1 00:00:27,404 --> 00:00:29,155 So, very young... 2 00:00:32,616 --> 00:00:35,120 ...I got obsessed with horror. 3 00:00:39,082 --> 00:00:42,043 I just think it would be fun to survive a horror movie. 4 00:00:56,224 --> 00:00:58,768 But you make it to the end... 5 00:01:01,646 --> 00:01:03,940 ...and the credits roll, and everyone's fine. 6 00:01:05,525 --> 00:01:08,153 That's just always been, like, super appealing to me. 7 00:01:08,862 --> 00:01:12,449 I think I googled, "Survive your own scary movie," 8 00:01:13,241 --> 00:01:16,536 which is where the beginning of this started. 9 00:01:20,832 --> 00:01:23,793 But, every horror movie... 10 00:01:27,631 --> 00:01:30,050 - ...has a monster. 11 00:01:35,722 --> 00:01:37,682 Hey, everybody. It's Russ. 12 00:01:38,892 --> 00:01:41,102 This is Immersive Horror, 13 00:01:41,102 --> 00:01:44,105 where you become the star of the show. 14 00:01:44,105 --> 00:01:46,149 No! 15 00:01:46,149 --> 00:01:48,193 No, Russ. Please... 16 00:01:48,193 --> 00:01:50,946 Stay with me, honey. 17 00:01:50,946 --> 00:01:53,365 - Hold your breath. 18 00:01:53,365 --> 00:01:57,035 On the count of three, hold your breath. One. Two. 19 00:02:01,748 --> 00:02:04,376 - Please-- 20 00:02:04,376 --> 00:02:07,045 An immersive horror experience is... 21 00:02:08,630 --> 00:02:12,467 ...you are basically putting yourself inside of a horror movie. 22 00:02:14,094 --> 00:02:16,805 My legs hurt, and my arms hurt, a-and my hands are freezing. 23 00:02:16,805 --> 00:02:20,267 And I can't feel them 'cause there's still shocks running through my hands. 24 00:02:20,267 --> 00:02:21,810 You had a good time, though? 25 00:02:21,810 --> 00:02:22,978 Yes! I had a great time. 26 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,277 I don't know too many people outside of my small little group 27 00:02:30,277 --> 00:02:31,736 that know about this stuff. 28 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,866 It is relatively underground, 29 00:02:36,866 --> 00:02:39,327 and right now, we have the worst salesman for it 30 00:02:39,327 --> 00:02:41,997 in the history of bad salesmen. That's Russ McKamey. 31 00:02:43,873 --> 00:02:47,711 I am the owner and creator of McKamey Manor, 32 00:02:47,711 --> 00:02:51,965 the world's most extreme haunted house. 33 00:02:54,384 --> 00:02:57,554 Russ has positioned himself to be 34 00:02:57,554 --> 00:02:59,890 - the great danger. 35 00:02:59,890 --> 00:03:03,184 You're in boot camp, you are in North Korea, 36 00:03:03,184 --> 00:03:05,437 you are in Stalinist Russia, 37 00:03:05,437 --> 00:03:08,106 and you're gonna see if you can make it out or not. 38 00:03:08,106 --> 00:03:10,233 - We're showmen. 39 00:03:10,233 --> 00:03:14,195 I am the P.T. Barnum of the haunt world. 40 00:03:14,195 --> 00:03:15,822 Look at her. Look at her. 41 00:03:15,822 --> 00:03:19,492 I spent hours trying to convince her not to show up here. 42 00:03:19,492 --> 00:03:20,952 But she wouldn't listen to me. 43 00:03:20,952 --> 00:03:22,871 The show's never over with Russ. 44 00:03:24,331 --> 00:03:26,917 Please stop, Russ. Please, please. 45 00:03:28,043 --> 00:03:29,794 Russ has crossed the Rubicon. 46 00:03:29,794 --> 00:03:32,464 There's no goin' back. 47 00:03:32,464 --> 00:03:35,300 I'm leaving McKamey Manor, thank God. 48 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:37,260 Do. Not. Come. Here. 49 00:03:56,279 --> 00:03:59,282 McKamey Manor has a history of, um, cities and towns... 50 00:03:59,282 --> 00:04:02,160 - ...not wanting us in their location. 51 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,538 You know, we were kicked out of Illinois. We were gonna move out there. 52 00:04:05,538 --> 00:04:08,583 Um, the city saw the movies after we were there, 53 00:04:08,583 --> 00:04:10,627 basically, and freaked out. 54 00:04:10,627 --> 00:04:13,213 And they were, you know, they just went crazy, 55 00:04:13,213 --> 00:04:16,216 you know, praying in front of the building to keep us away, 56 00:04:16,216 --> 00:04:20,512 shooting out the windows, slashing tires. I mean, they really did not want us there. 57 00:04:38,029 --> 00:04:41,992 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Captain's pizza party! It's time to party! 58 00:04:41,992 --> 00:04:45,579 ♪ I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls ♪ 59 00:04:46,830 --> 00:04:50,792 ♪ Yeah, I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls ♪ 60 00:04:50,792 --> 00:04:53,962 You are from the military, you were in the Navy. 61 00:04:53,962 --> 00:04:57,632 Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I've-I was in the military for 23 years. 62 00:04:57,632 --> 00:05:01,177 Even on a ship, I had a haunt going on. 63 00:05:03,221 --> 00:05:05,849 Russ McKamey created a house of horror 64 00:05:05,849 --> 00:05:09,019 that would rival anything at a carnival or theme park. 65 00:05:09,019 --> 00:05:11,605 - Nine rooms, animated ghoulish figures, 66 00:05:11,605 --> 00:05:13,356 you wonder what he spent on it. 67 00:05:13,356 --> 00:05:15,317 This year, about $30,000. 68 00:05:17,277 --> 00:05:20,030 It took me six months to do what I did in there so far, 69 00:05:20,030 --> 00:05:21,489 so, and we just ran outta time. 70 00:05:21,489 --> 00:05:24,284 A Navy veteran who now works with the VFW, 71 00:05:24,284 --> 00:05:27,245 he's just always loved Halloween, he says. 72 00:05:29,331 --> 00:05:34,085 When we first met, I started doing video work for him. 73 00:05:35,003 --> 00:05:36,713 Russ was my friend. 74 00:05:36,713 --> 00:05:40,091 I thought that me and Russ were-were best friends. 75 00:05:42,385 --> 00:05:45,972 When the manor started originally, it was an awesome thing. 76 00:05:47,057 --> 00:05:51,478 It was kids working it, jumping out, scaring you. 77 00:05:51,478 --> 00:05:54,981 You know, there was a line to get in on Halloween. 78 00:05:54,981 --> 00:05:56,983 - It was a cool thing. 79 00:05:58,985 --> 00:06:02,989 That was when the news on what we were doing got big. 80 00:06:02,989 --> 00:06:06,743 This is considered the scariest haunted house in America. 81 00:06:06,743 --> 00:06:09,913 - We were on Good Morning America, 82 00:06:09,913 --> 00:06:13,083 every news station, everybody was doin' a story on us. 83 00:06:13,083 --> 00:06:15,961 McKamey Manor is completely interactive. 84 00:06:15,961 --> 00:06:19,005 - A two-hour visit to hell on Earth. 85 00:06:19,005 --> 00:06:21,967 And then every year, he had to one up it. 86 00:06:25,095 --> 00:06:28,598 Had to get a little more intense. A little more intense to the point, 87 00:06:28,598 --> 00:06:31,893 though, finally, they got rid of the kids. 88 00:06:31,893 --> 00:06:34,646 - Here they come! They're coming! 89 00:06:37,941 --> 00:06:40,777 McKamey Manor promises an extreme experience 90 00:06:40,777 --> 00:06:42,320 that can last up to 10 hours, 91 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,115 requires participants to be medically cleared by a doctor 92 00:06:45,115 --> 00:06:48,076 and sign a 40-page waiver. 93 00:06:48,076 --> 00:06:50,579 This place has been known to break the minds... 94 00:06:50,579 --> 00:06:52,998 It was invented by this crazy gentleman... 95 00:06:52,998 --> 00:06:56,793 Russ McKamey videotapes every single second... 96 00:06:56,793 --> 00:07:01,298 ...inducing is a form of psychological torture, but for fun. 97 00:07:05,010 --> 00:07:08,805 They say it amounts to a torture chamber. Yikes. 98 00:07:09,848 --> 00:07:12,350 - The phones would not stop. 99 00:07:15,812 --> 00:07:17,439 His phone would constantly ring, 100 00:07:17,439 --> 00:07:21,151 my phone would constantly ring, with people trying to get in. 101 00:07:21,151 --> 00:07:23,570 It was insane 102 00:07:23,570 --> 00:07:26,907 how quickly and how big it got. 103 00:07:31,369 --> 00:07:32,996 And that's when it got violent. 104 00:07:32,996 --> 00:07:35,332 - Don't fuckin' move. 105 00:07:38,585 --> 00:07:40,837 - Stop resisting! 106 00:07:41,296 --> 00:07:43,298 I probably wouldn't do the haunt 107 00:07:44,257 --> 00:07:46,927 - if I wasn't able to film it. 108 00:07:47,552 --> 00:07:50,055 - That's nice. 109 00:07:51,348 --> 00:07:54,434 Because I want the world to see what I'm doing. 110 00:08:19,334 --> 00:08:21,503 I am here because I want everyone 111 00:08:21,503 --> 00:08:23,547 to know the truth on Russ. 112 00:08:29,302 --> 00:08:33,014 I don't feel like I'm, like, mentally weak, 113 00:08:33,014 --> 00:08:36,142 but it messed me up. 114 00:08:36,685 --> 00:08:39,646 I'm over five years past it... 115 00:08:41,189 --> 00:08:43,149 ...and I'm just now coming to terms 116 00:08:43,149 --> 00:08:45,193 with how fucked up it was. 117 00:08:47,028 --> 00:08:50,740 The dude lives in the dark. The world needs to see 118 00:08:50,740 --> 00:08:53,743 what this man has done to people. 119 00:08:56,496 --> 00:08:59,541 If someone asked me my story, I would tell it to 'em. 120 00:08:59,541 --> 00:09:02,460 There's actually a lesson to be learned from Russ. 121 00:09:30,238 --> 00:09:34,284 I am a producer and creator of immersive horror. 122 00:09:37,370 --> 00:09:40,373 I'm putting them through what I would perceive as horrific. 123 00:09:42,375 --> 00:09:46,338 I'm putting them through a scenario that I'm terrified of. 124 00:09:47,297 --> 00:09:51,259 I love traditional Halloween. Like, I love old school haunted houses. 125 00:09:52,177 --> 00:09:53,887 An immersive horror experience 126 00:09:53,887 --> 00:09:57,599 is definitely evolved out of a haunted house, 127 00:09:58,808 --> 00:10:00,894 - but... 128 00:10:00,894 --> 00:10:03,563 ...you can't compare these things together. 129 00:10:03,563 --> 00:10:06,858 If you wanna put 'em in a hierarchy, you know, you have boo haunts up here. 130 00:10:11,988 --> 00:10:15,825 The normal boo haunted house, they pop out of a hole in the window, 131 00:10:15,825 --> 00:10:18,787 - they scare you around a corner. 132 00:10:18,787 --> 00:10:21,331 Those are just walkabout haunted houses 133 00:10:21,331 --> 00:10:22,666 that everybody can go to. 134 00:10:32,842 --> 00:10:35,220 Followed by more extreme haunts... 135 00:10:37,389 --> 00:10:40,433 ...but without necessarily actors touching you. 136 00:10:45,605 --> 00:10:47,857 As you kind of get into the more immersive experience, 137 00:10:47,857 --> 00:10:50,860 - they can separate you from your friends. 138 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:53,947 They can tie you up, but it's nothing super extreme. 139 00:10:55,657 --> 00:10:58,076 At the very bottom is... 140 00:10:58,076 --> 00:11:01,705 - ...immersive, extreme type experiences, 141 00:11:01,705 --> 00:11:04,457 where it is full contact. 142 00:11:04,457 --> 00:11:06,751 There's no topic that's off the table. 143 00:11:09,462 --> 00:11:12,090 They're longer, they're more intense, 144 00:11:12,090 --> 00:11:14,342 they're more narrative-driven, 145 00:11:14,342 --> 00:11:17,220 more task-driven, and personal. 146 00:11:24,769 --> 00:11:27,814 Some of these ultra personal experiences 147 00:11:27,814 --> 00:11:31,568 are made to make you face 148 00:11:31,568 --> 00:11:33,778 all the things that you don't wanna face. 149 00:11:35,780 --> 00:11:37,991 Hands and knees, Hands and knees! 150 00:11:40,994 --> 00:11:44,623 And they go about it in extremely creative ways. 151 00:11:45,415 --> 00:11:46,833 Fuck! 152 00:11:52,172 --> 00:11:55,342 They put you in situations that you didn't realize you were even scared of. 153 00:12:05,977 --> 00:12:09,147 People just enjoy the rush of it 'cause it is a thrill. 154 00:12:10,941 --> 00:12:13,860 The point is how much can you take, right? 155 00:12:13,860 --> 00:12:17,197 How much physical and mental abuse 156 00:12:17,197 --> 00:12:19,866 can you put up with before you just cut out? 157 00:12:21,451 --> 00:12:24,204 But, you can take away consent at any time, 158 00:12:24,204 --> 00:12:26,915 and a good extreme haunt owner knows that. 159 00:12:34,631 --> 00:12:36,716 You constantly have to ask the participant, 160 00:12:36,716 --> 00:12:38,468 "Do you still consent? Do you still consent?" 