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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4304686" data-attributes="member: 32740">They did keep it locked IIRC, and the building otherwise was just an old "storage" building of no significance.  I don't have a problem with accepting that kids would play around it and maybe even try to get in, but not question why it was locked when they couldn't.  It would only become questionable when someone noticed that it was the ONLY locked building (or was it?) and that noone ever did go in it, avoid mentioning it, and studiously not discussing what was stored there.Except for the founding adults everyone in the village were children who were too young to remember the outside world and had since been raised in a carefully controlled environment.  They had no reason NOT to believe what they were told.  They had no real reason to suspect that this otherwise ignored storage building held anything of interest.IIRC, this building was also at the edge of the woods and the children had been given reason to fear the woods.  It wasn't until the time period covered by the movie that "children", or more accurately the young adults, had become bold and brazen enough to test and challenge what they'd been told.</blockquote>