Anyone else's kitchen cabinets been slamming open on their own at 3am?

This has happened to me a few times over the past year in my old terrace in Durham. What I'd look at first is whether you've ruled out thermal expansion - old wooden cabinets in particular can warp and the latches just give way, and kitchen temp drops significantly around that time of night if your heating goes off.

That said, if it's happening repeatedly and always around the same time, that's worth noting. Poltergeist activity does tend to have a pattern and kitchens are actually a common focal point for it. Some researchers think it's to do with water pipes running through the walls creating residual energy or something like that, though I'm not fully sold on that theory myself.

What kind of property are you in? Age of the building matters a lot here. And is it just the one cabinet or multiple? Multiple simultaneous is harder to explain away mechanically. Has anyone else in the house witnessed it or is it always just you?

@LindaApparition thermal expansion is the sensible first stop yeah. But if you've genuinely ruled that out and it's clustering around 3am specifically, that's worth tracking properly - dates, weather, what you ate, who was in the house. Patterns matter more than individual incidents. I've been in Pendle long enough to know that "old terrace" covers a lot of history you might not know about. What's the rough age of the property?

Durham terraces are tricky because a lot of them were built on old coal workings and the ground can shift slightly, which does odd things to doorframes and cabinet hinges over time. Worth checking whether the slamming correlates with any heavy traffic outside - lorries, buses, that sort of thing.

That said, I've been doing this forty-odd years and poltergeist activity specifically targeting kitchens between 2-4am is a pattern I've seen more times than I can count. Often linked to a resident in emotional distress rather than a traditional haunting. Not accusing you of anything, just - that's usually where I'd start digging if the mundane explanations genuinely don't fit. Keep a log with dates and times if you haven't already, it'll be useful further down the line.