161 00:12:38,468 --> 00:12:41,972 Even if it's seven hours, they're going to make sure that I'm safe. 162 00:12:41,972 --> 00:12:44,391 But it isn't just the torturing people. 163 00:12:44,391 --> 00:12:46,560 There is subtext to the show. 164 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:49,229 There's subtext to the things that I'm talking about. 165 00:12:54,276 --> 00:12:56,778 But, that isn't always the case. 166 00:12:58,196 --> 00:13:00,699 There's one person 167 00:13:00,699 --> 00:13:03,535 basically running a torture chamber. 168 00:13:06,580 --> 00:13:09,291 [echoing] You made a big mistake. Come on. 169 00:13:09,291 --> 00:13:12,919 Russ was, like, a celebrity. You know, 170 00:13:12,919 --> 00:13:16,423 every YouTube video at the time, every Facebook link 171 00:13:16,423 --> 00:13:19,467 was Russ' face, mentioning this haunt. 172 00:13:19,467 --> 00:13:22,137 We're here waiting for you. 173 00:13:22,137 --> 00:13:24,431 Russ McKamey's a divisive figure. 174 00:13:24,431 --> 00:13:26,725 Just get him in here! Get him in here! 175 00:13:26,725 --> 00:13:28,184 He uses his divisiveness 176 00:13:28,184 --> 00:13:31,730 to get your attention, to grow in attention. 177 00:13:31,730 --> 00:13:33,023 You understand what I'm telling you? 178 00:13:34,107 --> 00:13:36,568 Yes what? Tell me what I just told you, Christina. 179 00:13:36,568 --> 00:13:39,070 He started to put little bits of information out there 180 00:13:39,070 --> 00:13:41,781 to make himself more infamous, I guess. 181 00:13:41,781 --> 00:13:44,117 You look scared Steve. 182 00:13:44,117 --> 00:13:46,369 - I'm terrified, sir. - Yeah, you need to be. 183 00:13:46,369 --> 00:13:50,206 It billed itself as the most extreme haunted house in the world. 184 00:13:50,206 --> 00:13:51,958 They do all kinds of crazy stuff to you. 185 00:13:51,958 --> 00:13:53,418 I don't like you here. 186 00:13:53,418 --> 00:13:56,838 I am gonna make sure you have the worst day of your entire life. 187 00:13:56,838 --> 00:14:00,300 They drugged you, that they pulled your teeth, 188 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,261 that if you threw up, they make you eat your throw-up. 189 00:14:03,261 --> 00:14:05,347 And I was like, "How is this possible? 190 00:14:05,347 --> 00:14:07,182 But, man, this is fascinating." 191 00:14:07,182 --> 00:14:10,268 Let me out! 192 00:14:10,268 --> 00:14:13,521 Let me out! Let me out! 193 00:14:15,273 --> 00:14:19,027 We only do one or two shows a week. 194 00:14:19,027 --> 00:14:21,363 - The list is long. 195 00:14:21,363 --> 00:14:25,200 One of those things that Russ liked to say was 196 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,787 he had this 27,000 person waitlist. 197 00:14:28,787 --> 00:14:31,122 - You won the lottery. - Out of 20,000. 198 00:14:31,122 --> 00:14:33,583 - 27,000. - 27,000! 199 00:14:33,583 --> 00:14:36,127 He's so big with this huge waitlist. 200 00:14:36,127 --> 00:14:39,130 I'm offering you 20 grand, 201 00:14:39,130 --> 00:14:43,134 and you know we're probably not gonna kill ya, so... 202 00:14:43,134 --> 00:14:44,761 There was a $20,000 money prize. 203 00:14:44,761 --> 00:14:48,014 Oh yeah, well, the 20 grand, that's a big part of it. 204 00:14:48,014 --> 00:14:51,851 Well, here I am. Today's the day for my McKamey Manor tour. 205 00:14:51,851 --> 00:14:55,814 Some people see that 20 grand, and they're enticed by that money. 206 00:14:57,399 --> 00:15:00,902 Everyone on the internet told me I could do it, 207 00:15:00,902 --> 00:15:04,364 they wanted me to, and I didn't listen. 208 00:15:04,364 --> 00:15:06,700 Do not come here. 209 00:15:11,288 --> 00:15:15,917 Price of admission for this eight-hour-plus adventure? 210 00:15:15,917 --> 00:15:19,963 Four cans of dog food or a bag of dog food. 211 00:15:19,963 --> 00:15:22,549 He's not making money. 212 00:15:22,549 --> 00:15:26,553 I think most of the money that went into the haunt was from his previous wife. 213 00:15:27,804 --> 00:15:30,682 But I think it is just to keep himself, keep himself clean. 214 00:15:32,017 --> 00:15:34,477 Haunted houses, like, this is not a money thing. 215 00:15:34,477 --> 00:15:36,187 You gotta do this for the art, 216 00:15:36,187 --> 00:15:39,733 - or 'cause you're a sociopath. 217 00:15:39,733 --> 00:15:41,818 You wanna run a torture chamber. 218 00:15:44,195 --> 00:15:48,283 We're known for no quitting and no safe-wording. 219 00:15:49,409 --> 00:15:53,163 I make it simple 'cause I'm a simple guy, and I can't have too many rules, 220 00:15:53,163 --> 00:15:56,583 otherwise I'll get confused. So, either you actually complete the tour, 221 00:15:56,583 --> 00:15:58,919 - which is not going to happen... 222 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:03,298 ...or you mentally or physically are at such a breaking point 223 00:16:03,298 --> 00:16:06,092 that it's now not safe for you to continue, 224 00:16:06,092 --> 00:16:07,886 and I need to take you out. 225 00:16:12,766 --> 00:16:18,063 Russ doesn't want you to quit until you are a pile of bones and flesh. 226 00:16:18,063 --> 00:16:20,398 And then, you're not probably done either. 227 00:16:33,662 --> 00:16:36,081 All that bad stuff, it's selling point. 228 00:16:36,873 --> 00:16:39,584 It's not a reason not to go. It's a reason to go. 229 00:16:39,584 --> 00:16:40,919 How bad can it be? 230 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,928 That's my number one rule before I go to any extreme haunt. 231 00:16:51,888 --> 00:16:54,891 If a felony's not gonna be taking place, I don't wanna go. 232 00:16:57,936 --> 00:16:59,563 I love the adrenaline. 233 00:17:02,691 --> 00:17:05,527 There was no second thought, there was no nothing. I had to do it. 234 00:17:08,488 --> 00:17:12,659 I had just moved to Los Angeles. I was, like, trying to be an actress. 235 00:17:12,659 --> 00:17:14,911 I had a group of friends that were creative, 236 00:17:14,911 --> 00:17:18,748 so we would just do fun little short films that were scary. 237 00:17:20,625 --> 00:17:22,586 And I wanted something more extreme. 238 00:17:22,586 --> 00:17:25,589 And it was like a full send point in my life, 239 00:17:25,589 --> 00:17:27,674 where I just didn't think about anything. 240 00:17:27,674 --> 00:17:29,801 I was like, "Okay, like, you only live once. 241 00:17:29,801 --> 00:17:32,429 Like, why not just try to, like, get into this haunted house?" 242 00:17:34,639 --> 00:17:36,933 My day-to-day activities, 243 00:17:36,933 --> 00:17:40,145 my normal routine gets dull, 244 00:17:40,145 --> 00:17:42,230 and I wanted to branch out. 245 00:17:43,064 --> 00:17:44,357 And I'm not gonna lie. 246 00:17:44,357 --> 00:17:48,153 I honestly thought that this was gonna help 247 00:17:48,153 --> 00:17:51,781 get me a little bit of fame. And I wanted a video of me up on YouTube. 248 00:17:57,162 --> 00:18:00,707 And the more people that I talked to about this that said, 249 00:18:00,707 --> 00:18:03,043 "No, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it," 250 00:18:04,628 --> 00:18:06,504 the more it motivated me. 251 00:18:08,798 --> 00:18:12,052 My first conversations with Russ involved going to his website, 252 00:18:12,052 --> 00:18:15,096 finding out what his email address was, and I just sent him an email. 253 00:18:15,096 --> 00:18:18,642 And I contacted the admins about doing a tour. 254 00:18:18,642 --> 00:18:22,562 "I wanna be an actress. I love horror. Um, I'm trying to start a YouTube channel. 255 00:18:22,562 --> 00:18:24,439 Like, I would love to do this haunt." 256 00:18:24,439 --> 00:18:28,026 Not even two days later, I actually got the email back from him. 257 00:18:30,153 --> 00:18:33,198 "Hey, Gabi, are you available tomorrow? 258 00:18:33,198 --> 00:18:35,909 I have, like, a spot opening up. Someone bailed." 259 00:18:35,909 --> 00:18:39,371 We kind of bonded because we were both in the service. 260 00:18:39,371 --> 00:18:43,375 He says, "This is your only opportunity to get in. I got 20,000 people waiting, 261 00:18:43,375 --> 00:18:45,585 I'm bumping you to the front of the line." 262 00:18:45,585 --> 00:18:48,129 People get so obsessed, and Russ is feeding their ears, 263 00:18:48,129 --> 00:18:51,091 and they're like, "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, 264 00:18:51,091 --> 00:18:53,218 because I'll never get this chance again." 265 00:18:53,218 --> 00:18:56,805 Then, I had to do this little video that Russ asked me to do, 266 00:18:56,805 --> 00:19:00,767 live on this private Facebook group. 267 00:19:00,767 --> 00:19:04,604 I had a friend hanging me by my ankles upside down, 268 00:19:04,604 --> 00:19:07,941 and I actually ate night crawlers 269 00:19:07,941 --> 00:19:10,318 mixed with toothpaste and mustard. 270 00:19:10,318 --> 00:19:12,904 [on video] She's done. She's ate all the worms. 271 00:19:15,740 --> 00:19:18,910 And it was horrible. Absolutely horrible. 272 00:19:18,910 --> 00:19:20,870 But I felt like I needed to be 273 00:19:20,870 --> 00:19:23,748 over the top in my creativity, 274 00:19:23,748 --> 00:19:26,376 because he was a big deal, 275 00:19:26,376 --> 00:19:28,962 and I wanted to stand out from the rest. 276 00:19:30,380 --> 00:19:33,049 He announces, you know, I can do a tour. 277 00:19:33,049 --> 00:19:34,426 I said yes. 278 00:19:34,426 --> 00:19:36,136 And I was over the moon excited. 279 00:19:36,136 --> 00:19:40,056 I was like, I guess, for some reason, he liked my email. 280 00:19:40,056 --> 00:19:42,267 And he was very kind at that time. 281 00:19:42,267 --> 00:19:44,769 He made me feel like I was important 282 00:19:44,769 --> 00:19:46,980 and that I was already this huge celebrity 283 00:19:46,980 --> 00:19:48,565 and I had a fan base. 284 00:19:50,317 --> 00:19:51,902 You know, I'm gonna rock this. 285 00:20:11,922 --> 00:20:14,758 I'm super scared. I don't know who my partner is. 286 00:20:14,758 --> 00:20:17,636 Um, I'm waiting until it gets a little closer to the time, 287 00:20:17,636 --> 00:20:19,888 then I'm gonna go sit in the spot and wait. 288 00:20:19,888 --> 00:20:23,934 He said, "Find parking near the park. There are bleachers. Sit at the bleachers, 289 00:20:23,934 --> 00:20:26,895 face forward. Don't turn around or anything." 290 00:20:26,895 --> 00:20:30,732 And then, I went and met Russ at the park 291 00:20:30,732 --> 00:20:32,359 for my waiver signing. 292 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,362 I was nervous. I was shaking. My hands were trembling, 293 00:20:35,362 --> 00:20:38,323 and I was trying to fake that I was fine. 294 00:20:44,079 --> 00:20:45,080 Sure. 295 00:20:45,956 --> 00:20:47,582 That was the infamous waiver. 296 00:20:47,582 --> 00:20:51,461 That was the waiver that you're basically signing your life away. 297 00:20:51,461 --> 00:20:55,423 We're not responsible if you die. Like, you're agreeing to sign up for this. 298 00:20:57,634 --> 00:20:58,635 No. 299 00:21:00,345 --> 00:21:02,806 - Yes, yes. - Take this. Don't get it wet. 300 00:21:02,806 --> 00:21:05,475 Why are you doing this? That's my question. Why would you do this 301 00:21:05,475 --> 00:21:08,353 after everything that's happening, why would you sign this waiver? 302 00:21:11,565 --> 00:21:16,486 "Participant fully understands and agrees that once participant enters MM, 303 00:21:16,486 --> 00:21:20,615 there is no quitting unless serious psychological injury is present." 304 00:21:20,615 --> 00:21:23,285 Your hair may be chopped off. Dentistry may be done. 305 00:21:23,285 --> 00:21:24,869 You may have a tooth extracted. 306 00:21:24,869 --> 00:21:28,039 "Head, neck, back injuries, death, stroke, 307 00:21:28,039 --> 00:21:30,333 traumatic brain injury, brain aneurysm." 308 00:21:30,333 --> 00:21:32,669 I wasn't allowed to, like, look at the person 309 00:21:32,669 --> 00:21:33,795 who gave us the waiver. 310 00:21:33,795 --> 00:21:35,463 We had very weird instructions. 311 00:21:35,463 --> 00:21:39,968 "Retinal hemorrhage, subdural hematoma, loss of consciousness, whiplash, 312 00:21:39,968 --> 00:21:42,053 "harmful heart reactions, 313 00:21:42,053 --> 00:21:45,265 "nausea, headache, dizziness, lacerations, 314 00:21:45,265 --> 00:21:47,058 broken or sprained bones." 