I’ve lived here in this house for 2-1/2 years. I have a bathroom here in my bedroom (over to my right by about 5 feet) with one of those wooden sliding pocket doors. About a month after I’d moved in, a loud bang woke me. The pocket door had slammed shut. It was near 3 a.m. I grabbed my gun, ran to get my son (who was sound asleep) and we gingerly went to open the door into the bathroom …..had someone broken in? Locked. Yep. The pocket door was locked. From the inside. This particular bathroom has a window so off we went outside to check if someone had broken in. Nope, screen on, window closed.

We got tools, saw there was a heavy screwhead on the outside of the inset door lock assembly; turned that with a screwdriver and the door unlocked. Opened it …nothing/no one inside. Window was still locked.

In examining the lock mechanism, I found that in the door section there were two heavy brass brackets that slid from either side and met in the middle in the closed position. When the door was closed and the knob was turned, these two brass plates moved inward and grasped onto an indented brass knob inset into the frame of the door.

There is no way that the door could have closed (slammed) by itself and then the knob somehow accidentally turned itself, causing the two brass plates to move inward from the left and the right to the middle and clasp onto the brass knob.

I don’t spook easy and I’m not going anywhere, so I went into the bathroom the next day and said aloud “Please go, I don’t want you here.”

It didn’t happen again. Until three nights ago. Except now, I don’t hear it. I wake up in the morning and the door (always left open at night) is closed and locked. For the last three mornings.

Nope, Haven’t seen a thing. Though I am expecting I might.