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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

86: McKamey Manor Arrest: Did Extreme Haunted House Owner Go Too Far?

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This past July, Russ McKamey (owner of the World's Most Intense Haunted Attraction, McKamey Manor) was arrested for attempted murder.

McKamey Manor is known for being an attraction where guests are physically and verbally abused. They can have teeth extracted without novocain, be buried alive, have their worst fears preyed upon amongst other things. Though guests are given a safe word to quit the experience, it is rarely respected.

Let's talk about what the charges were, why they were ultimately dropped, and look into the history of how McKamey Manor became the horror show it is.

TW: mention of domestic violence, descriptions of torture.

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0:00.0

On July 24th of this year, I saw an article that severely disturbed me. It did not surprise me, but it did disturb me nonetheless.

0:08.0

It was an article about how a man named Russ McKamey had been arrested for the attempted murder of his girlfriend

0:15.3

and was being held on a $100,000 bond. Apparently in the past week he had tried to kill the woman

0:21.5

who has remained unnamed twice.

0:24.4

Immediately the story started spreading around the internet like wildfire and it seemed like

0:29.1

everyone had the same reaction that I did. They were horrified. But anyone who knew who Russ was

0:35.2

always feared that he would one day try to kill someone. Some had even tried to

0:40.9

alert the authorities prior to this event.

0:44.0

See, Russ was known to be a dark guy.

0:48.0

For over a decade, he owned and operated an interactive haunted house called Macamey Manor. But calling it a

0:55.4

haunted house is actually the understatement of the century. Macamey Manor was known

1:00.9

to torture those who signed up for it. This was not your typical

1:05.0

haunted house attraction. People could have their teeth extracted without novacane

1:09.9

or be waterboarded. People would leave with broken bones and PTSD

1:15.0

as they tried to finish Russ's haunted experience in 10 hours.

1:19.6

And all of this was the dark creation of Russ, who would live stream the participants as they

1:26.1

suffered on Facebook.

1:28.6

People had been saying for ages that Russ did this because he enjoyed torturing people,

1:33.6

while others argued that the people who participated in this experience

1:37.9

were consenting adults, and Russ didn't do anything wrong.

1:41.2

And now, someone close to him is claiming he tried to kill them.

1:46.3

Maybe you're familiar with McKamey Manor. It's been talked about for a while now. There's even been

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