315 00:21:48,226 --> 00:21:50,186 None of this had gotten to me. 316 00:21:51,521 --> 00:21:55,400 I had too much excitement going through my veins at the time. 317 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,445 If it would've said a man's gonna come out of the woods 318 00:21:58,445 --> 00:22:01,531 and murder you during this event, I-I would've signed it. 319 00:22:16,796 --> 00:22:19,966 I get that feeling, that adrenaline is just building, 320 00:22:19,966 --> 00:22:23,470 which is reminiscent right before I left the wire when I was in Iraq. 321 00:22:23,470 --> 00:22:26,806 This was going outside of the safety of your FOB. 322 00:22:28,016 --> 00:22:29,935 The FOB, it's a forward operation base. 323 00:22:30,644 --> 00:22:32,437 That's where we lived. 324 00:22:32,437 --> 00:22:35,899 There's a clear delineation of safety there. You know, safe, 325 00:22:37,317 --> 00:22:38,318 not safe. 326 00:22:39,653 --> 00:22:41,529 As soon as you go outside the gate... 327 00:22:43,657 --> 00:22:46,076 - ...adrenaline's as high as you can go. 328 00:22:46,076 --> 00:22:49,329 - Yeah! Woo! 329 00:22:49,329 --> 00:22:51,665 - Yeah! 330 00:22:56,461 --> 00:22:58,755 We lost a lot of people over there. 331 00:22:58,755 --> 00:23:00,882 People were dying every single day. 332 00:23:02,676 --> 00:23:06,179 I did 21 years. I did three combat tours in Iraq, 333 00:23:06,179 --> 00:23:08,682 which spanned over 40 months. 334 00:23:09,891 --> 00:23:12,686 At the start of the deployment, I had hope. 335 00:23:14,271 --> 00:23:18,066 Very shortly, I realized you abandon your hope. 336 00:23:18,984 --> 00:23:22,362 You realize that death can come at any moment. 337 00:23:24,823 --> 00:23:27,492 Military experience is extreme. 338 00:23:27,492 --> 00:23:32,038 Terror haunt experience is extreme. Anything that we do that is extreme, 339 00:23:32,038 --> 00:23:35,542 adrenaline, when it's coursing through us, I mean, it makes us feel powerful. 340 00:23:35,542 --> 00:23:38,336 A lot of times when people have had combat experiences, 341 00:23:38,336 --> 00:23:41,464 you cannot get that feeling anywhere else. 342 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,217 - So, it almost gets kind of locked in. - Mm. 343 00:23:44,217 --> 00:23:47,053 I'm Dr. Lindsay Bira, clinical health psychologist 344 00:23:47,053 --> 00:23:49,806 and PTSD and trauma specialist. 345 00:23:49,806 --> 00:23:51,892 When somebody has had a trauma 346 00:23:51,892 --> 00:23:54,436 and their nervous system is a little bit hijacked, 347 00:23:54,436 --> 00:23:56,146 like we see in PTSD, 348 00:23:56,146 --> 00:24:00,442 then it drives them to seek external sensation to try to regulate. 349 00:24:02,444 --> 00:24:06,531 And for anybody with anxiety, depression, PTSD, 350 00:24:06,531 --> 00:24:09,367 somebody experiencing emotional abnormalities, 351 00:24:09,367 --> 00:24:13,163 they are more likely to seek external stimulation. 352 00:24:15,832 --> 00:24:18,585 I'm worried about these types of experiences 353 00:24:18,585 --> 00:24:20,754 because there's no real structure. 354 00:24:20,754 --> 00:24:23,298 There's no limits. The limits keep getting pushed. 355 00:24:24,966 --> 00:24:28,386 But, the most important thing is to be very careful 356 00:24:28,386 --> 00:24:32,349 who is leading an extreme experience. 357 00:24:33,183 --> 00:24:36,645 There can easily be abuse of power, 358 00:24:36,645 --> 00:24:39,856 and we don't know how far to trust somebody. 359 00:24:45,820 --> 00:24:47,530 He stuck me in his truck. 360 00:24:47,530 --> 00:24:50,492 Hey, everybody. Come on in. 361 00:24:50,492 --> 00:24:53,745 I was blindfolded, I couldn't see anything, 362 00:24:53,745 --> 00:24:57,791 and off we went to the manor to begin the tour. 363 00:25:02,337 --> 00:25:05,215 - He puts me into his truck. 364 00:25:05,215 --> 00:25:07,717 He puts earphones on me, 365 00:25:07,717 --> 00:25:11,638 and then I remember the sounds of babies crying, 366 00:25:11,638 --> 00:25:14,099 - and it's very, very loud. 367 00:25:15,350 --> 00:25:18,770 I'm like, "Okay, I've just lost my sense of hearing." 368 00:25:18,770 --> 00:25:22,232 - And then, he starts duct taping my head. 369 00:25:22,232 --> 00:25:25,151 He covers my entire head with duct tape, 370 00:25:25,151 --> 00:25:26,486 that I bought, mind you. 371 00:25:26,486 --> 00:25:29,990 Once they kidnapped us and put us in the van, that's when I, like, 372 00:25:29,990 --> 00:25:31,658 I don't even think I felt anxious. 373 00:25:31,658 --> 00:25:33,994 I think I was in, like, fight or flight mode, 374 00:25:33,994 --> 00:25:36,538 and I had to fight 'cause there was nowhere that I could go. 375 00:25:36,538 --> 00:25:38,498 So I was just very focused. 376 00:25:40,083 --> 00:25:42,043 I don't know what to expect. 377 00:25:42,043 --> 00:25:45,213 I knew this was go time, right? 378 00:25:45,213 --> 00:25:48,800 I'm getting what I've been wanting to do for years. 379 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,927 It's time! Then, the door swings open. 380 00:25:50,927 --> 00:25:52,429 Come over here. 381 00:25:52,429 --> 00:25:54,681 I was so focused because he was filming me. 382 00:25:54,681 --> 00:25:57,434 I had camera fright. 383 00:25:57,434 --> 00:26:00,604 This video's live, and so it was very, very scary. 384 00:26:00,604 --> 00:26:03,356 Fans, what color would you like her base to be? 385 00:26:03,356 --> 00:26:05,817 You got purple, red, pink, yellow. 386 00:26:05,817 --> 00:26:07,819 He hyped me up, did lives, 387 00:26:07,819 --> 00:26:09,738 and he's reading off the comments. 388 00:26:09,738 --> 00:26:12,407 She's a sport. Guys, she's a sport. 389 00:26:12,407 --> 00:26:16,286 You're gonna be the best one, you're gonna put on the best show ever. 390 00:26:16,286 --> 00:26:20,165 Hypes it up all the time. Really gets you going, gets the fans going. 391 00:26:20,165 --> 00:26:24,085 And then, that-that starts to get into, you know, your ego. 392 00:26:24,085 --> 00:26:25,462 You're like, "Oh, my God, 393 00:26:25,462 --> 00:26:28,548 "I got thousands of people watching me. I was a nobody, 394 00:26:28,548 --> 00:26:31,301 I-- and now I got people rooting me on?" 395 00:26:31,301 --> 00:26:33,845 And you don't wanna let 'em down. 396 00:26:36,139 --> 00:26:37,766 They pushed us out of the van. 397 00:26:37,766 --> 00:26:40,060 And I think we had to crawl through, like, chicken wire. 398 00:26:40,060 --> 00:26:41,978 They had, like, some maze through a garage. 399 00:26:45,190 --> 00:26:47,901 When we got to the other side, that's when we met Russ, 400 00:26:47,901 --> 00:26:50,820 and he looked so happy, so excited. 401 00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:53,573 He had a big old flashlight with a camera on his head. 402 00:26:55,116 --> 00:26:57,744 In the moment, just the way he's, like, talking about it 403 00:26:57,744 --> 00:27:01,248 and the tone of his voice as he's talking about it as it's happening. 404 00:27:01,248 --> 00:27:04,793 [on TV] Are you prepared? Good. This is your one chance. 405 00:27:04,793 --> 00:27:08,088 I'm gonna give you an out. If you want out, you can get out now. 406 00:27:08,088 --> 00:27:11,007 - Verbalize. - No, I wanna stay in. 407 00:27:11,007 --> 00:27:13,927 Okay, that's what I like. Okay, cover her eyes. 408 00:27:28,441 --> 00:27:30,485 It was definitely an endurance test. 409 00:27:40,203 --> 00:27:43,415 Wall climb! Batman time! Batman time! 410 00:27:44,457 --> 00:27:47,836 There is no EMTs. There are no medics. 411 00:27:47,836 --> 00:27:49,629 What happens if you're in a stunt, 412 00:27:49,629 --> 00:27:53,174 and somethin' happens to him, and he's hurt? You could be tied up. 413 00:27:53,174 --> 00:27:56,720 Y-You're stuck, nobody's gonna find you. 414 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,014 - Oh! No, you go in there! 415 00:27:59,014 --> 00:28:01,099 - Sit! 416 00:28:02,601 --> 00:28:06,062 Next thing I know, he grabs my chest and dunks my head under water. 417 00:28:06,980 --> 00:28:08,440 And he holds my chest there. 418 00:28:11,776 --> 00:28:13,778 I'm thinking, "If I just hold my breath 419 00:28:13,778 --> 00:28:15,822 "and don't think, stop moving, 420 00:28:15,822 --> 00:28:18,283 he'll eventually pull me back up", which he does. 421 00:28:18,283 --> 00:28:20,368 And then I start gasping for air again. 422 00:28:20,368 --> 00:28:22,704 And then he does it five or six more times. 423 00:28:26,625 --> 00:28:28,460 What if this isn't fake? 424 00:28:28,460 --> 00:28:30,670 What if I'm really trapped in this-this freezer now? 425 00:28:30,670 --> 00:28:34,090 Like, and I'm at this guy's house, I don't know where I'm at location-wise. 426 00:28:34,090 --> 00:28:37,844 - [screams] Let me out! - [laughs] Louder! 427 00:28:37,844 --> 00:28:41,389 So, that just all happened in my mind, and I just had a panic attack. 428 00:28:41,389 --> 00:28:43,725 - Let me out! - You want out? 429 00:28:43,725 --> 00:28:47,229 - Oh, you crying? I think she was crying! 430 00:28:47,229 --> 00:28:49,814 Oh, beautiful tears, yes! 431 00:28:50,690 --> 00:28:53,693 - Oh, look at this. Look at the camera. 432 00:28:53,693 --> 00:28:55,278 Look at camera! 433 00:28:56,655 --> 00:28:57,864 I wanna get out. 434 00:28:58,823 --> 00:29:01,910 This is just the beginning. You understand that, right? 435 00:29:01,910 --> 00:29:04,579 There's so many dark places you're gonna go tonight. 436 00:29:09,167 --> 00:29:12,128 There's a certain point where they put us in straitjackets 437 00:29:12,128 --> 00:29:14,756 with chains over our neck, and I was like, "Oh gosh, 438 00:29:14,756 --> 00:29:16,466 this is uncomfortable and it's heavy." 439 00:29:19,886 --> 00:29:22,847 And then that's when the water boarding proceeded to happen. 440 00:29:22,847 --> 00:29:24,975 Put your head in there. 441 00:29:35,777 --> 00:29:39,656 I was like, "Oh, this is what it means to be waterboarded. 442 00:29:39,656 --> 00:29:42,158 I feel like I'm drowning." 443 00:29:43,410 --> 00:29:46,705 So, you're gonna have to be looking for the big baby bottle. 444 00:29:46,913 --> 00:29:49,124 - Yeah, go. 445 00:29:49,124 --> 00:29:51,543 - Ew... Oh... - Get on your belly. 446 00:29:51,543 --> 00:29:54,004 - Get on your belly! 447 00:29:54,004 --> 00:29:56,256 I'm terrified of spiders. Like, to the point 448 00:29:56,256 --> 00:29:59,801 where if I even see one across the room, I get, like, a rash, and I just get itchy 449 00:29:59,801 --> 00:30:02,345 'cause I just cannot stand them. And he knew that. 450 00:30:02,345 --> 00:30:04,890 He asked me going in, like, what my biggest fear was. 451 00:30:09,269 --> 00:30:12,731 - [on TV] Shh. Don't make any noise. 452 00:30:12,731 --> 00:30:14,149 Shh... 453 00:30:14,149 --> 00:30:15,775 Don't make any quick motion. 454 00:30:15,775 --> 00:30:17,652 Please, no. 455 00:30:17,652 --> 00:30:20,113 They were telling me that the tarantula was mad, 456 00:30:20,113 --> 00:30:21,573 and I didn't know that, like, 457 00:30:21,573 --> 00:30:23,867 you're not supposed to handle tarantulas like that. 458 00:30:23,867 --> 00:30:26,161 So he could-- the tarantula, like, could've gotten mad 459 00:30:26,161 --> 00:30:28,622 and like, at me, and bit me, I guess. 460 00:30:28,622 --> 00:30:31,708 So they were like, "Don't cry. Quit freaking out, don't cry." 461 00:30:31,708 --> 00:30:33,835 And I was like, "You have a spider on my face. 462 00:30:33,835 --> 00:30:35,962 How am I not supposed to cry?" And then he's like, 463 00:30:35,962 --> 00:30:37,255 "We're gonna do it anyway. 464 00:30:37,255 --> 00:30:39,090 So like, if you cry, you're gonna get hurt." 465 00:30:39,090 --> 00:30:42,052 So like, in the video, I just froze. I think I just like, stopped breathing, 466 00:30:42,052 --> 00:30:44,429 and I just, like, had an out of body experience. 467 00:30:44,429 --> 00:30:46,848 Please don't. Please. 