A petition on Change.org has collected over 80,000 signatures to shut down McKamey Manor, a haunted house experience that awards anyone who can beat it $20,000.
No one has collected the prize money in the haunted mansion’s 30-year history, according to the Washington Post.
The manor is “advertised as an ‘extreme haunt'” but operates as “a torture chamber under disguise,” according to the petition. Participants must sign a 40-page waiver and a medical release before entering, and the entire process can last up to 10 hours.
The attraction, which is free, is used by the house’s owner Russ McKamey to create “torture porn,” the petition says.
The waitlist to get into the manor has thousands of names, and McKamey puts on a show once a week throughout the year. Before being selected, potential participants take part in a screening process that identifies their worst fears so their experience in the manor can be made as terrifying as possible.
“If you’re good enough and you’re able to get inside somebody’s noggin like the way that I can … I can make folks believe whatever I want them to believe,” McKamey told the Washington Post.
McKamey’s act is mobile and he transports participants to various farms and abandoned buildings throughout Tennessee and, eventually, to Alabama, if the participant lasts that long. He sets the prize at $20,000 but takes away $500 each time the participant fails an activity or swears.
“I’m like the most strait-laced guy you could think of, but here I run this crazy haunted house,” McKamey said. “And people twist it around in their little minds.”
