This building has been quite until last night.
Just a reminder I am the only person who has any business in this building at night.
The pm guy handovers and leaves immediately and I do the usual environmental check 23:15. I find the Domestic storeroom unlocked, it's a big storeroom filled with junk and chairs nothing old or weird. I lock it. I check to see if anyone is in the room - it's empty. I check and lock every room in the building.
The Domestic storeroom door has a very solid lock. I pull it to me and as I've done a hundred times check that it is locked. It is really easy to lock and you just need to pull it to you. Remember no one is in this building or allowed to be in this building at night apart from me.
I go back to my work-station reply to a few email and decide I need a pee So I head back down to the staff toilet which is opposite the Domestic storeroom and notice the door is unlocked and open - the door is open. This is approx 00:15. I again check the room - it's empty.
I lock it again, a tad unnerved as I know I'd checked it and locked it before. I'm very anal about locking stuff.
I go out the building and start my rounds which takes me approx 2 hours as I get tied up dealing with a colleague's stupidity. I return late go in and because of the several cups of tea I had, I needed to go to the toilet again. I head down to the toilet opposite the Domestic storeroom door and find it unlocked and the door pushed wide open.
Not just unlocked but pushed opened. A heavy door with a solid lock which I'd locked myself.
For the first time I closed and locked the middle door between my office and the corridor to the Domestic storeroom. Even though I've found the small door of the side room next to my office open a few times before at my end of the building. It's never been as strange as this.
It is impossible that door was unlocked and opened twice.
Will keep you updated.
Back in my weird little building. On nightshift I have a tiny room, that we doze in, watch Netflix, etc. I'm mostly on call. It's the only room I actually feel comfortable in. My office is a couple of doors down from this room along a corridor.
So I come on for my nightshift. Do an environmental check which, as I've posted before, I do every time, making sure every room is locked up for the night.
I walk past the "snooze room" (we'll call it that), the door is closed. The door, if not closed properly, will always open as it's on an angle.
I walked past that room 3-4 times and the door is firmly closed.
I go out and about, do my rounds and come back two hours later walk down the corridor and the snooze room door is open. It's like someone has dumped ice water over me.
This is my safe room - or at least had been. As I've said before I'm the only person allowed in this building and I'm the senior guy working on nights and nobody is allowed in it. I never leave this door open myself as coming back into the building and seeing this room empty with the light on always gave me the chills. I always leave the door shut, locked and the light off until I return.
I've always liked this room as at night it's the least oppressive in the building.
I'm usually very fearless about Fortean stuff. I'm allowed to doze off, I'm in charge, I work long hours and I'm only a phone call away if the shit hits the fan. Cat-napping is a skill that I've picked up.
I'm pissed off the "door opener" has now picked my safe room. It only used to mess with the corner room and the domestics room.