468 00:30:46,848 --> 00:30:50,101 Look at her. Look at her, Mary, look at her. 469 00:30:50,101 --> 00:30:52,479 - Isn't she pretty? - Please! 470 00:30:52,479 --> 00:30:55,232 - Look at her. - Please don't. 471 00:30:55,232 --> 00:30:57,359 - Please. - Oops. Oops. 472 00:30:57,359 --> 00:30:59,694 Please don't. Please don't. Please don't! 473 00:30:59,694 --> 00:31:01,863 - Shh... 474 00:31:01,863 --> 00:31:04,532 It was, like, that moment that it kind of shifted for me. 475 00:31:12,499 --> 00:31:15,043 I think I'd went seven, eight hours. 476 00:31:16,878 --> 00:31:18,755 Find that baby bottle. 477 00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:24,344 Alright, guys. She's doing really good tonight. 478 00:31:24,344 --> 00:31:27,556 But, in that moment, I'm like the celebrity. 479 00:31:27,556 --> 00:31:29,057 I have this huge fan base. 480 00:31:29,057 --> 00:31:31,560 That was big for me. That was huge. 481 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,646 She's a trooper, and she wants to continue on, so, 482 00:31:34,646 --> 00:31:37,357 so we're just, we're doing stuff right now. 483 00:31:37,357 --> 00:31:39,568 You're a rock star. 484 00:31:39,568 --> 00:31:42,070 He closed this cage gate on top of me, 485 00:31:42,070 --> 00:31:44,072 and this water was freezing cold. 486 00:31:44,072 --> 00:31:46,241 And he said, 487 00:31:46,241 --> 00:31:49,327 "Okay, I'm gonna start raising the water level." 488 00:31:49,327 --> 00:31:52,414 When I could start feeling the water rise and when I remember 489 00:31:52,414 --> 00:31:54,749 I tried to put resistance on the cage, 490 00:31:54,749 --> 00:31:56,877 and I-- it wouldn't budge, 491 00:31:58,044 --> 00:32:00,297 that's when I just, I was like, I'm done. I'm done. 492 00:32:03,842 --> 00:32:05,802 - Exactly, exactly. - I ended up quitting. 493 00:32:05,802 --> 00:32:09,222 - You got punished here. - This is her punishment 494 00:32:09,222 --> 00:32:11,516 for not findin' the baby bottle. 495 00:32:11,516 --> 00:32:14,144 - McKamey Manor just what? - McKamey Manor just kicked my ass. 496 00:32:14,144 --> 00:32:15,645 - And you quit. - And I quit. 497 00:32:15,645 --> 00:32:19,190 - I didn't wanna die. - [crying] I'm done. 498 00:32:19,190 --> 00:32:21,109 - Tell me you quit. - I quit. 499 00:32:21,109 --> 00:32:23,486 I don't wanna be locked in the dark anymore. 500 00:32:23,486 --> 00:32:25,947 Russ is there the entire time, recording it. 501 00:32:25,947 --> 00:32:29,451 And the joy and, like, pleasure 502 00:32:29,451 --> 00:32:33,121 that he was getting out of it was extremely weird. 503 00:32:33,121 --> 00:32:35,290 You could see he was unfazed. 504 00:32:35,290 --> 00:32:39,669 I'm here, bawling, I'm bleeding, and you're just living your best life, 505 00:32:39,669 --> 00:32:42,505 trying to figure out how much further you could take it. 506 00:32:42,505 --> 00:32:44,799 And I'm just-- that's concerning to me. 507 00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:47,969 But in the moment, I was like, "Oh, this is Russ, this is the guy. 508 00:32:47,969 --> 00:32:50,430 He has the camera on his head. Let's do the tour." 509 00:32:50,972 --> 00:32:53,183 Some of these other extreme haunts, 510 00:32:53,183 --> 00:32:57,020 the trust that I've given them has not been broken. 511 00:32:57,020 --> 00:33:00,982 Even though I'm telling them to push, even though I'm telling them 512 00:33:00,982 --> 00:33:04,819 to do worse and worse stuff to me, I think, deep down, 513 00:33:05,528 --> 00:33:07,614 I know that they're not gonna kill me. 514 00:33:07,614 --> 00:33:10,283 You know, I know they're not gonna cause 515 00:33:10,283 --> 00:33:13,453 permanent physical danger, 516 00:33:13,453 --> 00:33:17,415 but trust was broken with Russ McKamey. 517 00:33:22,295 --> 00:33:24,589 My experience was fucked up, but I also am aware 518 00:33:24,589 --> 00:33:27,133 that every experience after mine 519 00:33:27,133 --> 00:33:30,679 was a thousand times worse because I think he did see 520 00:33:30,679 --> 00:33:33,974 that he kind of was able to keep us for seven hours, 521 00:33:33,974 --> 00:33:37,519 and kind of do whatever he wanted, and, like, we didn't do anything about it. 522 00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:40,522 We just, like, left and said, "Thanks so much, have a great time." 523 00:33:40,522 --> 00:33:43,525 So I think for him that was validation. Like, "Oh, I could do more." 524 00:33:45,110 --> 00:33:49,072 Hey, everybody, it's Russ. Coming at you right here from McKamey Manor. 525 00:33:49,072 --> 00:33:53,618 Never come here. Don't let-- Don't let anybody 526 00:33:53,618 --> 00:33:55,870 talk you into it or any of that 527 00:33:55,870 --> 00:33:58,665 because it's, um, it's brutal. 528 00:34:06,131 --> 00:34:07,507 The "why." 529 00:34:15,849 --> 00:34:17,809 Everybody's always gonna wonder the why, 530 00:34:17,809 --> 00:34:21,855 and the why is different for each and every individual that goes through. 531 00:34:28,570 --> 00:34:30,071 My name is DJ Williams. 532 00:34:30,071 --> 00:34:33,158 I'm a full professor at Idaho State University 533 00:34:33,158 --> 00:34:34,826 in Pocatello, Idaho. 534 00:34:34,826 --> 00:34:38,705 I was given the title Dr. Deviant from a dominatrix who I mentored under. 535 00:34:40,206 --> 00:34:42,417 And my research covers sort of the range 536 00:34:42,417 --> 00:34:44,628 and spectrum of deviance and leisure, 537 00:34:44,628 --> 00:34:47,088 and that can include a lot of different things. 538 00:34:47,088 --> 00:34:50,008 That can include criminal activity as leisure. 539 00:34:50,008 --> 00:34:54,054 It can include BDSM and sexuality as leisure. 540 00:34:54,930 --> 00:34:58,558 The extreme horror, extreme experiences phenomenon, 541 00:34:58,558 --> 00:35:01,436 definitely fits within the area of deviant leisure. 542 00:35:02,729 --> 00:35:04,648 And it's hard for people to understand 543 00:35:04,648 --> 00:35:08,693 someone who is clearly an intense sensation seeker or risk taker 544 00:35:08,693 --> 00:35:11,529 that those challenges are actual needs. 545 00:35:11,529 --> 00:35:14,950 And so, we need to have a space, an, an acceptance for people 546 00:35:14,950 --> 00:35:17,077 who are craving those kinds of needs. 547 00:35:17,077 --> 00:35:20,205 So, I think it's easy for, sometimes people to kinda sit back and say, 548 00:35:20,205 --> 00:35:24,125 "Why would somebody do this? There must be something wrong with them." 549 00:35:24,125 --> 00:35:26,670 And that's not the case, necessarily. 550 00:35:29,798 --> 00:35:32,634 I grew up in private Christian school. 551 00:35:32,634 --> 00:35:35,387 I grew up hearing if you lie, you're gonna go to Hell. 552 00:35:35,387 --> 00:35:37,597 And it wasn't just, like, you're gonna go to Hell. 553 00:35:37,597 --> 00:35:41,059 It's like, "Your skin is gonna burn off, and your eyes are gonna melt." 554 00:35:41,059 --> 00:35:42,394 And I'm, like, 5. 555 00:35:43,603 --> 00:35:47,357 I am queer, so being Black-queer in a space like that, 556 00:35:47,357 --> 00:35:49,651 was really hard to navigate as, like, a young kid. 557 00:35:49,651 --> 00:35:52,445 It's, like, pro-conversion therapy, "Let's get that out of you. 558 00:35:52,445 --> 00:35:54,906 This isn't natural. You're living a life of sin." 559 00:35:54,906 --> 00:35:57,993 So just growing up hearing that, I didn't even know that it was okay. 560 00:35:57,993 --> 00:35:59,953 I didn't even know what queer was. 561 00:35:59,953 --> 00:36:02,497 I just knew that, like, I was really different. 562 00:36:02,497 --> 00:36:05,250 I just knew that it was bad and evil. 563 00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:08,503 To this day, like, I have anxiety 24/7, 564 00:36:08,503 --> 00:36:10,714 so, like, even right now, my heart's like... [exhales]. 565 00:36:10,714 --> 00:36:13,592 It used to be so bad where I couldn't go to the grocery store, 566 00:36:13,592 --> 00:36:15,093 I would just like sit in my car 567 00:36:15,093 --> 00:36:17,596 'cause just I felt too overwhelmed with everything. 568 00:36:17,596 --> 00:36:21,016 So, when I watch a horror film, I have that same feeling, 569 00:36:21,016 --> 00:36:24,352 but it's safely on my couch, and it makes sense. 570 00:36:25,437 --> 00:36:28,523 It's like, oh, there's a guy with a chainsaw on the TV, 571 00:36:28,523 --> 00:36:29,900 like, gonna hurt somebody. 572 00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:32,027 There's a reason to be anxious in this moment. 573 00:36:32,944 --> 00:36:34,738 Which is why I started looking into 574 00:36:34,738 --> 00:36:37,073 the whole immersive horror experience thing. 575 00:36:37,073 --> 00:36:40,035 So, I was like, "What if I live through something crazy" 576 00:36:40,035 --> 00:36:43,163 and then I know that I can do anything going forward. 577 00:36:43,163 --> 00:36:44,623 It reminds me, "Hey, 578 00:36:44,623 --> 00:36:48,293 "I just went through this series of events, 579 00:36:48,293 --> 00:36:49,586 and I survived." 580 00:36:54,216 --> 00:36:56,843 As a young child, 581 00:36:57,636 --> 00:37:00,430 I dealt with an abusive mother. 582 00:37:01,556 --> 00:37:04,434 Being put into a foster home at such a young age 583 00:37:04,434 --> 00:37:06,895 was very, very traumatic. 584 00:37:07,646 --> 00:37:11,441 It was scary having to go through people and people and people, 585 00:37:11,441 --> 00:37:15,528 and tell the same story over and over again of what happened. 586 00:37:15,528 --> 00:37:17,447 To be one day ripped apart 587 00:37:17,447 --> 00:37:20,116 from everyone you know and everything. 588 00:37:20,116 --> 00:37:23,119 To be told you're taken to a safer place, 589 00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:28,041 and the place you're going to is just full of unknown and uncertainty, 590 00:37:28,041 --> 00:37:31,127 and it just breaks a part of you inside. 591 00:37:32,379 --> 00:37:35,382 I feel like I do these things to remind myself 592 00:37:35,382 --> 00:37:38,176 that I'm strong, and I'm a survivor, 593 00:37:38,176 --> 00:37:40,720 and I can get through a lot of shit. 594 00:37:43,098 --> 00:37:45,100 A lot of people go through 595 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:47,227 really traumatic situations, 596 00:37:47,227 --> 00:37:50,814 and they find something to fill this gap. 597 00:37:50,814 --> 00:37:54,859 And I would see the progress of making it through something that's terrible 598 00:37:54,859 --> 00:37:57,654 and-and using it to the advantage of yourself. 599 00:38:02,450 --> 00:38:06,663 It sounds like there's a lot of, kind of pushing, or here's an edge, 600 00:38:06,663 --> 00:38:08,915 but then, "Okay, I can go beyond that edge. 601 00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:11,459 I just accomplished this. I guess let's take it further." 602 00:38:11,459 --> 00:38:15,213 Like, I feel like I need-- Like, I need that type of punishment. 603 00:38:15,213 --> 00:38:16,506 Mm-hmm. 604 00:38:16,506 --> 00:38:18,592 Like it's something that-- 605 00:38:19,551 --> 00:38:21,678 it's something that I feel like I deserve. 606 00:38:23,597 --> 00:38:26,683 When I got back, I was a completely different person. 607 00:38:26,683 --> 00:38:29,436 Okay and that was after you came back from the military, right? 608 00:38:29,436 --> 00:38:31,104 Yes, that was after my 609 00:38:31,104 --> 00:38:32,772 - third tour in Iraq. - Okay. 610 00:38:32,772 --> 00:38:37,027 I didn't see here as home. This wasn't home to me anymore. 611 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,822 I think I knew I had PTSD. 612 00:38:40,822 --> 00:38:43,408 I sure as hell didn't think I had survivor's guilt, 613 00:38:43,408 --> 00:38:46,161 but one of the things I did is, 614 00:38:46,161 --> 00:38:48,580 I started giving away body parts. 615 00:38:48,580 --> 00:38:50,081 I gave my kidney away. 616 00:38:50,081 --> 00:38:53,710 I was also signed up to give a piece of my liver away. 617 00:38:53,710 --> 00:38:56,713 And I also signed up for the bone marrow transplant list. 618 00:38:58,548 --> 00:39:00,759 I was gonna give away as much as I could. 