There's A Petition Going Around To Close A Haunted House In Tennessee That Is Allegedly Just A Straight Torture Chamber
WGN – It’s billed as an extreme haunted attraction and survival horror challenge and now there is a renewed effort to close it. More than 18,000 people have signed the petition on change.org in just a matter of days. Those that signed it say it’s a torture chamber under disguise. The manor is advertised as “an extreme haunted attraction,” but videos show it’s more than a haunt. “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,” the resident explained.
Russ Mckamey tells WKRN he is an entertainer who uses hypnosis.“People have to use common sense and it’s just really, to me, so simple. You got to put your common sense cap on and think gee whuz, if this was really happening the way I think it is how would I be allowed to do this operation. The ace up my sleeve is I use a lot of mind control techniques, I use hypnosis. 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,” McKamey explained.
He adds that there are more than 27,000 people on a waiting list to get inside the manor – and no one has ever completed it. McKamey screens each participant personally. If accepted, there is a long list of rules which include watching a 2-hour long video, signing a 40-page waiver and passing a physical.
What did these people think they were walking into after signing a 40 page waiver and viewing a 2 hour video entering? Some rinky-dink abandoned warehouse floor? These are the big leagues baby. Not only that, but they all made a day out of going to the doctor to get a physical for this. If that’s not a red flag then what is anymore. Anytime you have to be cleared by a doctor to go into a haunted house you’re probably not gonna be a walking out of it after giggling with the boys. I mean anyone who goes through all that training, lets themselves get HYPNOTIZED, then walks into a goddamn “survival horror challenge” is out of their minds and deserves the coinciding aftermath. If you can’t handle the heat stay out of the sun.
“There were multiple reports; one was a neighbor seeing a woman dragged behind a vehicle and then there was another report of screams and a person or neighbors saw a woman being put in a vehicle against her will,” District Attorney Brent Cooper told WKRN. “You have someone tied up and bound and gagged and they give the safe word.. if you don’t release them at that point then you are potentially looking at kidnapping for having them confined like that against their will,” said Cooper.
Yeah, no thanks all the way. Getting tied up with an apple in my mouth sounds like a decent time and all, but I’m gonna stick to my grade school church basements and not getting hypnotized by strangers beforehand.