Welcome to Scary Story podcast.

We have three short creepypastas today.

In the first, a dog seems to have a strange reaction to what lurks outside.

The second, about a kid's school tale, leads to an eerie discovery.

And the last, a hidden Wi-Fi network reveals something terrifying.

My name is Edwin, and here's the scary story.

I don't know how to explain this, but I heard my dog talk.

I was in the back room of the house.

It's what we call the second living room, the one that faces the yard.

I was by myself, with my mom calling in to check on us every hour or so from work.

By us I meant me and my dog.

Suddenly all of the lights turned off.

My dog Millard almost never left my sight when I was home alone, and this night there

was no exception.

He raised his ears as he looked around the house.

The only light was coming from the post on the corner of the yard, a dim, orange light that

broke through the branches and into the house from the glass-slighting doors.

We didn't have any history, per se, of ghosts or anything in the house, so I never felt

afraid of being in there. But on this particular night, everything was different. Even the way

Millard responded was different. The blackouts were becoming more frequent because they were fixing some

streets around our neighborhood, potholes and light posts and all that. But that meant that our

cable TV, and of course, the electricity, would be out for about an hour at night. That's what they

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