World’s ‘Scariest’ Haunted House Requires A Safe Word and A Waiver Before Entering!!

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Silke Jasso - Rare.us


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I love Halloween. More than Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July combined. I love it. Ever since I can remember, and it’s no secret I enjoy a good haunted house. To me, a haunted house needs to be…well..scary. To the point of me feeling like I am going to faint from fright, and not sleep for three days. It’s ridiculous, I know, but that’s why I love it, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who feels that way. Which is why McKamey Manor is my next target.

Described as the “haunted house of all haunted houses,” McKamey Manor is so extreme that participants are required to fill out a 40 (!) page waiver, and come up with a safe word before entering the house. According to the owner, no one has been able to finish the experience, but the number of people hoping to try it is long! Currently, there are 24,000 people on the waitlist.

(Warning: The video might be distrusting to some.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvCzXSjujkE

The house was featured on the Netflix documentary “Dark Tourist,” where New Zealand filmmaker and journalist David Farrier visits unusual, haunted, a horrific tourist location around the world…which only makes sense he would visit McKamey. In the last half of the ‘docu-series,’ Farrier visits the manor, which is described as the most extreme haunted house in the world. He eventually gives up halfway, terrified for his life.

Honestly, I have to admit that the whole experience looks like a mix of gore in-between “Saw” and “The Hills Have Eyes.” I genuinely got scared after watching the video, and I wasn’t even in the house! I was on my couch eating Flaming Hot Cheetos, anxiously waiting for someone to say “banana.” Yes, that’s the safe word I would use. Can you image crying your eyes out and then just yelling “BANANA” out of nowhere? It would lighten up the moon in seconds, for sure. Perfect safe word.

Anyway, the house which is located in Summertown, Tennessee, lets guest truly live out a real-life horror film for free, and those that complete the 4 to 7-hour journey can win prize money! States owner and creator Russ McKamey and girlfriend Carol Schultz reportedly spent more than $500,000 to make McKamey the scariest experience on earth, and for that kind of money, I sure hope so.

To protect themselves from any lawsuit, because of course, this is America and people love lawsuits, McKamey records the entire haunted experience on camera.

What other requirements does the house have?


21 and above, or 18-20 with parent approval.
Completed “sports physical” and doctor’s letter stating you are physically and mentally cleared.
Pass a background check.
Be screened via Facebook, facetime, or phone.
Proof of medical insurance.
Sign a detailed 40-page waiver.
Pass a portable drug test on the day of the show.

Off to MCKamey Manor (https://www.mckameymanor.com/), I go! BRB.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Angelica Stabile | FOXBusiness


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Halloween is creeping up quickly, and haunted houses nationwide are setting the bar high.

One Tennessee-based haunted house bets you won’t make it out without tapping out. Guests who escape the “extreme” haunted house will be awarded $20,000. Reportedly, no guest has done it yet.

So what makes it such an impossible feat?

McKamey Manor has been coined the “scariest” haunted house. Before entering, visitors must sign a 40-page waiver, hand over a signed medical release and declare a safe word.

The interactive experience is personalized to each visitor’s worst fears. It is a “rough, intense and truly frightening experience,” McKamey Manor warns on their website.


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The website provides a heavy disclaimer on the kinds of conditions guests should expect including low visibility, wet conditions, physically demanding environments and close contact with “very real and graphic scenes of horror.”

The tour can last up to eight hours, and you can't fight back and or run.

McKamey Manor is open year-round but performances only occur once a week. The two haunted houses are located in Nashville, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.

[fricnjay]

I read that it takes 10 hours to tour the whole thing and if you do there is a $20,000 prize. Apparently no one has ever collected.

[lost in melb.]

How do they make money if it's free to enter?

[DemonGeminiX]

Apparently the dude's rich.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I read that it takes 10 hours to tour the whole thing and if you do there is a $20,000 prize. Apparently no one has ever collected.

I read that too...in the article I posted above your comment :facepalm:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

From the waiver you have to sign:

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[Muddy]

It sounds like a waiver to torture you..?

[Godfather]

It sounds like a waiver to torture you..?

