Haunted houses. Which ones are your favorite?

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Haunted houses. Which ones are your favorite?

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Growing up, there was always a rumor of a haunted house that was so scary, if you made it all the way through, they paid you $100.

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McKamey Manor describes itself as "an extreme haunted experience" where guests are promised the most terrifying and mentally exhausting 10+ hours of their lives.

There have been petitions published calling it "a torture chamber under disguise." One petition published in 2019 received nearly 200,000 signatures.

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Russ McKamey owns and operates multiple locations of the extreme haunted house in Summertown, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama, where he requires visitors to fulfill a long list of requirements, including a 40-page waiver and the completion of a physical exam.

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"Previously no safe word was allowed, he changed that but there’s been reports that the torture continues even when people repeat their safe word for several minutes," the petition reads.

One man was allegedly "tortured" so badly, it wasn’t until the workers thought they had "killed" him that they finally decided to stop.

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One Reddit user wrote that the reason McKamey doesn’t accept any money is because "he only desires the footage of what he puts his ‘customers’ through. His payment is having footage of people crying, throwing up, having mental breakdowns and begging for him to let them go."

The user added that McKamey has admitted to exclusively employing people with "touchy pasts" including some with felonies for violent behavior, claiming that the employees gain some form of gratification out of harming people.

Another user leaked a portion of the alleged waiver that apparently says that visitors risk "death, stroke, traumatic brain injury," and dozens of other injuries on the tour.

So far, McKamey says no one has completed the tour, even though he promises to pay $20,000 to anyone who can sit through roughly 10 hours of this real-life nightmare.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that in 2017, Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies in Tennessee responded to a screaming woman being dragged by two men from a car into the newly established McKamey Manor.

The deputies quickly learned that the abduction was staged, but incidents like these have made the local community uncomfortable, and authorities have been working to shut down the operation ever since.

While the website for the tour claims that only people who pass an extensive medical background test are permitted, "10 minutes of getting duct tape wrapped around your head, forced to eat things, be waterboarded & forced underwater," is something writers of the petition allege cross a line.

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