McKamey Manor in Summertown, Tennessee may lay claim to being the world's scariest haunted house. It's so scary that no one has ever completed it — but if you do, you'll win $20,000.
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The tour lasts from eight to ten hours, but no guest has made it all the way through. McKamey originally did not allow safewords for the tour but has since reportedly allowed them, with guests having the option to use a safeword that ends the tour immediately.
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.
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Keep an eye on the standby line wait times for The Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom, and The Tower of Terror at Hollywood Studios. If either attraction has a wait time of 13 minutes for the standby line, get in line! 13 minutes is a 'code' for no wait time at all.
So, what's the grand total? 186. That's a far cry from the 999 ghosts Disneyland claims reside in the mansion, which, according to the “Haunted Mansion” episode of “Behind the Attraction,” was first described as a retirement home for ghosts when it was under construction.
The experience is so rough, intense and truly frightening that visitors must sign a 40-page waiver, hand over a signed medical release and choose a safe word. And if they do make it out -- without tapping out -- they are awarded $20,000.
McKamey Manor in Summertown, Tennessee may lay claim to being the world's scariest haunted house. It's so scary that no one has ever completed it — but if you do, you'll win $20,000. All it costs to enter is a bag of dog food.
The Haunted Mansion is dark and contains some mildly frightening scenes, but there is no gore. The ghostly residents are friendly and the ride is slow-moving.