619 00:39:02,093 --> 00:39:04,262 I didn't see any purpose anymore. 620 00:39:06,223 --> 00:39:08,600 There's parts of me that are essentially broken, you know, 621 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,102 and, emotionally, mentally, physically, what have you. 622 00:39:11,102 --> 00:39:14,356 It's not a bad thing to push the limits 623 00:39:14,356 --> 00:39:17,108 or to, you know, have a very real human experience 624 00:39:17,108 --> 00:39:19,361 or to explore the edges of human experience. 625 00:39:19,361 --> 00:39:22,280 I think that's actually an awesome thing. 626 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,867 But, you are desensitizing yourself to those natural cues, 627 00:39:25,867 --> 00:39:28,954 where your brain and your body is saying, "This is my limit." 628 00:39:30,247 --> 00:39:31,331 Yeah. 629 00:39:31,331 --> 00:39:34,209 That's something really good to think about. 630 00:39:35,210 --> 00:39:38,213 Well, I mean, I just look at those ultra-marathon runners, right? 631 00:39:38,213 --> 00:39:42,217 They punish their body. Their feet are torn to pieces, you know? 632 00:39:42,217 --> 00:39:45,720 It's all in the name of, you know, self-improvement. 633 00:39:48,181 --> 00:39:50,600 You have big wave surfers, 634 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,062 you have freestyle mountain climbers who use no safety gear, 635 00:39:54,062 --> 00:39:56,147 deep ocean divers, 636 00:39:56,147 --> 00:39:58,525 and they're constantly pushing that edge. 637 00:39:58,525 --> 00:40:00,485 Why is this any different? 638 00:40:00,485 --> 00:40:03,530 I could never run an ultra marathon. I know I can't. 639 00:40:03,530 --> 00:40:05,699 But, I can, I can get tortured for 12 hours. 640 00:40:05,699 --> 00:40:07,617 The fun has just begun. 641 00:40:07,617 --> 00:40:11,329 So far, what you've endured is nothing compared to the last half. 642 00:40:14,624 --> 00:40:18,211 Torture is the intentional infliction 643 00:40:18,211 --> 00:40:22,215 of serious or severe pain and suffering 644 00:40:22,215 --> 00:40:24,426 - on a person... 645 00:40:24,426 --> 00:40:26,595 ...for the purpose of punishment 646 00:40:26,595 --> 00:40:29,139 or to force them to do or say something. 647 00:40:31,308 --> 00:40:32,934 My name is Alka Pradhan. 648 00:40:32,934 --> 00:40:36,104 I'm a human rights attorney practicing at Guantanamo Bay 649 00:40:36,104 --> 00:40:38,398 and before the International Criminal Court. 650 00:40:38,398 --> 00:40:41,776 And my expertise is in working with torture victims. 651 00:40:42,736 --> 00:40:47,365 And in my work at Guantanamo Bay, I'm employed by the Department of Defense. 652 00:40:47,365 --> 00:40:49,993 And so, nothing I say represents 653 00:40:49,993 --> 00:40:52,370 the opinion of the Department of Defense. 654 00:40:52,370 --> 00:40:55,832 And nothing I say should be taken to confirm or deny any information 655 00:40:55,832 --> 00:40:58,960 that the Department of Defense considers to be classified. 656 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:03,006 Personally, I am really repulsed 657 00:41:03,006 --> 00:41:07,052 by the idea of anyone using torture 658 00:41:07,052 --> 00:41:10,347 or acts that simulate torture 659 00:41:10,347 --> 00:41:13,225 in a way that is entertaining. 660 00:41:15,435 --> 00:41:18,396 Nothing about torture is entertaining. 661 00:41:18,396 --> 00:41:21,733 Undergoing torture doesn't really strengthen you. 662 00:41:21,733 --> 00:41:23,318 If it doesn't kill people, 663 00:41:23,318 --> 00:41:26,279 it affects them for the entirety of their lives. 664 00:41:27,322 --> 00:41:29,991 The first thing to keep in mind is that 665 00:41:32,410 --> 00:41:34,329 all torture has psychological effects. 666 00:41:34,579 --> 00:41:38,333 Even if you consent to some aspect of that, 667 00:41:38,333 --> 00:41:40,752 the fear created in your mind, 668 00:41:41,878 --> 00:41:45,340 what psychologists often call "uncontrollable stress," 669 00:41:46,091 --> 00:41:48,385 can literally change your neural pathways. 670 00:41:48,385 --> 00:41:51,638 And it's something that is almost impossible to remove. 671 00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:57,894 So, did-did you expect all that after, you know? 672 00:41:57,894 --> 00:42:01,231 Well, I expected it to be rough, but I didn't expect to actually cry. 673 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,113 - Yeah, you did cry. - Yeah, like five times. 674 00:42:11,283 --> 00:42:14,828 Russ posted my video on YouTube, and it went super viral. 675 00:42:20,792 --> 00:42:22,961 A few months after going through it, 676 00:42:22,961 --> 00:42:25,380 I, so bad, just wanted to be involved 677 00:42:25,380 --> 00:42:27,382 with, like, anything to do with horror. 678 00:42:27,382 --> 00:42:30,468 Whether it was, like, acting or, like, writing or anything. 679 00:42:31,469 --> 00:42:33,138 And Russ saw that. 680 00:42:34,055 --> 00:42:37,684 And I ended up running his Facebook group, I was running his YouTube channel, 681 00:42:37,684 --> 00:42:40,353 I was running his Twitter. I was like his little assistant. 682 00:42:40,353 --> 00:42:43,106 Get people into the haunt, hype it up. 683 00:42:43,106 --> 00:42:45,317 If people were talking negatively about it, 684 00:42:45,317 --> 00:42:47,319 I was supposed to, like, undercut them. 685 00:42:47,319 --> 00:42:50,238 Be like, "No, like, I've met Russ. He's, like, such a great guy." 686 00:42:50,238 --> 00:42:53,450 So, I was just supposed to be his, like, wingman. 687 00:42:54,701 --> 00:42:57,954 But then, I started to get some weird feelings. 688 00:42:57,954 --> 00:42:59,789 Um, 689 00:42:59,789 --> 00:43:03,335 I'm just gonna keep this short. It's actually hard to talk. 690 00:43:03,335 --> 00:43:07,380 As you can see, my lips are severely swollen. 691 00:43:07,380 --> 00:43:09,674 He likes men that have been in the military. 692 00:43:09,674 --> 00:43:13,511 I think Russ really got off on, like, the power dynamic with the men. 693 00:43:16,056 --> 00:43:18,141 There are some tours where 694 00:43:18,141 --> 00:43:21,478 the way that they were beat up was just too-- like, too far. 695 00:43:21,478 --> 00:43:24,105 Like, broken ribs, concussions, 696 00:43:24,105 --> 00:43:26,441 like, eyes so swollen that they can't even open 'em. 697 00:43:29,152 --> 00:43:30,654 And I think for him, it's power. 698 00:43:30,654 --> 00:43:33,448 Like, "This guy was in the Marines? Like, look at me kicking his ass." 699 00:43:38,078 --> 00:43:41,373 - And then, like, vulnerable women. - No, Russ, that water freaks me out. 700 00:43:41,373 --> 00:43:43,625 - You know that! I hate-- 701 00:43:43,625 --> 00:43:45,752 Please! Please, don't! 702 00:43:45,752 --> 00:43:48,672 Russ feels that if you go through one of his experiences, 703 00:43:48,672 --> 00:43:52,092 especially if you're female, you now have a special bond with Russ. 704 00:43:52,092 --> 00:43:55,595 He really only wanted, like, pretty girls. 705 00:43:57,180 --> 00:43:59,599 No. No! No. 706 00:43:59,599 --> 00:44:01,268 Honey, be quiet. 707 00:44:03,603 --> 00:44:07,649 You knew when he had a new girlfriend because it was nonstop shows. 708 00:44:07,649 --> 00:44:10,277 He would have them come to his house, 709 00:44:10,277 --> 00:44:12,445 and he would just make them 710 00:44:12,445 --> 00:44:14,948 continuously go through a tour 711 00:44:14,948 --> 00:44:16,741 every day that they were with him. 712 00:44:19,452 --> 00:44:22,455 - For some reasons, he feels like 713 00:44:22,455 --> 00:44:24,749 with these women he can go an extra step, 714 00:44:24,749 --> 00:44:28,336 and that safety harness just gets removed a little more. 715 00:44:28,336 --> 00:44:31,798 Things like laying in the grass with a ski mask on my face, 716 00:44:31,798 --> 00:44:33,967 getting sprayed with water over and over, 717 00:44:33,967 --> 00:44:37,137 or submerging into cold water over and over. 718 00:44:37,137 --> 00:44:38,930 And in one particular activity, 719 00:44:38,930 --> 00:44:41,766 I confessed that I was actually afraid of dying. 720 00:44:41,766 --> 00:44:44,895 And he laughed and said that if I died, 721 00:44:44,895 --> 00:44:46,521 at least I would be on camera. 722 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,650 These are really good-looking women. 723 00:44:50,650 --> 00:44:52,861 And you got this guy who lives in a trailer 724 00:44:52,861 --> 00:44:54,946 that sprays you in the face with a hose. 725 00:44:54,946 --> 00:44:58,783 What is he doing to keep 'em to stay? 726 00:44:59,367 --> 00:45:01,328 - I don't know. - I like that. 727 00:45:01,328 --> 00:45:04,414 - There she is! 728 00:45:04,414 --> 00:45:07,500 There she is! The pretty one right there. 729 00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:09,753 McKamey Manor was "Tinder" to him. 730 00:45:09,753 --> 00:45:11,171 Was his "Plenty of Fish." 731 00:45:11,171 --> 00:45:14,257 That's what he used it for. That's the impression that I got. 732 00:45:14,257 --> 00:45:16,426 You can do this. Put your head up, please. 733 00:45:17,886 --> 00:45:20,055 You got this, okay? You got it. 734 00:45:20,055 --> 00:45:24,059 He was my friend. Like, I don't want to think that he would actually 735 00:45:24,059 --> 00:45:27,729 purposely manipulate these women, but he does. 736 00:45:27,729 --> 00:45:30,315 Show 'em what you got in your mouth. 737 00:45:30,315 --> 00:45:32,984 - Ah, ah, ah! - That's right. 738 00:45:32,984 --> 00:45:35,862 - Come here, and you can wear that, too. - Yep! 739 00:45:35,862 --> 00:45:38,031 He knows how to get into people's heads, 740 00:45:38,031 --> 00:45:42,118 he knows the right thing to say, he can read a person really good. 741 00:45:42,535 --> 00:45:45,247 I've seen Russ talk to a person 742 00:45:45,247 --> 00:45:48,458 that hates everything about the haunt, 743 00:45:48,458 --> 00:45:50,710 and turn them into a friend by the end 744 00:45:50,710 --> 00:45:52,212 and wanting to sign up. 745 00:45:52,212 --> 00:45:55,090 He-He is so good at what he does. 746 00:45:55,090 --> 00:45:58,009 Yeah, I'm that big crazy haunted house guy! That's me! 747 00:45:58,009 --> 00:46:00,929 - Are you scared of me? 748 00:46:00,929 --> 00:46:02,597 I'm pretty scary, aren't I? 749 00:46:05,892 --> 00:46:08,562 You know, he would try to manipulate me, too. 750 00:46:13,233 --> 00:46:15,026 When I went through, 751 00:46:16,027 --> 00:46:19,990 Russ had me sit back in, like, a trough. 752 00:46:22,284 --> 00:46:25,036 - Yeah. You like that? - No. 753 00:46:26,121 --> 00:46:30,375 We're gonna fill up this entire little device right here. 754 00:46:32,460 --> 00:46:34,629 And we're gonna have a good time, Kris. 755 00:46:34,629 --> 00:46:36,298 - Oh, yeah. 756 00:46:36,298 --> 00:46:40,802 When I started to realize that I was having the dirt poured over my face... 757 00:46:40,802 --> 00:46:43,930 - No, no, no, no, no. 758 00:46:43,930 --> 00:46:45,724 - How's that feel? 759 00:46:45,724 --> 00:46:46,808 No, no, no, no. 760 00:46:46,808 --> 00:46:49,227 ...and then you're thinking, "Russ is my friend." 761 00:46:49,227 --> 00:46:52,355 You know, "He's-He's just gonna make it look good for the camera." 762 00:46:53,064 --> 00:46:54,566 But then, he didn't stop. 763 00:46:54,566 --> 00:46:56,985 - No, no, no, no, no... - Who's your friend? 764 00:46:56,985 --> 00:46:58,904 - Quiet, shut up. Shut up. 765 00:46:58,904 --> 00:47:00,572 And I can't even tell you 766 00:47:00,572 --> 00:47:03,575 the amount of times in that video that I said "Stop." 767 00:47:03,575 --> 00:47:05,911 - We're gonna bury you completely. 768 00:47:05,911 --> 00:47:08,288 Mm-mm. No, I can't do it. Can't do it. 769 00:47:08,288 --> 00:47:10,665 - No, I can't do it. - You gotta be quiet. 770 00:47:10,665 --> 00:47:12,792 - Be quiet! - No, I'm freaking out. 771 00:47:12,792 --> 00:47:15,086 - You're not freaking out. - [spits] No! 772 00:47:15,086 --> 00:47:17,547 I was done. Game over. 773 00:47:17,547 --> 00:47:20,759 And it just kept going and going and going. 