Inside McKamey Manor
By Always True Crime
In Nashville, Tennessee sits an unremarkable house, it’s red brick, set back from the road, with a green lawn. It looks…completely normal, but online it’s become infamous.
Over this eight part series, journalist and horror enthusiast Elizabeth McCafferty explores the world of McKamey Manor - labelled the most extreme haunt in the world. McKamey Manor is an American haunted house in which there are no limits, where thrill-seekers sign a waiver that allows the actors in the house to do anything, including real physical harm. There is allegedly an award for completing the haunt…but no one has ever succeeded. Now there’s a petition to close the manor, and some participants say it’s not a haunt at all, but a torture house, blurring the lines between fear and endurance - all run by one dangerous man - Russ McKamey.
Inside McKamey Manor explores what really happens behind the doors of one of the most controversial extreme attractions, finds out who Russ McKamey is and unpacks the industry of scaring. What’s the psychology that drives people to seek out fear and why are so many people willing to risk everything for the thrill of real fear?
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Latest episode
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Becoming A Hater
In the final episode of Inside McKamey Manor we explore what it’s like to try and leave the McKamey Manor community, why this content is allowed online, and the after effect of a traumatic experience. We try to find someone to defend the manor, an… -
Walking a Thin Line
McKamey Manor trades on its reputation, both good and bad. In this episode we unpack the legal difficulties Russ, and the manor has faced. A journey that takes us through financial woes, failed safety checks, and ends in 2024 with a charge of atte… -
Boys' Network
Scare acting is more than performance — it’s about understanding fear and bringing it to life. At McKamey Manor, where actors are volunteers who’ve endured the experience themselves, the line between entertainer and participant fades. We hear from… -
Smoke And Mirrors
How can we decipher between what’s real and what’s fake inside McKamey Manor? In episode 5 we explore Russ’s world of “smoke and mirrors” — is the torture that appears to happen on video fake? Or the only real thing about a manor tour? Eliza… -
Dark Copers?
What actually happens inside McKamey Manor is simultaneously the best and worst kept secret on the internet. Russ’s videos are shocking but heavily edited, and reports from participants of the manor vary wildly. In Episode 4; Dark Copers? we explo… -
You Really Don’t Want To Do This
Almost all conversations about McKamey Manor circles back to one thing… the waiver. An extensive document signed by participants of the extreme haunt, supposedly grants the actors permission to do just… anything: electric shocks, drownin… -
Backyard Bullshit
Who is the man behind McKamey Manor? Russ McKamey, a military veteran with a deep passion for all things horror, created a haunt some call the most extreme in the world…while others condemn it as nothing short of a torture house. In… -
This Happy Go Lucky Guy
McKamey Manor is often labelled the most extreme haunt in America; it's notorious on social media, has a fierce fanbase, but some of the participants say they were physically and psychologically traumatised by their time in the house. So what's th… -
Inside McKamey
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