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McKamey Manor haunted house offers $20,000 for anyone who completes the tour

Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:14 am
Posted by midnight1961
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1711 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:14 am
Would you do it ?

A haunted tour experience that spans two states and lasts up to 10 hours requires its participants to clear a background check, pass a doctor's physical and mental exams, and sign a 40-page waiver.

Enter if you dare.

The McKamey Manor experience, which stretches from Summertown, Tennessee, to Huntsville, Alabama, also requires "contestants," as the operators dub them, be at least 21 (or 18 with parental permission), insured and pass a drug test.

Owner Russ McKamey offers $20,000 to anyone who completes the tour, but says no one ever has. He records each physically demanding and psychologically disturbing tour on video – for his own protection he told WFLA-TV – and then posts them online, showing the participants quitting in humiliation.

"You get a lot of people who think it's going to be easy money," Kris Smith, a 37-year-old Michigan native who works as a volunteer remotely for McKamey's tours, told USA TODAY. Smith was first introduced to the operation years ago as a contestant. During his first go-around, he didn't make it past signing the waiver, which details all the physically painful, high-stakes and grotesque things that could happen along the way.

"I read it and I quit," Smith said. "I got to the last page and turned around and went home.... There's so much. You have to pull out your own teeth, there's a chance of getting a tattoo, a chance of your fingernails getting pulled out. It's really overwhelming. There's a chance of death. Accidents do happen."

Smith later returned and tried two more times before becoming an official member of McKamey's team. Once, tapped out after getting buried alive in a wooden coffin and then again during a round of hypnosis that gave him a "complete panic attack."

McKamey Manor

Definitely not me !
This post was edited on 10/25/19 at 10:22 am
Posted by Placebeaux
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Member since Jun 2008
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Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:15 am to
I want to do it
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:15 am to
I bet the fine print in that waiver is a mile long
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20635 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:16 am to
Link isn’t showing up on my phone.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92280 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:16 am to
would do it except it ends up taking me to alabama
Posted by OldmanBeasley
Charlotte
Member since Jun 2014
11173 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:16 am to
I’d just smoke a little extra PCP and have a great time
Posted by whatiknowsofar
hm?
Member since Nov 2010
27590 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:17 am to
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ends up taking me to alabama


Theres the real horror
Posted by TigahJay
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2015
11396 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:17 am to
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You have to pull out your own teeth, there's a chance of getting a tattoo, a chance of your fingernails getting pulled out


Yeah...I’m out
Posted by Freauxzen
Washington
Member since Feb 2006
38669 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:17 am to
It isn't a haunted house, it's effectively subjecting yourself to legal torture, that's all it is. I was fascinated, then did research. There's nothing "scary" about it in terms of haunts, it's pure torture. Kidnapping you and then just going to town - dunking your head in water, feeding you mud and foreign objects, pulling your nails, burying you under the ground in a coffin with spiders, etc.

Not as cool as it sounds.
This post was edited on 10/25/19 at 10:19 am
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
117492 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:18 am to
He tortures the shite out of people. I’m all for getting scared but frick actually being hurt
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
51716 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:18 am to
This guy used to have this place in San Diego and then moved it to TN/AL.

I wouldn’t go through it for any amount of money. It lasts 6-8 hours. 6-8 hours of psychological torture? No thanks.
Posted by whitetiger1234
They/Them
Member since Oct 2016
6582 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:19 am to
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a little extra PCP

This post was edited on 10/25/19 at 10:48 am
Posted by funnystuff
Member since Nov 2012
9144 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:19 am to
Sounds like less of a haunted house and more like an escalating series of torture scenarios
Posted by Raptordawg
Youngsville, La.
Member since Nov 2005
564 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:19 am to
You would have to pay me a helluva lot more than 20k to pull out my own teeth. Have y’all seen how much dentists cost these days?
This post was edited on 10/25/19 at 10:20 am
Posted by SSpaniel
Germantown
Member since Feb 2013
29658 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:19 am to
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You have to pull out your own teeth, there's a chance of getting a tattoo, a chance of your fingernails getting pulled out. It's really overwhelming. There's a chance of death. Accidents do happen.


That's not a haunted house. It's a torture tour. Basically... a legal Saw.

This post was edited on 10/25/19 at 10:24 am
Posted by hg
Member since Jun 2009
128295 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:19 am to
This is his way of torturing people and calling it a “haunted house”. Right
Posted by pwejr88
Red Stick
Member since Apr 2007
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Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:20 am to
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You have to pull out your own teeth, there's a chance of getting a tattoo, a chance of your fingernails getting pulled out.


He should be sued for False Advertisement. In no way is that a haunted house.
Posted by blzr
Saratoga
Member since Mar 2011
30744 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:20 am to
Who pays the 20k? Can’t be this loser
Posted by Evil Little Thing
Member since Jul 2013
11622 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:20 am to
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You have to pull out your own teeth


Posted by Who_Dat_Tiger
Member since Nov 2015
25604 posts
Posted on 10/25/19 at 10:20 am to
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He records each physically demanding and psychologically disturbing tour on video – for his own protection he told WFLA-TV – and then posts them online, showing the participants quitting in humiliation.


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