774 00:47:20,759 --> 00:47:23,803 And in that moment, I didn't know if it was gonna stop. 775 00:47:23,803 --> 00:47:26,014 We have hours and hours to go, Kris. 776 00:47:26,014 --> 00:47:27,891 No, no, no. Russ, no. 777 00:47:27,891 --> 00:47:29,809 - No more, no more. - You're fine. 778 00:47:29,809 --> 00:47:31,770 - Be quiet. - I quit, I quit. 779 00:47:31,770 --> 00:47:33,647 You don't quit. There is no quitting. 780 00:47:33,647 --> 00:47:35,732 - [spits] No. - There is no quitting, Kris. 781 00:47:35,732 --> 00:47:38,276 I-I started to question, "Is this the end?" 782 00:47:38,276 --> 00:47:39,653 I-I can't get out of this. 783 00:47:39,653 --> 00:47:42,948 I was stuck in a spot that I was not moving from. 784 00:47:42,948 --> 00:47:45,533 I wanna bury you completely. Completely. 785 00:47:45,533 --> 00:47:48,161 No, I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. 786 00:47:48,161 --> 00:47:50,705 - Russ, I can't. Russ, I can't. 787 00:47:50,705 --> 00:47:53,667 - I quit. Russ, I quit. I can't. - There's no quitting. 788 00:47:53,667 --> 00:47:56,086 - Russ, I-- - Ooh there! 789 00:47:56,086 --> 00:47:59,756 That doubt starts to seep into your head, and you're thinkin', 790 00:47:59,756 --> 00:48:02,425 "I didn't say goodbye to people. Why did I come here? 791 00:48:02,425 --> 00:48:04,636 "Why did I go against that better judgment? 792 00:48:04,636 --> 00:48:08,682 Am I finally gonna be the one that the line is crossed for?" 793 00:48:10,767 --> 00:48:12,394 You really don't wanna do this. 794 00:48:15,105 --> 00:48:18,024 So tell the folks about whether they should come here or not. 795 00:48:18,024 --> 00:48:20,318 No, don't go. Don't come here. Don't sign up. 796 00:48:20,318 --> 00:48:23,238 Yeah, sign up. It's fun. Come on down. Good times for everybody. 797 00:48:23,238 --> 00:48:25,198 - No, it's not. - Yes, it is! 798 00:48:36,877 --> 00:48:40,005 You know, what I really enjoy is making my little movies. 799 00:48:42,090 --> 00:48:44,551 So, in a way, I'm a little filmmaker as well. 800 00:48:55,604 --> 00:49:00,734 He works on those videos, it seems like 24/7. 801 00:49:00,734 --> 00:49:04,779 And so, I constantly hear screaming all night long. 802 00:49:07,198 --> 00:49:10,201 People tell me this is fake. Is this fake right now? 803 00:49:10,201 --> 00:49:13,496 - No, sir, it's not fake. 804 00:49:13,496 --> 00:49:16,374 If you ever question if we're real or not, 805 00:49:16,374 --> 00:49:18,793 just watch the movies 806 00:49:18,793 --> 00:49:20,921 and watch how these people end up. 807 00:49:20,921 --> 00:49:23,215 I quit! I quit! I quit! I quit! 808 00:49:24,341 --> 00:49:27,969 You'll see individuals literally in shock. 809 00:49:27,969 --> 00:49:30,555 I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it. 810 00:49:30,555 --> 00:49:32,891 You'll see them mumbling to themselves, 811 00:49:32,891 --> 00:49:36,186 not knowing what date it is, not knowing who the president is. 812 00:49:36,186 --> 00:49:39,022 [on TV] Who's our first president? Quick, hurry up. 813 00:49:39,022 --> 00:49:41,316 - I don't know! 814 00:49:42,442 --> 00:49:45,987 That camera. When that camera's in front, your limits are gone. 815 00:49:45,987 --> 00:49:48,198 - Put your head down. - Anything that you sign, 816 00:49:48,198 --> 00:49:50,033 thinkin' that you were getting into 817 00:49:50,033 --> 00:49:52,869 and those were the rules that were set in place, 818 00:49:52,869 --> 00:49:56,915 they don't exist. He wants that Kodak moment. 819 00:49:56,915 --> 00:50:01,211 He wants to be able to see that true fear, when that person thinks, 820 00:50:01,211 --> 00:50:04,130 "I'm gonna be the first person to die at McKamey Manor." 821 00:50:12,180 --> 00:50:13,807 So, 822 00:50:13,807 --> 00:50:15,475 it was a person, 823 00:50:15,475 --> 00:50:18,562 they sent me photos I hadn't seen. 824 00:50:19,854 --> 00:50:22,732 And it was the photos of Lori. 825 00:50:26,903 --> 00:50:30,865 I'm seein' this girl that was just beaten, like a gang initiation. 826 00:50:33,660 --> 00:50:36,621 And that's when I said, "Why did you let that go?" 827 00:50:38,039 --> 00:50:39,291 And the answer I got was, 828 00:50:39,291 --> 00:50:42,335 "You'd be surprised what you would do to get the right shot." 829 00:50:44,254 --> 00:50:47,924 When I saw these pictures of Lori, I-I couldn't do it anymore. 830 00:51:00,061 --> 00:51:02,272 - [on TV] No? - [on TV] I hate it. 831 00:51:03,106 --> 00:51:04,941 You hate it? Well, 832 00:51:04,941 --> 00:51:07,360 - hold still, my dear. - No! 833 00:51:11,281 --> 00:51:13,783 Oh... God. 834 00:51:13,783 --> 00:51:16,661 - And just for safe-- 835 00:51:16,661 --> 00:51:19,164 Don't cry, you're still beautiful. 836 00:51:21,291 --> 00:51:24,085 Gosh. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. 837 00:51:27,005 --> 00:51:29,216 I don't know how he's able to legally do this 838 00:51:29,216 --> 00:51:31,218 because I don't feel like it's legal. 839 00:51:35,639 --> 00:51:38,683 Yeah, absolutely. I-- Whenever he's physically abusing 840 00:51:38,683 --> 00:51:40,977 the females who he entraps in his house. 841 00:51:40,977 --> 00:51:42,520 How far can we take it? 842 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,522 I don't think I could legally sue him. 843 00:51:44,522 --> 00:51:47,067 We signed agreements. We're consenting adults. 844 00:51:54,866 --> 00:51:57,118 I don't think there was ever a time where I was like, I don't-- 845 00:51:57,118 --> 00:51:59,246 Maybe the spider. But, 846 00:51:59,246 --> 00:52:01,706 I don't think I made it clear with anything else 847 00:52:01,706 --> 00:52:03,541 that I was, like, not consenting. 848 00:52:03,541 --> 00:52:05,669 I didn't really feel like I could say that, though, 849 00:52:05,669 --> 00:52:07,087 'cause I signed the waiver. 850 00:52:07,087 --> 00:52:10,674 So I think signing the waiver, I just felt like, I was obligated to stay in it. 851 00:52:12,926 --> 00:52:15,387 We all agreed to it. 852 00:52:29,484 --> 00:52:31,611 There may be an element of shame 853 00:52:31,611 --> 00:52:34,990 in the fact that you signed up for this experience, um, 854 00:52:34,990 --> 00:52:37,784 and this sense that you kind of brought it on yourself. 855 00:52:37,784 --> 00:52:41,496 But, under the law, even if they have signed a waiver, 856 00:52:42,664 --> 00:52:46,167 they may still have recourse for what was done to them. 857 00:52:49,212 --> 00:52:51,256 We tend to be pretty liberal in the United States 858 00:52:51,256 --> 00:52:52,966 about what you can consent to. 859 00:52:55,260 --> 00:52:57,929 It is certainly possible when you attend, for example, 860 00:52:57,929 --> 00:53:01,308 a haunted house, to consent to certain acts 861 00:53:01,308 --> 00:53:05,228 that may cause fear or that may even touch you 862 00:53:05,228 --> 00:53:09,232 in what would otherwise be considered offensive contact or battery. 863 00:53:12,611 --> 00:53:16,615 But, the line is drawn when something constitutes 864 00:53:16,615 --> 00:53:18,116 serious bodily injury. 865 00:53:18,116 --> 00:53:20,577 Examples of that would be 866 00:53:20,577 --> 00:53:22,412 traumatic brain injuries, 867 00:53:22,412 --> 00:53:23,997 fractures, 868 00:53:23,997 --> 00:53:25,415 back injuries, 869 00:53:25,415 --> 00:53:29,085 and psychological injuries that require prolonged treatment. 870 00:53:29,085 --> 00:53:34,257 So, it is simply not possible for someone to say, 871 00:53:34,257 --> 00:53:38,803 "Yes, I am okay with permanent physical or psychological damage. 872 00:53:39,971 --> 00:53:42,057 Even if they say that, 873 00:53:42,057 --> 00:53:45,143 under the law, that cannot be valid. 874 00:53:45,769 --> 00:53:49,606 But, the other aspect of it is that it's a violation of your consent. 875 00:53:49,606 --> 00:53:52,192 If, for example, your mouth is covered, 876 00:53:52,192 --> 00:53:53,902 so you cannot say the safe word, 877 00:53:53,902 --> 00:53:56,738 or the circumstances in that situation 878 00:53:56,738 --> 00:54:00,158 are such that you really couldn't reasonably be expected 879 00:54:00,158 --> 00:54:02,702 to remember or be able to say a safe word, 880 00:54:02,702 --> 00:54:07,207 but are acting in other ways that make it very clear that you've withdrawn consent. 881 00:54:07,207 --> 00:54:10,126 Please, sir, I don't wanna do this anymore, sir! 882 00:54:10,126 --> 00:54:12,837 Then, I think the proprietor may have a real problem. 883 00:54:25,684 --> 00:54:28,395 I would love to see the manor just go away. 884 00:54:28,937 --> 00:54:31,940 I would love to sit down with everybody that's done it 885 00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:34,818 and just kind of band together and figure out how we can make change 886 00:54:34,818 --> 00:54:36,361 and, like, stop him. 887 00:54:36,361 --> 00:54:39,114 And even if jail isn't where he ends up, that's fine. 888 00:54:39,114 --> 00:54:41,366 Like, he just shouldn't be doing what he's doing. 889 00:54:42,617 --> 00:54:46,371 Once the fans are able to see Russ in his true form, 890 00:54:47,956 --> 00:54:49,583 I'm hoping the following's gone. 891 00:54:49,583 --> 00:54:52,210 And when the following's gone, the manor's gone. 892 00:54:52,210 --> 00:54:55,297 - The way that you stop him 893 00:54:56,089 --> 00:55:00,010 is to make sure the truth is actually known. 894 00:55:06,474 --> 00:55:08,143 I wanted to do something. 895 00:55:08,143 --> 00:55:09,936 But I didn't know what kind of trouble 896 00:55:09,936 --> 00:55:12,898 I was gonna get into from getting into somebody's emails. 897 00:55:18,111 --> 00:55:19,487 Definitely. 898 00:55:24,409 --> 00:55:26,202 It's gonna be worth it in the end. 899 00:55:30,206 --> 00:55:32,876 One day, I was bored. I was looking up on the internet, 900 00:55:32,876 --> 00:55:36,213 "Haunted houses that pay you for going through them." 901 00:55:36,213 --> 00:55:39,007 And I seen this haunted house will give you $20,000 902 00:55:39,007 --> 00:55:40,967 if you make it through it. 903 00:55:40,967 --> 00:55:43,094 I just got married, I had an apartment, 904 00:55:43,094 --> 00:55:45,972 and, um, I was like, "Man, $20,000 is a lot of money." 905 00:55:45,972 --> 00:55:48,225 So, I could use that, and there's no way 906 00:55:48,225 --> 00:55:49,976 I was not gonna get that $20,000. 907 00:55:49,976 --> 00:55:52,270 - His hands are shaking. - Oh, I know. 908 00:55:52,270 --> 00:55:53,563 - He is shaking, isn't he? - Oh, yeah. 909 00:55:53,563 --> 00:55:56,650 - Pop 'em one, Russ. 910 00:55:57,567 --> 00:56:00,070 Come on. Follow my voice, let's go. 911 00:56:04,032 --> 00:56:07,160 - I'm suggesting you quit. - Never. 912 00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,997 - Never. Never? He says never! - I was arguing with him back. 913 00:56:10,997 --> 00:56:13,792 Like, I wasn't bein' passive. I wasn't bein' submissive to him. 914 00:56:13,792 --> 00:56:15,460 And I think that's what really got him mad. 915 00:56:15,460 --> 00:56:18,296 - Sleep first, then you can do it. - For the easiest-- 916 00:56:18,296 --> 00:56:20,423 I don't fall for that crap. Just sleep. 917 00:56:20,423 --> 00:56:24,094 - Okay, y-you need to be quiet. - No, I don't, dude. What a joke-- 918 00:56:24,094 --> 00:56:26,346 - You want a joke, huh? 919 00:56:26,346 --> 00:56:28,974 - You know what? You're done. - Don't even do it, dude. No. 920 00:56:28,974 --> 00:56:30,976 - Get the hell off me. - Keep that camera on. 921 00:56:30,976 --> 00:56:34,938 This is what we're seeing right now. You're out of it right now. You're done. 922 00:56:34,938 --> 00:56:37,190 I thought there was gonna be $20,000. 923 00:56:37,190 --> 00:56:40,193 I thought there was gonna be a haunt. I wasted all my money 924 00:56:40,193 --> 00:56:42,862 and my work days and all that going there, just to get humiliated. 925 00:56:42,862 --> 00:56:44,990 What a freak show that was, right? 926 00:56:44,990 --> 00:56:46,866 At that point I wasn't even mad about the money anymore, 927 00:56:46,866 --> 00:56:47,951 it was just the embarrassment. 928 00:56:52,706 --> 00:56:56,001 So, I started a Facebook page called, "McKamey Manor Exposed." 