How did the kitchen get messed up?
In The Sixth Sense there is a scene where Cole is in the kitchen and Lynn walks out of the room talking to him. She returns and finds all of the drawers and cupboards open. She screams in fright as there was no sound made and the amount of time she was gone was not enough for all of these to be opened.
However, even if the ghosts did it - how did they do it so fast without making any noise?
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Who's to say that it was just one ghost? Maybe there were many ghosts, i.e., one ghost per each drawer and cupboard. Or they're capable of doing more than we've seen them do.
I don't think that one can get more than a speculative answer on this. It was not explained in the movie, which is quite normal, since it's a typical suspense-raising scene, and explaining those beats their purpose. But I think that it was purposefully done that way, so that it is obvious that Cole couldn't have done it (alone).
As for your comment about ghosts "not shown to be using telekinesis or anything similar", they do move objects. Remember that first girl that Cole has helped? They were under her bed, and she pushed that box with the video tape to him, if I remember the movie correctly.
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In the suicide ghost's scene, all the cabinets are shown open. I assumed it was her and she frequents the house, likely because it's where she died. Doesn't explain how they were opened so fast - that's likely one of those unexplainable theatric things.
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