Second attempt
After walking deeper into the woods, James himself got lost a few times, he couldn’t exactly remember where the house was. After all, when he ran away from the place, he was in so much fear that he couldn’t easily retrace his steps. But finally, they found it, and it confused the police as well.
They couldn’t understand why there was a building here with no windows or doors. There was definitely something wrong going on here and they needed to get to the bottom of it. The cops used the tree, just like James did, to get inside and take a peek at what was going on inside.