We live in a split level house, where the driveway slopes down from the street, and the bedrooms are over the 2 car garage. It's an older house (70s) w/automatic garage doors, but they're old too. Craftsman as opposed to Genie or the newer brands.

Anyway, I'm sitting up here in one of the bedrooms browsing, my wife & son are both asleep in the other bedrooms, and all the sudden I hear a rumbling noise. At first I thought my wife had gotten up & turned the attic fan on for some reason, but it stopped, so I went to see what it was. I go down to the garage, and one of the doors is standing wide open. The opener for that door is in the console of my car which has a door on it, and the car is locked, but in the driveway.

My neighbor across the street has a carport, as do 4 of the 5 houses right around mine. One next door has auto openers, but it's opposite side of our driveway, and on the other side of the house instead of in front. (besides, they're older and probably sound asleep now, too) The inside button openers for our doors are on the header beam in the garage, and hard to get to.

I just found it creepy for that to happen for no apparent reason. I think this house is haunted. :ph43r:

PS - My dog went under the bed in this room as I went to investigate. Nice to know he's got my back. :rolleyes:

Kids have been to known to drive around with a remote clicking away at random just to see what opens. That sounds most likely.

Just f'in around, or looking to rob? Idiots either way... You'd think they'd be discouraged by a car being in the driveway.

They'd never know when a door was gonna open tho, so..

Easy enough solution...go down to Sears, buy one of those new garage door setups, with the signal that is constantly changing frequency and can only be opened by the specific door openers that are tuned into it's modulator...wait a sec...now I'm not so sure if those things exist, or if it was something I just saw in one of those hokey hollywood movies....disregard... 8DRTV75

Could be kids playing pranks or it could be serious business.

Either way, I would disable the automatic opener. Here's why.....

Almost no one locks the house doors from the garage into the home.

It been a few years back, (Mid 80's or so) but crooks learned they could gain easy access to a home via the garage with various programmable remotes or "frequency generators". (Commonly used in electronic repair shops) They would cruise neighborhoods randomly hitting houses and making note of which ones they could open and then return when no one was home.

Most people simply thought the door opener malfunctioned and wrote it off as such.

Even if the crooks couldn't access the house, most garages are full of valuables.

I'm not saying this is the case in your situation, but old tricks could be resurfacing.

You better call: