Episode 1 Script: The Dream Funeral. The Man in the Coffin

Episode 1: The Dream Funeral

The Man in the Coffin

By Grace Antiedu 

It began with a dream.

Nfor, a 46-year-old carpenter in the quiet town of Bamenda, had always been a sound sleeper. But one night, he jolted awake, heart pounding, soaked in sweat.

He had dreamed of a funeral.

Not just any funeral, his own.

He had seen himself lying in a white coffin, dressed in the same shirt he wore the day his mother died. The coffin was surrounded by people he didn’t recognize. Yet they all wept for him, some with real tears, others with a kind of uneasy joy.

He shook the dream off. Told himself it was nothing.

But the next night, it came again.

Same coffin. Same shirt. This time, he saw the church, a place he’d never entered in real life.

On the third night, the dream changed. He wasn’t inside the coffin anymore.

He was standing beside it.

Watching it close.

Watching himself buried.

Nfor’s days grew restless. He couldn’t work. He couldn’t eat. Even when he was awake, he felt the cold hands of the grave reaching for him. Something—or someone—was calling him to the other side.

The strangest part?

Each time he woke up, his left hand smelled faintly of earth.

Next: Episode 2 – The Witchdoctor’s Warning

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