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“They know the truth that I have footage of everything,” McKamey said. “I tell people they’ll get cuts and bruises. It’s aggressive. But these people weren’t injured like they say they were.”

McKamey says his manor makes no money and raises funds for animal welfare. When he lost his job as a veteran’s advocate this year, he said, he attempted to move his financially strapped venture to a more affordable region. He ran into public opposition in Illinois.

As of July, McKamey was planning to move to McLeansboro, Ill., a town of about 3,000 people in the southeastern part of the state. McKamey said he arranged to rent space and dropped off about $35,000 worth of equipment, when problems started to arise.[/b]

Because McKamey Manor did not charge for admission and entertained only a small number of participants, the city didn’t automatically scrutinize it for conformity to codes and regulations as it would a business, McKamey said. He recently applied for a business license for the first time.

A review of city code enforcement and police records show there have been few complaints about McKamey’s home on Almazon Street in San Diego, where he takes his patrons.

City code enforcement went to McKamey’s house in December 2014 and found a violation related to room additions and structures. McKamey brought everything up to code by March, and a citation was never issued.

Police said they have records of three calls for service related to the address within the last two years, two of which were calls from McKamey and one of which was a report of a kidnapping that did not turn out to be a crime.

McKamey said the “kidnapping” was him bringing an electrician to his own home. He said he doesn’t like people to know where he lives, so he picked up the electrician from another location and hooded him for the ride. Suddenly, the police were on his doorstep.

"You have to spend three hours with me," he said, where the horror is "mainly psychological. This is where I'm going to really mess with your head. That's where it gets really tricky."
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Part of the thrill of his self-described hobby is making people "lose their minds." He says he uses hypnotism, and plays on people's fears and weaknesses.

"It's insane the amount of work we put into one person," he said. "Their phobias, their fears, all the dirt from their family and friends. It's a complete experience, physical and mental, like nothing else."

Furthermore, he claims he has a live feed in Vegas where people bet on the participants and give him and his "talent" ideas on what to do next.

In its prime, McKamey Manor boasted five different locations (including one across the border in Tijuana), was regularly included in roundups of the best haunts, and bookers in Las Vegas even reached out to stream active runs through the manor and place bets on the action. For all the popularly McKamey Manor garnered, none of it turned into profit–not even from Vegas.

ST So talking of your videos – they have a massive following on YouTube?

RM- The videos are just a taste of what we do and can’t prepare anyone for the full 7-8 hour experience they will actually have to endure. Talking of watching - I am present through all tours of the house – filming it for the guest to see afterwards but also for our live feed into Las Vegas. I’m not sure who these people are but they are watching the whole scenario from afar. Wouldn’t surprise me if they weren’t betting on how long a guest will survive!

Wombaticus Rex » Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:40 am wrote:The waiver aspect is really interesting, because those waivers don't protect him from liability at all, at all. His difficulty with zoning and insurance companies indicates he's probably got a personal hobby instead of an authorized op. What's interesting is that he seems to have found sponsors just the same.

I flatly disbelieve that this man is losing money or broke.

Between his two-acre lot in Summertown and a mysterious second location in Huntsville, Ala. — McKamey won’t say much about that one — McKamey says he owns all manner of courses and contraptions designed to push people to their breaking points.

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A full stay lasts about 10 excruciating hours, McKamey says, and no one has even made it to the supposed Huntsville portion of the show.

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