Objects moving in our Leeds house - now documented with timestamps

We've been experiencing poltergeist activity in our semi-detached in Headingley since early October. Started with small things - keys going missing, doors slamming - but last month escalated. We're talking about objects moving across rooms visibly. A kettle ended up on the dining table when it was definitely on the kitchen worktop. A book flew off a shelf (my partner saw it).

After dismissing it as stress-related nonsense, we've now got a proper log with dates and times:

3 Nov, 14:37 - Remote control moved from coffee table to behind sofa (both witnesses, clear memory)
8 Nov, 22:15 - Cutlery drawer opened and closed audibly while house empty (motion camera installed)
11 Nov, 03:42 - Knocking sounds on bedroom wall, woke both of us
15 Nov, 18:20 - Glass moved across kitchen island (no pets, no vibrations)

We're not hysterical people. We've had a surveyor check the house for subsidence, an electrician check for electrical faults causing RF interference. Nothing. Our youngest had a rough year (divorce, school issues) but he's not "throwing things" in the traditional sense. Is this escalating toward danger, and should we be contacting paranormal investigators or therapists?

The divorce factor is worth taking seriously - poltergeist activity often clusters around emotionally turbulent teenagers or young adults. Not saying it's definitely that, but teenage psychokinesis (whether real or psychological) is statistically the most common explanation. Has the activity intensified on particularly difficult days for your lad?

Honest question: are you certain no one's moving these things? I don't mean that as an insult, but one family member could be doing this subconsciously as a cry for help. The divorce + school issues creates a perfect storm. Consider getting someone external like a family therapist involved regardless of whether you believe it's paranormal.

Is this escalating toward danger, and should we be contacting paranormal investigators or therapists?

The motion camera footage is gold if you've got it. Can you describe what it shows with the cutlery drawer? That's the kind of evidence that helps rule out human movement. If the drawer opens on its own with no one near it, that's genuinely unusual and worth investigating properly.

Headingley's got quite a bit of history - the area was heavily industrialised in the Victorian era. Could be residual haunting activity triggered by the emotional stress in your home creating a kind of psychic amplifier. Either way, you need professional eyes on this. Get the footage reviewed.

One thing to rule out: could your house be near an underground stream or geological fault line? Natural electromagnetic fluctuations can cause psychological effects that make people perceive movement. Had a similar situation in Harrogate and turned out it was a chalk aquifer underneath causing weird EM spikes.

Really interesting case, @william_grimshaw. The escalation pattern you're describing - starting with small displacement events before moving to more dramatic activity - is actually consistent with a lot of documented poltergeist reports.

One angle nobody's mentioned yet: is there a teenager or young adult in the household? There's a long-standing theory that poltergeist phenomena sometimes centre around a specific person rather than a location. Worth noting whether the activity follows anyone outside the house too.

Also, @TheRetiredCivilServant's point about Victorian history is worth cross-referencing with old OS maps - the National Library of Scotland has brilliant overlays for Leeds.