I'm no lawyer but no fucking way that waiver holds in court :lol: Depending on the province up here only about 50% of waivers hold up in the first place... and that's for shit like bouncy castles and zip lines :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Janine Puhak | Fox News


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McKamey Manor is not for the faint of heart.

The “extreme” haunted house, which operates locations in Summertown, Tenn., and Huntsville, Ala., touts itself as the nation’s "one and only 'extreme haunted attraction' and 'survival horror challenge.’” While the manor’s owner and operator claims there are tens of thousands of people on the waiting list to tour the home, a new petition to shut down the terrifying attraction had gathered over 63,000 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.

Days before Halloween, a Change.org appeal surfaced online, urging Tennessee's governor and the state Senate, as well as Alabama's state Senate, to shutter the spooky sites for good.

“[McKamey Manor is] advertised as “an extreme haunt” when in fact it is NOT a haunted house. It’s a torture chamber under disguise,” the petition, organized by Frankie Towery, begins.

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The appeal alleges that the owner, Russ McKamey, “uses loopholes” to avoid arrest for the extreme practices that reportedly take place in the haunted house, such as “getting duct tape wrapped around your head, [being] forced to eat things, be waterboarded and [being] forced underwater.”

The petition continued to slam the manor as “a shame to all haunted houses,” claiming that there have been “reports of sexual assault” there as well.

“It’s literally just a kidnapping and torture house. Some people have had to seek professional psychiatric help and medical care for extensive injuries,” Towery claimed, linking to a Reddit post for further discussion.

According to Fox 13, the manor’s rules for admission are clear in explaining that the site is no typical Halloween haunted house.

Participants do not pay an entry fee, and instead, bring a bag of dog food for a dog rescue group. For entry, adventurers must be over the age of 21 or have a parent’s permission if they are between the ages of 18 and 20. Guests are required to pass a physical exam, bring a doctor’s note detailing that they are physically and mentally cleared for the experience, pass a background check issued by McKamey Manor, have proof of medical insurance and be screened before visiting, according to their website.

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Participants must also read and sign a 40-page waiver, create a “safe” word and watch a two-hour warning video before beginning the tour, which is said to take about 10 hours to complete, according to Fox 13. Visitors have the option of weathering the experience alone, in an option known as “Desolation,” or partner with another for a two-person experience.

No one has yet successfully completed the entire tour, but if anyone ever does, the owner and operator has promised to award the feat with $20,000.

Despite the intense regulations, McKamey told Fox 59 that there are over 27,000 people on a waiting list to tour the haunted houses, describing himself as an entertainer skilled in hypnosis.

“People have to use common sense and it’s just really, to me, so simple… The ace up my sleeve is I use a lot of mind-control techniques, I use hypnosis,” he said. “So if I hypnotize someone I can make them believe whatever I want to and that’s the clever nature of the manor. There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors.”

An unnamed source who lives near one of the haunted houses, meanwhile, offered a different take on his claims.

“People come out screaming and hollering,” the neighbor told Fox 59. “It’s not a haunted house. A haunted house is about ghosts and goblins and stuff, it’s not about that right there. It’s just a torture thing.”

“Anybody that wants to hurt people and stuff like that is evil,” they added.

Lawrence County District Attorney Brent Cooper told the outlet that he has heard concerns regarding the Summertown McKamey Manor, as deputies have previously been called to the property.

“There were multiple reports; one was a neighbor seeing a woman dragged behind a vehicle and then there was another report of screams. A person ... saw a woman being put in a vehicle against her will,” Cooper said.

The district attorney continued to state that torture between two consenting adults is technically legal, but that McKamey and his team are toeing a fine line, as anyone can revoke consent at any point.

Though the petition to close the manor is gaining steam, Fox 59 reported on Tuesday that McKamey finds the appeal “humorous” and insists he is not doing anything illegal.

A spokesperson for McKamey Manor was not immediately available to offer further comment on news of the petition.

McKamey’s original haunted house was located in San Diego, Calif., but closed down, ultimately relocating and expanding with its current locations in Tennessee and Alabama, Fox 13 reported.

[lost in melb.]

Quite frankly if you are stupid enough to sign up to this, you deserve what you get

:rofl: