Episode 4 Script: The Room Opens. The Room that shouldn't be there

Episode 4: The Room that shouldn't be there 

The Room Opens

By Grace Antiedu.

3:11 am

Maleek stood barefoot in the hallway of his grandmother’s home, his small shadow stretched across the floor. The door was no longer painted on the wall.

It was real.

Wood- blackened and wet. Hinges twitching like veins. The handle was made of bone.

His grandmother, asleep on the sofa, stirred and gasped as the room grew cold. She turned and saw the door.

She screamed, but her voice didn’t echo. The house swallowed it.

“He’s ready,” Maleek whispered.

The door swung open on its own.

Inside: walls pulsed like flesh. The floor was moving breathing. There were faces in the darkness, pressed behind translucent skin, whispering.

And the man stood in the center.

Tall. Twisted. Wearing a child’s school uniform, Maleek’s.

He stretched out his hand.

“Come home.”

Maleek stepped forward.

Then—his mother arrived.

She didn’t knock. Didn’t hesitate. Just screamed her son’s name and ran toward him, shoving past the door.

The moment she touched him, the walls howled.

The man hissed, face unraveling like soaked paper.

“You cannot keep what I was promised!”

But it was too late.

She yanked Maleek back. The door slammed shut so violently the walls shook. And when they opened their eyes… it was gone.

No door. No hallway. Just a blank wall and a weeping mother holding her child.

They moved away that same week.

And though Maleek grew up safe and sound, he never walked down hallways after dark.

And he never again said the words "3:11 am."

 End of Story – “The Room That Shouldn’t Be There”

Next: A girl discovers a photograph in her grandmother’s trunk and realizes she’s in it, though it was taken 40 years before she was born.