I felt it was great that it was the character Josh in the spirit realm(part 2) that was banging on the front door and setting off the house alarm in the first film. Little things liked that elevated this series for me. Like in most ghost stories and tales, ghosts tend to reenact moments from their past life, so in the spirit realm I guess time doesn't exist or have a meaning at least. So for me it kind of made sense Josh was able to jump around different points in time to the real world. It's still sketchy but it worked on some level for me.