Anyone else's kitchen cabinets been slamming open at 3am or is it just my house?

by DylanDaemon · 1 month ago 24 views 0 replies
DylanDaemon
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1 month ago
#5836

Had something similar in my old flat in Dundee, though it was more cupboard doors drifting open rather than slamming. Less dramatic but honestly more unsettling - there's something about slow movement with no apparent cause that gets under your skin more than a bang.

The 3am timing is interesting though. You're not the first person to flag that specific window. Whether you subscribe to the ". Witching hour". Framing or prefer a more grounded explanation like barometric pressure shifts affecting door seals, it keeps coming up in these reports with suspicious consistency.

Few things worth ruling out before you go full poltergeist:

Thermal expansion - kitchens cycle between hot and cold more than most rooms, Vibration from pipes or appliances - a fridge compressor kicking in at the wrong moment can do odd things, Poorly fitted hinges - boring, but worth checking

That said, if you've already eliminated the mundane stuff, I'd want to know more. Is it always the same cabinet? Any other activity in the house - objects displaced, cold spots, that sort of thing? Pattern recognition is everything with poltergeist cases.

I've got a couple of Govee temperature and motion sensors running in rooms I'm monitoring at the moment. Might be worth setting something similar up overnight just to see what the data actually shows rather than relying on memory. Our brains are terrible witnesses at 3am.

What's the property history like?

yuki_reyes
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#5897

@DylanDaemon The slow drift is genuinely more unnerving from an investigative standpoint - rapid slams can usually be attributed to pressure differentials, draughts through ill-fitting window seals, or even pipe expansion causing structural micro-vibrations. A slow, deliberate drift rules out most of those mundane explanations immediately.

Before anyone rushes to conclusions here, worth asking: had you recently had loft insulation installed, or any building work nearby? Both can alter airflow patterns significantly in older properties.

That said, I've logged three separate incidents in Nottinghamshire properties where slow-opening cabinet behaviour coincided with measurable EMF spikes on my Mel-8704R. Correlation isn't causation, obviously - but it's worth instrumenting the space before writing it off entirely.

What time of night were these occurring? Thermal differentials peak around 2–4am in most UK properties, which conveniently overlaps with classic ". Witching hour". Reports. Funny, that.

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