McKamey Manor in Summertown, Tennessee may lay claim to being the world’s most frightening haunted house. It’s so terrifying that no one has ever completed it —so you have a chance. If you do it, making it to the end, then you’ll win $20,000.
All it costs to enter is a bag of dog food. Russ McKamey, the owner and mastermind behind the manor, has five dogs to feed.
The haunted house has many eye-popping preconditions. Contestants must get a letter from their doctor before they enter the house, asserting that they are physically and mentally fit, and there’s a drug test day-of. Signing the 40-page contract alone takes three to four hours. You have to have medical insurance because you’ll probably get hurt.
“I’m a very straight laced conservative guy, but here I run this crazy haunted house that people think is this torture factory, fetish factory,” McKamey said to local media. “All of these things that it’s not, but people believe that based upon the films that I have made.”
McKamey concocts each “show” for every individual contestant who visits, cooking up particular stunts and tasks suited to their particular fears.
McKamey is adamant that nothing strange goes on in the manor, despite a report that said visitors may be “bound, masked and held under water, slapped and stomped on, and compelled to eat your own vomit” during the eight-hour tour —if they last that long. McKamey insists it’s a more of a “mental game” between him and contestants, which he wins using hypnosis.
All contestant’s entire journey through the manor is filmed, which McKamey says is to protect himself against false accusations.
“When I use the hypnosis I can put you in a kitty pool with a couple inches of water and tell you there’s a great white shark in there, and you’re gonna think there’s a shark in there,” McKamey said.
There’s also a required two-hour video you must watch if you think other people are sissies and you’re made of stronger stuff. “And Then There Were None” is one hour and 48 minutes of people giving up the haunted house, telling the camera and future visitors “you really don’t want to do this.”
If you think you’ve got what it takes, you can contact McKamey online to set up your own scary tour.
