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: like they didn't care if I knew that they were
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: inside my home. My bedroom door was locked, but I
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: had nowhere else to go. I went over to Bear, quietly,
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: trying to keep him calm, then picked him up and
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: went over to the corner of my room behind the bed.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: It took me a while to realize, but then it
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: struck me that I hadn't heard any noises at all
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: in the past minute, no steps or voices. This was
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: when I took my phone out and called the police,
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: whispering as softly as I could as I told them
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: my address. Bear started a low growl, then began barking
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: and whining. As two sets of footsteps started making their
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  Speaker 1: way up the stairs. I begged for the operator to
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: send someone immediate. The two men started talking to each
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: other again, but it was hard to make out their words. Hey,
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: we just want to talk. We're not here to hurt you,
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  Speaker 1: I screamed, saying I called the cops and for them
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  Speaker 1: to leave. I was panicking, not knowing what else to do.
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  Speaker 1: There was a pause afterwards. We're here to help you,
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  Speaker 1: one of the men said. I didn't respond, as I
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: was busy trying to muffle my crying. Opened the door.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: It got quiet again. I could only hear them breathing
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  Speaker 1: behind the door for what felt like a whole minute,
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  Speaker 1: before one of them walked back down the stairs. I
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: couldn't tell where they went downstairs, or if they'd left
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: or not, but I was sure that it was just
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: one set of footsteps that left the bedroom door. It
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  Speaker 1: was so quiet, though, and I couldn't hear any breathing.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: In the far distance. The soft sound of sirens started
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  Speaker 1: to get louder. A sense of safety was finally coming back.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Once the sirens got closer, I heard footsteps running out
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  Speaker 1: of the house downstairs, but now I was unsure of
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: where the other man was. It seemed really unlikely for
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  Speaker 1: him to be by my door still, but I could
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: swear I never heard him leave. I waited for the
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  Speaker 1: police to pull up and make their way inside I
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: heard them searching downstairs, then slowly make their way upstairs
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  Speaker 1: and knock on my door. I almost didn't want to answer,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: still thinking that other men had to be somewhere nearby.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: When I opened the door, though it was just an officer,
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  Speaker 1: I immediately told him about my concerns. He directed me out
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: of the house as one of his partners continued searching,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: but nobody was found. The only thing they were able
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: to find was watery footprints all around the house, as
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: well as an unlocked window, which, to be honest, I
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure if I kept locked or not. It terrified
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: me though, feeling so confident that the other man was
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: still there, never hearing him leave, but then there being
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: no trace of him. It made it impossible to sleep
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: at night, having this feeling of someone still in the
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: house watching me. I moved out three months ago. It
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: was too much stress on my mind having a loose
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  Speaker 1: end like that, especially since neither of them were ever
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: identified or arrested. There was no clear intention the men
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: had either, which is just another question added to the
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: list of uncertainty. Even now, living miles away in a
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: new apartment, I still sometimes feel like I'm not alone.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: I work at a convenience store at the corner of
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  Speaker 1: a small shopping strip. It's basically a smaller local version
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  Speaker 1: of a seven to eleven. I worked morning shifts for
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: a while, which started at three am and ended at
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  Speaker 1: one pm. I agreed to these shifts because they were
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: always the slowest and require the least amount of work.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: All the parts of my job included tending to customers,
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: filling the shelves, and taking out the trash, which pretty
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: much meant I had nothing to do. It was the
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: middle of winter at the time this happened, but I
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: live in a warmer state, so it usually rains instead
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: of snows. It was a light poor outside, but it
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: was enough to keep most people away. On early mornings
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: like these, I like to lean against the front of
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: the building outside and smoke to pass the time. I
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to, but there wasn't anyone to stop me.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Along the shopping strip where maybe eight or nine other
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: stores connected to hours, All of them were stores with
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: normal hours, so none of them were at were open
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: until around six or seven in the morning. So when
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: I saw a car pull into the parking lot while
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: I was smoking outside, I of course assumed they were
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: coming to the convenience store. I burned out my cigarette
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: and tossed it in the trash, then headed back inside
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  Speaker 1: and around the corner. There really was nothing to do,
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  Speaker 1: so I was just waiting for the customer to come
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  Speaker 1: in and leave so I could get back to being
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: bored alone. After a few minutes of nobody coming in, though,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I walked back around the corner and checked outside the door.