929 00:56:59,045 --> 00:57:01,673 I wanted it to be a place where people could actually come, 930 00:57:01,673 --> 00:57:04,926 say what they need to say without having to worry about threats. 931 00:57:10,181 --> 00:57:13,935 The biggest thing we found, though, was we actually got into Russ's emails. 932 00:57:16,021 --> 00:57:19,608 Russ has a very old email service, and that's where he messed up. 933 00:57:20,233 --> 00:57:23,153 The company that Russ has for the email has a phone number. 934 00:57:23,153 --> 00:57:26,156 So, I called them, and I was like, "Hey, yeah, I my password." 935 00:57:26,907 --> 00:57:30,201 So, they says, "Okay, what's your name?" "Russ McKamey." 936 00:57:30,201 --> 00:57:32,913 He's like, "Okay, when's the last time you were on your email?" 937 00:57:32,913 --> 00:57:34,706 And I was like, you know, I'm gonna make a good guess. 938 00:57:34,706 --> 00:57:35,916 I'll say, "Oh it was yesterday." 939 00:57:35,916 --> 00:57:37,542 She's like, "Oh, alright. Yeah, that was correct." 940 00:57:37,542 --> 00:57:39,836 I changed the password for my email address, 941 00:57:39,836 --> 00:57:42,672 and then I locked him out. We hit the jackpot. 942 00:57:48,470 --> 00:57:52,224 From his email, we found that he wasn't paying his taxes on his barn. 943 00:57:53,767 --> 00:57:56,353 And Russ wrote this email back to the tax guy saying, 944 00:57:56,353 --> 00:57:59,022 "This manor is fake. Everything I'm saying is fake." 945 00:57:59,022 --> 00:58:02,734 "Russ, I talked to my lawyer today." I got Russ here with his tax problems. 946 00:58:02,734 --> 00:58:06,321 This is from Russ's son: "You absolutely disgust me." 947 00:58:09,532 --> 00:58:13,411 This guy's really obsessed and, like, really going after his girlfriend. 948 00:58:13,411 --> 00:58:15,997 "What you did was absolutely unacceptable." 949 00:58:15,997 --> 00:58:19,042 So I took those emails, I took screenshots, and I showed those. 950 00:58:19,042 --> 00:58:21,419 Here's the proof right here. This is, like, something 951 00:58:21,419 --> 00:58:25,298 you're never gonna see anywhere else. I put everything on my Facebook page, 952 00:58:25,298 --> 00:58:27,509 And I was like, "You guys gotta tell your stories." 953 00:58:31,304 --> 00:58:32,973 All these other groups popped up. 954 00:58:35,058 --> 00:58:37,727 People started posting stuff online 955 00:58:37,727 --> 00:58:40,188 that Russ definitely didn't want anybody to see. 956 00:58:40,647 --> 00:58:44,484 Guys, he will stuff you in a freezer full of water upside down until you tap. 957 00:58:44,484 --> 00:58:48,238 He got his claws so onto my brain. 958 00:58:48,697 --> 00:58:51,783 Once I got away from it, I was like, I'm just gonna expose him. 959 00:58:51,783 --> 00:58:54,244 This is where he's reading over the waiver. 960 00:58:55,662 --> 00:58:58,039 So, I posted the reaction videos on YouTube. 961 00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:00,458 I was very surprised at how many people saw it. 962 00:59:00,458 --> 00:59:05,005 I was in water, and I had, like, this much air to breathe. 963 00:59:05,005 --> 00:59:08,300 Fast forward to now, it's, like, two-point-something million views. 964 00:59:08,300 --> 00:59:12,512 There's so much drama in these online communities, right? 965 00:59:12,512 --> 00:59:15,849 It's the McKamey Manor Facebook group people 966 00:59:15,849 --> 00:59:16,933 fighting these people, 967 00:59:16,933 --> 00:59:18,810 and then those people are fighting against these people. 968 00:59:22,397 --> 00:59:24,524 If you go on his Facebook page, 969 00:59:24,524 --> 00:59:26,234 it's a straight-up cult. 970 00:59:26,234 --> 00:59:28,570 They are obsessed with him. Like, they don't care. 971 00:59:28,570 --> 00:59:32,115 Russ could say the sky is green, and they'll say, "Yes, sir, it is green." 972 00:59:33,366 --> 00:59:35,869 They will go after the people 973 00:59:35,869 --> 00:59:38,288 who they perceive as one of their enemies 974 00:59:38,288 --> 00:59:41,082 or one of their haters with everything that they have. 975 00:59:43,501 --> 00:59:45,670 He would send people to the haters. 976 00:59:45,670 --> 00:59:49,132 He called everyone a hater that didn't agree with what he was doing, 977 00:59:49,132 --> 00:59:52,928 and he basically encouraged them to, like, bully, destroy someone on the internet. 978 00:59:53,845 --> 00:59:57,015 I just got jumped on by all these people from Russ or whatever, 979 00:59:57,015 --> 00:59:58,850 and they just tore me apart. 980 00:59:59,351 --> 01:00:02,312 One guy text me a picture of where I work at. 981 01:00:02,312 --> 01:00:04,272 "You're gonna get a call from us," and, 982 01:00:04,272 --> 01:00:06,858 you know, "See your online activities of what you're doin'." 983 01:00:06,858 --> 01:00:09,236 It's not Russ doin' this. It's his followers. 984 01:00:09,236 --> 01:00:12,906 People started showing personal pictures of me on the internet. 985 01:00:12,906 --> 01:00:16,576 Then went to phone numbers, then went to addresses. 986 01:00:16,576 --> 01:00:20,497 I would get anonymous emails that were saying some godawful things. 987 01:00:20,497 --> 01:00:23,416 Those are all hate groups. Those aren't the real deal. 988 01:00:26,461 --> 01:00:29,923 He was very much like cult leader man. 989 01:00:29,923 --> 01:00:32,801 Like, "Listen to what I'm saying. This is what's good for you. 990 01:00:32,801 --> 01:00:35,053 "This is what a haunted house experience is. 991 01:00:35,053 --> 01:00:37,389 "If anyone tells you otherwise, they're wrong. 992 01:00:37,389 --> 01:00:39,099 "And if you believe that, you're stupid. 993 01:00:39,391 --> 01:00:41,476 "If you're not with me, you're against me. 994 01:00:41,476 --> 01:00:43,395 And I will make your life a living hell." 995 01:00:45,522 --> 01:00:49,192 I started asking questions, and that's what Russ does not want. 996 01:00:49,192 --> 01:00:51,653 That dude is a psychopath! 997 01:00:51,653 --> 01:00:56,032 - I don't even know why you would do it. 998 01:00:56,032 --> 01:00:58,785 There's a whole big group of people, 999 01:00:58,785 --> 01:01:00,996 and all they're trying to do is expose him. 1000 01:01:01,663 --> 01:01:05,041 Russ McKamey and the actors have done some things 1001 01:01:05,041 --> 01:01:07,043 that we need-- they need to answer for. 1002 01:01:07,043 --> 01:01:10,338 Reason he's not in jail is because technically no one has been un-alived yet. 1003 01:01:10,338 --> 01:01:13,633 Russ actually owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. 1004 01:01:13,633 --> 01:01:18,847 Some neighbors actually even called 911, thinking that there had been an abduction. 1005 01:01:19,097 --> 01:01:21,516 The town turned against McKamey Manor. 1006 01:01:21,516 --> 01:01:24,561 There's already a national movement against Russ. 1007 01:01:24,561 --> 01:01:28,064 We need to keep fighting the good fight and, uh, doin' what we're doin'. 1008 01:01:29,190 --> 01:01:30,567 More than 13,000... 1009 01:01:30,567 --> 01:01:32,986 - 18,000... - 56,000 people. 1010 01:01:32,986 --> 01:01:36,948 ...signing a Change.org petition to have McKamey Manor closed. 1011 01:01:38,950 --> 01:01:40,660 The petitions were comin'. 1012 01:01:40,660 --> 01:01:42,954 Continuing to get more signatures. 1013 01:01:45,916 --> 01:01:48,710 Now, you got the media's attention. 1014 01:01:49,169 --> 01:01:52,005 You are getting reporters wanting to show up on site. 1015 01:01:52,005 --> 01:01:55,300 When you're running this big charade 1016 01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:57,761 of a haunt that's supposedly there, 1017 01:01:58,637 --> 01:02:00,597 how do you not show them that stuff? 1018 01:02:01,348 --> 01:02:04,726 So, Russ ran with the petitions to shut down 1019 01:02:05,143 --> 01:02:08,688 and said, "Oh, they got the best of us. The Manor's down." 1020 01:02:15,445 --> 01:02:17,697 Right now, we're dismantling the manor. 1021 01:02:19,950 --> 01:02:21,868 He literally packed up very quickly 1022 01:02:21,868 --> 01:02:24,371 and booked it across the country somewhere else. 1023 01:02:31,253 --> 01:02:33,964 Russ is working. He works at Walmart. 1024 01:02:36,049 --> 01:02:38,051 I think he was just doing it 1025 01:02:38,051 --> 01:02:40,011 because there was a lull 1026 01:02:40,011 --> 01:02:42,556 at getting people to the manor. 1027 01:02:42,556 --> 01:02:47,394 Russ, the guy that had McKamey Manor, has moved to around here 1028 01:02:47,394 --> 01:02:49,980 where I live the last couple years. 1029 01:02:49,980 --> 01:02:52,566 Well, I just found out on Facebook that apparently, 1030 01:02:52,566 --> 01:02:54,901 he works at Walmart in the Garden Center. 1031 01:02:54,901 --> 01:02:58,280 Wait, you stay. If I need you, holler for back up. 1032 01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,324 This is where this man has decided to relocate. 1033 01:03:01,741 --> 01:03:03,451 - How are you? - Hey, how you doing? 1034 01:03:03,451 --> 01:03:04,744 Want a bag, miss? 1035 01:03:09,374 --> 01:03:11,710 Y'all, that was fucking him, 1036 01:03:11,710 --> 01:03:14,254 and it just checked me out. I'm shaking. 1037 01:03:14,254 --> 01:03:16,339 I didn't-- I thought I was gonna be all confrontational, 1038 01:03:16,339 --> 01:03:18,258 and I thought I was gonna, like, say this, 1039 01:03:18,258 --> 01:03:19,801 but it's like when you're in the fucking-- 1040 01:03:19,801 --> 01:03:22,679 When you're actually in the presence of a sociopath, 1041 01:03:22,679 --> 01:03:25,015 and you know it, 1042 01:03:25,015 --> 01:03:27,142 bro, you lose all that confidence. 1043 01:03:27,142 --> 01:03:31,563 Oh, my God, I'm literally shaking. 1044 01:03:37,485 --> 01:03:40,488 There's three types of Russ that you should know. 1045 01:03:41,239 --> 01:03:44,910 There is the fun-loving Russ that the followers love. 1046 01:03:44,910 --> 01:03:47,245 - That's a front. - Help. 1047 01:03:47,245 --> 01:03:49,915 You have the scary Russ who's going through the show 1048 01:03:49,915 --> 01:03:51,708 you're dealing with. That's a front. 1049 01:03:51,875 --> 01:03:54,544 And then, you have the real Russ. 1050 01:03:55,962 --> 01:03:59,841 He has so much wrong going on in his head, 1051 01:03:59,841 --> 01:04:03,011 and-and it comes out in the haunt. 1052 01:04:06,890 --> 01:04:09,809 You know, it's no joke in here. I mean, people think that, 1053 01:04:09,809 --> 01:04:11,603 well, you know, it's a home haunt. 1054 01:04:11,603 --> 01:04:14,189 But, I'm telling ya. It's scary. 1055 01:04:15,315 --> 01:04:17,317 Russ needs to get help, 1056 01:04:18,902 --> 01:04:21,029 or he's gonna keep going till it's too far. 1057 01:04:32,290 --> 01:04:33,792 I'm back. 1058 01:04:35,001 --> 01:04:37,629 ♪ I'm back, I'm back, I'm back ♪ 1059 01:04:37,629 --> 01:04:41,299 ♪ Anybody there? Anybody there? ♪ 1060 01:04:46,513 --> 01:04:49,391 - You better start begging right now! - I'm begging right now. 1061 01:04:49,391 --> 01:04:51,226 I don't-- I don't wanna go anymore. I'm done. 1062 01:04:52,185 --> 01:04:54,980 Russ is not quitting. He kept it going. 1063 01:04:55,522 --> 01:04:59,359 Now, there aren't actors. You are just with Russ going through. 1064 01:04:59,359 --> 01:05:03,947 You are getting a very dangerous experience. 1065 01:05:03,947 --> 01:05:07,993 His tours now, at this point, he's just doing it to hurt people 1066 01:05:07,993 --> 01:05:09,661 and to prove a point to us, 1067 01:05:09,661 --> 01:05:11,997 to everyone else that, like, talked out on him. 1068 01:05:11,997 --> 01:05:15,292 Like a, "I'm gonna get back at you and show you that I can still do this, 1069 01:05:15,292 --> 01:05:17,252 people still wanna be tortured by me." 1070 01:05:17,252 --> 01:05:20,255 - Are you done? 1071 01:05:20,255 --> 01:05:22,215 Back in the day, he had a haunted house 1072 01:05:22,215 --> 01:05:24,134 and now what it is, is definitely not a haunt. 1073 01:05:25,677 --> 01:05:29,055 It's pretty much, you know, Russ in his yard messin' with you. 1074 01:05:31,641 --> 01:05:33,727 You know, you're with a guy by himself. 