They were at the ugliest motel in some backwoods of some podunk state because Monty was drunk on summer vacation and cheap beers.
It had to be the skeeziest place they'd ever been including the fire concert that had no demons or even a hint of supernatural. Unless you counted the reruns on the tiny tv in the corner.
Jamie was at the jeep digging the EMF reader out of the toolkit, because it needed new batteries and he wasn't hustling Monty into the bathroom again. Once was enough and he was sure his sneakers would never recover.
The device made a pitiful sound as he rapped it gently. The batteries were old, but the screen lit up as expected and he was satisfied.
And then it did something unexpected.
The machine in his hand gave a high pitched alarm and Jamie shouted dropping the reader in suprise. It snapped open against the parking lot, batteries scattering everywhere. Behind him there was another sound, but it was no alarm.
Twisting about the young man put his back against the jeep and fumbled behind him for something, anything. The camera came to his hands and the flash come once, twice. There in the lot Jamie had no idea what he was staring at and whatever it was, it was coming closer