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  Speaker 1: The car was still there, parked in a parking space nearby,
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  Speaker 1: but the headlights were off and as far as I
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: could tell, nobody was inside. Again. It was lightly raining
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: outside and all the other stores were still closed, so
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: I was a bit confused as to where they went.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: I took one last look around, seeing nobody, then closed
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  Speaker 1: the door and went back inside. Thirty more minutes of
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: nothing went by, and I I think I was just
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: standing in the same spot behind the counter for the
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: whole time, spacing out. I checked the time, seeing I'd
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: only been at work for a little over an hour,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: and decided I should check the trash cans around the
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: store and toss them in the dumpster out back. I
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: walked around to each trash bin, putting the bag in
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: the cart and replacing it with a new bag. As
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I was doing this, I heard a faint click sound
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: come from outside. It sounded like something snapping or breaking,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: but between the rain hitting the roof and the sound
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: being somewhat far away, it was impossible to tell what
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: it was or where exactly it came from. In the
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: moment it happened, though I barely even thought about it.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: It just didn't seem like anything worth thinking about, just
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: another random sound that these old buildings made. Once I
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: filled the cart with all the trash bags, I rolled
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: it into the back room and unlocked the back door
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: that led to the dumpster. I sighed, seeing as the
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: rain was pouring down harder now, of course, right when
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I actually needed to go outside. Regardless, I pushed the
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  Speaker 1: cart through the rain and over to the dumpster, which
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: was directly across from the door. After tossing in all
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: the trash, I turned back and started heading for the door,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: but I noticed something was out of place. The store
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: directly connected to mine had its door wedged open. I'd
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: never seen anyone there earlier than six, so it made
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: me think. I went back inside to get out of
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the rain and went out to the front door and
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: looked at the other store's door. All the lights were
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: off and it looked locked up and empty, like it
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: always was. At this time, I thought for a few
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: more minutes before figuring I had nothing better to do
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and went back outside by the dumpster and walked up
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: to the open door again. All the lights were off,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: but it seemed to lead into a small closet type room,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: which then had another door, probably leading to the main storeroom.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I stepped inside, standing in between the doorway so as
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to not make it seem like I was trying to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: sneak in or something. Standing inside, now, I could hear
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: someone moving around in the other room, walking opening drawers.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: It sounded like they were making a mess, which then
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: got me thinking even more, Hey, is everything okay in there?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I called out, hoping to get a reassuring response from
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: a neighboring store worker. The noises stopped. I waited a
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: few seconds before I realized that this was not normal
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and something was definitely wrong. I stepped back outside and
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: into the rain. As I quickly made my way back
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to my store, I recognized something was missing from the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: door I had just left. It took a second to
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: figure it out, but then I saw that there was
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: no handle. It was just an empty hole where the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: handle and lock usually are. Then I looked down at
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the wedge that was holding the door open, seeing now
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that it was actually the broken door handle. I ran
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: back into my store, locking all the doors and called
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: nine one one, as well as my store manager. Once
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I knew they were on their way, I went up
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to the wall connecting our stores and put my ear
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: against it, listening to the suspected robbery taking place. Whoever
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it was had to have known that I called the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: police because they were moving quickly, now running all around,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: tossing or knocking things over. After thirty seconds to a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: minute of this, I saw lights flash outside and heard
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: sirens approaching the back of the building. The footsteps quickly
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: moved to the back of the store before a bunch
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: of loud yelling came, which I assumed was the officers.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I checked out the back door after a minute, seeing
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a less hectic scene, and walked out to talk to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the officers. I thanked them for coming so quickly and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: gave them a statement. The man who was arrested was
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: found with a pillowcase full of nearly six thousand dollars
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: worth of stolen items. He also had an empty firearm,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: along with a variety of tools used to break down
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: doors and locks, and unknown to me, he'd also broken
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: into the store two spots down as well. It's unclear
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: whether or not the man knew I was working at
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the time, but my store lights were on, so it
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: isn't likely that he would have broken into my store,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: but several large scratches were found on the back of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: our door handle, which may have been from a previous attempt.