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In the Kitchen



Estimated reading time — < 1 minute

A young girl is playing in her bedroom when she hears her mother call to her from the kitchen, so she runs downstairs to meet her mother.

As she’s running through the hallway, the door to the cupboard under the stairs opens, and a hand reaches out and pulls her in. It’s her mother. She whispers to her child, “Don’t go into the kitchen. I heard it too.”

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98 thoughts on “In the Kitchen”

  1. Okay first of all, I’m bringing a shotgun anytime I go into the kitchen. second of all, wouldn’t you call back to your mother asking her what the hell she wanted, and third of all, if you knew that there was something in the house… wouldn’t you call the fuckin police

  2. Zacharie the Merchant

    I have heard many variations of this story, yet it still does not fail to amuse me. A very good short story to tell at sleepovers just as everyone is falling asleep.

  3. Oh my fcking good this is great!!! I’m so scared I’m crying alittle and it’s so short too, this is so fantastic…

  4. John Pugh:
    Get the hell out of the house, duh! Who would want to have to make that choice?

    Whaaaat? I would run the fuck into the kitchen because of my undying curiosity! Then again, I AM using pastalogic…

  5. Plot Twist: Her mother is a Lesbian, she actually has 2 Mothers, and they’re playing a prank.”Spookiness” of the myth broken.
    You’re welcome.
    Haha!

  6. I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Migel:
    I have a theory. What if it happened like this? The impostor who could have been a long lost twin sister who wanted to take her sister’s life(pretend to be her). walked into the house while the real mother was cooking/cleaning in the kitchen and the daughter playing upstairs, walks toward the kitchen to kill the real mother then hears the girl running downstairs, runs into the cupboard to avoid being seen, pulls the daughter in, then leaves the girl inside and pretends to go “investigate”, then goes to the kitchen to kill the mother, hide her body, and then pretend to be her when she lets the girl out of the cupboard?

  7. I have a theory. What if it happened like this? The impostor who could have been a long lost twin sister who wanted to take her sister’s life(pretend to be her). walked into the house while the real mother was cooking/cleaning in the kitchen and the daughter playing upstairs, walks toward the kitchen to kill the real mother then hears the girl running downstairs, runs into the cupboard to avoid being seen, pulls the daughter in, then leaves the girl inside and pretends to go “investigate”, then goes to the kitchen to kill the mother, hide her body, and then pretend to be her when she lets the girl out of the cupboard?

  8. Another version: you wake up in your bedroom because you heard your mother calling you from the kitchen and while you run out of your room your closet door makes a crack sound and in the closet a voice that says”Don’t go into the kitchen my dear, I heard it to.

    What would you do

  9. My answer is I’ll see who it was but if I don’t have the guts to do that I’ll run as fast as I can out of there
    !!!!!!!

  10. Very intriguing. I would thoroughly enjoy this if it were made longer.

    I rate this 5/10!

    Sincerely,
    Grim Gamer

    I’m sorry, I have to say this…BUT WHO WAS THE THING?!!

  11. Anonymous:
    i know another version : You wake up in your bedroom because you hear your mother calling you from the kitchen.

    As you’re about to exit the room, the door to your wardrobe opens a crack and a voice tells you : “Don’t go into the kitchen darling, I heard it too.”

    What would you do?

    Shit in my pants knowing the fact the someone is in my closet.

  12. i know another version : You wake up in your bedroom because you hear your mother calling you from the kitchen.

    As you’re about to exit the room, the door to your wardrobe opens a crack and a voice tells you : “Don’t go into the kitchen darling, I heard it too.”

    What would you do?

  13. It was cold in the kitchen and the lights were low,
    As winter wrapped around Chicago…
    Oh, wrong “In The Kitchen.” XD (Those of you who don’t get it, those are the lyrics to the song “In The Kitchen” by the band Umphrey’s McGee. Look ’em up!)

  14. “As she entered the cupboard, her cellphone’s message tone beeped. She read the message, “I’m gonna be late, have to finish some report for my boss. Love you. -Mom”

  15. my guess is the thing in the closet is the fake one because why would the mom already be in the closet, unless she already knew te thing was there but why would she hide an not warn the daughter first otherwise she would have like a split second to get in the closet before the daughter saw her

  16. The fake one could have also actually been under the stairs because if it really was the real mom how the fuck did she get under the stairs so fast without her daughter seeing her at least enter if she went downstairs immediately, that’s because she couldn’t have because she was already waiting under the stairs for the daughter to come down

    And if it was the real mother why would she be hiding instead if getting her daughter the fuck out if there braise usually a mothers instincts would be to save their daughter instead of hiding and waiting for whatever the dock is in the kitchen I notice how long it’s been since they called the daughter and go searching

    Note: (these are just possibilities I’ve listed I actually do think it was the mother who was under the stairs lol)

  17. They tried to make it seem like the fake one was the one in the kitchen but really the fake one was the one under the stairs because why the fuck would the mother be out if the kitchen in the first place?! (Lol)

    1. Further adds to suspense, in my opinion. Had she already been hiding? And how long? Was the creature aware the Kim’s home? If so why not kill her? If not, how did she emulate her?
      So many questions unanwsered, adding to this pastas greatness, again, in my opinion

  18. As soon as I was halfway through reading this…I heard scrambling noises in my kitchen…o.o I am not leaving this bed…

  19. Wasn’t this already on the site?
    Or did I read it somewhere else?

    I don’t normally read pasta other places so I dunno

    1. I wish you bleeding cracks would quit with these jokes. They were funny…once upon a time. It’s time for a new joke, I think.

  20. The Awkward Dancer

    Awkward moment when you tell this to your 10 year old cousins and their mother calls them into the kitchen…

  21. What if the mom in the closet is the fake mom, and the real mom was calling to her kid to get her out of the house?

  22. @Monique: Agreed. Whether it’s been done before or not, good pasta gets around the table a few times.

    The fact that the mother is under the stairs leads the reader to believe that its safer than running for the door. I enjoyed it, thanks for sharing seconds, or was it thirds?

  23. Doesn’t need to be worked on, or added too. Its creepy AF as it is already. Leaves you to create your own solution as to find out whats in the kitchen, making you use your twisted and disturbing side of your imagination. I love this pasta, very filling :) no gore/blood etc to give me chills.

    1. You’re right in the 0 gore factor respect. Excessively gory pastas like Squidward’s suicide (But not as well written) sometimes are reads that sound desperate.

  24. … not bad. but one question, why would the mother hide instead of meet her child on the stairs and get her the hell out of the house?

    1. In my opinion that adds a lot to the creepiness factor. Because you don’t really know which one is the fake one, or if it is the real mother, why she’s hiding.

      1. love this I will freak people out with it when I first saw it I didn’t know that so much scary could be put into 3 sentences i love it I’m favoriting it

  25. This is kinda creepy, but not greatly written. Maybe if you work on it for a little bit longer it’ll turn out great…but you’re on to something.

    1. The simplicity is what gives it such an appeal for me. To elaborate would be to ruin what is left up to the reader.

        1. No, it’s not a joke. It just leaves a lot of room for interpretation, that’s why the story doesn’t go into much detail. Questions go around, like “What was in the kitchen? What were its intentions? Was it a spirit? Was it even evil? Was the person under the stairs actually her mother, or does it just appear that way?” I told the story to my friends, and they came up with the theory that the mother had been killed by whatever was in the kitchen, and was a ghost trying to warn the girl.

      1. HEY HEY HEY IT'S SLENDY!

        I like the version that goes like this

        You wake up in your bedroom because you hear your mother call to you from the kitchen, so you run downstairs to meet her mother.

        As you’re running through the hallway, the door to your mother’s room opens a crack. Someone (presumably your mother)whispers, “Don’t go into the kitchen. I heard it too.” What would you do?

        1. That is practically the same story. What does your version add, besides a rhetorical question that eliminates any element of horror?

  26. i’ve heard this story a lot.. but this is the first time where the real mother actually shows her self.. in the other version, as she’s going down the stairs, she hears her mother call from upstairs saying “Don’t go into the kitchen. I heard it too.”

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