1075 01:05:33,727 --> 01:05:36,271 Everything he does is justified in his head. 1076 01:05:36,271 --> 01:05:38,481 There is no limits. 1077 01:05:38,481 --> 01:05:39,774 No, no! 1078 01:05:48,366 --> 01:05:50,619 I live in such a small town. 1079 01:05:50,619 --> 01:05:52,746 And I'm basically a nobody. 1080 01:05:52,746 --> 01:05:55,206 And, you know, that's how I felt about myself. 1081 01:05:56,583 --> 01:06:00,045 During my first tour, you know, you had all these signs, 1082 01:06:00,837 --> 01:06:03,840 but, at the time, I didn't wanna deal with that. 1083 01:06:04,883 --> 01:06:07,510 I'd just seen a nice person 1084 01:06:07,510 --> 01:06:11,431 that was giving me everything I needed at the time. 1085 01:06:11,431 --> 01:06:13,099 I just felt like I got 1086 01:06:13,099 --> 01:06:16,019 really taken easy on, looking back. 1087 01:06:16,019 --> 01:06:18,897 I was nobody before any of this, 1088 01:06:18,897 --> 01:06:21,149 and I'd wake up with a million messages 1089 01:06:21,149 --> 01:06:23,193 from all these people who supported me. 1090 01:06:23,193 --> 01:06:26,655 Like, me. The nobody that was once before, 1091 01:06:26,655 --> 01:06:30,075 now has a million people hyping her up 1092 01:06:30,075 --> 01:06:32,661 and just being friendly. 1093 01:06:32,661 --> 01:06:35,247 And [laughs] it was just life changing, 1094 01:06:35,247 --> 01:06:37,165 and I didn't want it to end. 1095 01:06:37,749 --> 01:06:41,294 I wasn't anticipating coming back, 1096 01:06:41,294 --> 01:06:43,547 but he was up on my phone, 1097 01:06:43,547 --> 01:06:45,507 texting or calling or video chatting. 1098 01:06:45,507 --> 01:06:47,717 Like, I didn't even have time to even think about 1099 01:06:47,717 --> 01:06:49,886 what had happened and what I went through. 1100 01:06:51,263 --> 01:06:54,391 I remember when Melissa Everly was going through it. 1101 01:06:54,391 --> 01:06:56,768 She is Russ' type. 1102 01:06:58,645 --> 01:07:01,648 I met Melissa, reaching out and trying 1103 01:07:01,648 --> 01:07:03,775 to talk her out of going to McKamey Manor, 1104 01:07:03,775 --> 01:07:06,194 and she was drinkin' the Kool-Aid. 1105 01:07:06,194 --> 01:07:09,281 She was buying in and listenin' to Russ. 1106 01:07:09,281 --> 01:07:12,033 Russ was the good guy. All of us were just crazies. 1107 01:07:12,033 --> 01:07:15,704 And the first conversation we had, it wasn't a great one. 1108 01:07:15,704 --> 01:07:19,708 She thought I was some loon that was some hater trying to talk her out of it. 1109 01:07:21,167 --> 01:07:24,296 Russ was dangling everything over my head. 1110 01:07:24,296 --> 01:07:26,131 "Look, you're the Abyss Queen." 1111 01:07:26,131 --> 01:07:29,092 He gave me a nickname and rolled with it 1112 01:07:29,092 --> 01:07:31,136 and had everybody calling me that. 1113 01:07:31,136 --> 01:07:33,346 And that's how people knew me. He was like, 1114 01:07:33,346 --> 01:07:35,932 "Oh, well, think of your fans." 1115 01:07:35,932 --> 01:07:38,852 I wanted to beat the thing and be the first to complete it. 1116 01:07:39,644 --> 01:07:40,854 He knew that. 1117 01:07:42,022 --> 01:07:44,441 One day, he messaged me and was like, 1118 01:07:44,441 --> 01:07:46,818 "Hey, can you make it for a tour tomorrow?" 1119 01:07:52,824 --> 01:07:56,202 I drive down for the second tour. 1120 01:07:57,871 --> 01:08:01,666 Russ ends up coming over to the hotel room. 1121 01:08:02,250 --> 01:08:04,502 And I knew from the YouTube videos, 1122 01:08:04,502 --> 01:08:07,714 this isn't the first time he's been in somebody's hotel room. 1123 01:08:07,714 --> 01:08:10,800 And so, in my mind, it's harmless. 1124 01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,638 He was coming over to instruct me on what to do for the evening. 1125 01:08:14,638 --> 01:08:18,683 And he gives me a list of things that I have to do. 1126 01:08:18,683 --> 01:08:21,353 Lunges, singing, pushups, sit-ups. 1127 01:08:22,896 --> 01:08:25,732 The conversation ended up taking a turn 1128 01:08:25,732 --> 01:08:27,651 kind of for the worst. 1129 01:08:27,651 --> 01:08:30,237 He started going into 1130 01:08:30,237 --> 01:08:33,782 his sexual history with past contestants, 1131 01:08:33,782 --> 01:08:36,159 talking about how he liked 1132 01:08:36,159 --> 01:08:38,745 a very competitive, athletic girl, 1133 01:08:38,745 --> 01:08:42,666 but he wants a woman that's gonna submit to him when it comes to 1134 01:08:43,583 --> 01:08:46,419 being aggressive during sex. 1135 01:08:47,212 --> 01:08:49,965 In that moment, I was feeling very nervous. 1136 01:08:51,049 --> 01:08:54,511 Like, I'm just there. I'm barely participating in conversation, 1137 01:08:54,511 --> 01:08:56,596 because I don't really know what to say. 1138 01:08:56,596 --> 01:08:59,349 I don't wanna give any leading responses 1139 01:08:59,349 --> 01:09:01,726 because I just wanted to go through the manor. 1140 01:09:01,726 --> 01:09:05,772 I was tired. I was exhausted. I was willing to listen to him, 1141 01:09:05,772 --> 01:09:08,900 but I-I was also scared that 1142 01:09:08,900 --> 01:09:10,485 if I'm propositioned, 1143 01:09:10,485 --> 01:09:13,738 I'm not gonna be able to have this experience if I decline. 1144 01:09:14,364 --> 01:09:16,324 And I was scared to what happens next. 1145 01:09:16,324 --> 01:09:19,286 Wh-Whatever I do, and all of this is ripped from me, 1146 01:09:19,286 --> 01:09:22,497 you know, what kind of monster is he gonna make me out to be? 1147 01:09:22,497 --> 01:09:24,082 If this is perfectly fine, 1148 01:09:24,082 --> 01:09:26,668 and he's done it with all these other contestants, 1149 01:09:26,668 --> 01:09:29,212 is everybody gonna make me a laughingstock? 1150 01:09:29,212 --> 01:09:31,673 You know, what's gonna happen? 1151 01:09:32,382 --> 01:09:34,467 So, he ends up leaving the room, 1152 01:09:34,467 --> 01:09:36,845 and I stay up doing these lives. 1153 01:09:36,845 --> 01:09:39,848 By the time my tour starts, um, it's-- 1154 01:09:39,848 --> 01:09:42,851 I'll be up for 26 hours. 1155 01:09:42,851 --> 01:09:44,603 Happy Sunday. 1156 01:09:46,104 --> 01:09:49,941 That's right. Happy Sunday, Michelle. Happy Sunday. 1157 01:09:53,528 --> 01:09:55,530 Gotta keep my eyes on the road, so... 1158 01:09:57,949 --> 01:09:59,826 I do have someone I want you to see. 1159 01:10:02,412 --> 01:10:05,040 My brain was like mashed potatoes 1160 01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,125 when he came and picked me up, 1161 01:10:07,125 --> 01:10:09,586 and we headed out 1162 01:10:09,586 --> 01:10:11,922 to go for my next tour. 1163 01:10:11,922 --> 01:10:14,049 It's just me and Russ on this tour. 1164 01:10:14,049 --> 01:10:16,134 Go ahead and talk to 'em. 1165 01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:20,972 - Alright, everyone. - She's not near as bubbly 1166 01:10:20,972 --> 01:10:22,307 as she normally is. 1167 01:10:22,307 --> 01:10:23,475 - I'm tired. - Tired. 1168 01:10:25,435 --> 01:10:27,020 He had no helpers. 1169 01:10:33,652 --> 01:10:36,029 We have our, our young lady here. 1170 01:10:37,239 --> 01:10:39,950 Ms. Everly is doing awesome. 1171 01:10:41,076 --> 01:10:43,078 Killing it today. Killing it. 1172 01:10:46,039 --> 01:10:47,958 Why don't you come on out? 1173 01:10:52,420 --> 01:10:54,881 Okay, that's good right there. Stay where you are. 1174 01:10:54,881 --> 01:10:56,633 Through the bamboo run 1175 01:10:56,633 --> 01:10:59,594 is when he started, like, whispering in my ear 1176 01:10:59,594 --> 01:11:02,138 and, like, complimenting my neck, 1177 01:11:02,138 --> 01:11:05,725 and kind of grabbing my neck and being sexual. 1178 01:11:05,725 --> 01:11:08,520 You know what you need? You need a little color. 1179 01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:09,938 Would you like a little color? 1180 01:11:12,023 --> 01:11:13,608 Tilt your head back. 1181 01:11:15,610 --> 01:11:18,822 But, in that moment, I'm like, "Oh, this is part of the tour. 1182 01:11:18,822 --> 01:11:20,907 You know, this is part of what he does." 1183 01:11:22,867 --> 01:11:24,411 I was dead to the world. 1184 01:11:24,411 --> 01:11:27,706 By the end of it, I was over 30 hours no sleep. 1185 01:11:27,706 --> 01:11:29,708 I was beyond sleep deprived. 1186 01:11:29,708 --> 01:11:32,752 You feel like a noodle, don't ya? How's your brain? 1187 01:11:32,752 --> 01:11:34,963 Seriously, how's your brain feel right now? 1188 01:11:34,963 --> 01:11:37,966 All kinds of messed up 1189 01:11:37,966 --> 01:11:39,593 in every direction possible. 1190 01:11:39,593 --> 01:11:41,678 This is gonna suck. 1191 01:11:51,146 --> 01:11:54,024 I remember at that point, I had fell asleep, 1192 01:11:54,024 --> 01:11:57,861 and he told me it was fine, "Go to sleep." He'd covered me up with towels. 1193 01:12:00,488 --> 01:12:02,490 Come on, everybody. Come on in. 1194 01:12:04,743 --> 01:12:06,328 Talkin' quiet because 1195 01:12:07,495 --> 01:12:10,790 tryin' to get Ms. Everly to go to sleep. 1196 01:12:11,249 --> 01:12:13,168 Well, 1197 01:12:13,168 --> 01:12:15,212 sometime after the tour, 1198 01:12:15,212 --> 01:12:17,672 and I-I'm gonna fast forward for a moment 1199 01:12:17,672 --> 01:12:21,593 because I asked him how the footage went. 1200 01:12:22,344 --> 01:12:24,721 And he was like, "Well, there was this one time 1201 01:12:24,721 --> 01:12:27,349 that I didn't get the footage I really wish I had." 1202 01:12:37,150 --> 01:12:39,653 What happened? What did he do when I was asleep? 1203 01:12:39,653 --> 01:12:41,196 Because he never answered me. 1204 01:12:41,196 --> 01:12:43,907 And I think I deserve the right to know. 1205 01:12:43,907 --> 01:12:46,785 Like, what did he mean? What footage did he miss? 1206 01:12:49,454 --> 01:12:53,208 That's always going to haunt me. I will question myself that 1207 01:12:54,793 --> 01:12:56,711 to the day I die. 1208 01:12:56,711 --> 01:12:58,421 'Cause I don't want, 1209 01:12:58,421 --> 01:13:01,299 and I never have wanted, to do anything with Russ. 1210 01:13:03,260 --> 01:13:06,638 And it-- just the fact that that may have been a possibility, 1211 01:13:06,638 --> 01:13:08,223 disgusts me. 1212 01:13:08,223 --> 01:13:11,518 He is a cruel, fucking disgusting person. 1213 01:13:16,314 --> 01:13:18,775 Good. Put your head back a little bit. 1214 01:13:19,776 --> 01:13:21,319 Enjoy that sun while you can. 1215 01:13:23,029 --> 01:13:25,532 - You got it right in there good? - Mm-hmm. 1216 01:13:27,492 --> 01:13:31,538 There's always gonna be that doubt. There's always gonna be that doubt. 1217 01:13:35,667 --> 01:13:38,169 We have a tired little puppy here. 1218 01:13:49,431 --> 01:13:52,267 Everything finally adds up. 1219 01:13:52,267 --> 01:13:55,395 It adds up that Russ is just 1220 01:13:55,395 --> 01:13:59,441 a narcissistic, manipulative piece of fuck. 1221 01:14:01,735 --> 01:14:04,738 Don't learn the hard way, like we have. 1222 01:14:14,122 --> 01:14:18,126 I love getting scared. I wanna populate our earth with more art 1223 01:14:18,126 --> 01:14:20,879 and make it horror. You know what? 1224 01:14:20,879 --> 01:14:23,256 Keep doing it, you know? 'Cause eventually, 1225 01:14:23,256 --> 01:14:26,384 this could replace movies for some people, and it does now. 1226 01:14:30,597 --> 01:14:32,599 I wanted to find another haunt 1227 01:14:32,599 --> 01:14:34,935 because I wanted to fill that void. 1228 01:14:34,935 --> 01:14:37,812 I wanted to find something that can help me cope, 1229 01:14:37,812 --> 01:14:40,732 to give me that reminder, "Hey, if you went through this, 1230 01:14:40,732 --> 01:14:42,275 you can go through anything." 1231 01:14:42,275 --> 01:14:46,029 Because the purpose isn't to sexually molest people. 1232 01:14:46,029 --> 01:14:49,157 Th-The purpose is not to do anything untoward to somebody 1233 01:14:49,157 --> 01:14:52,327 or to make them a victim. It's to make you grow. 1234 01:14:52,327 --> 01:14:55,747 That little girl, that itch, is still very much inside of me. 1235 01:14:55,747 --> 01:14:58,416 I've just had to not scratch the itch for a while, 1236 01:14:58,416 --> 01:15:00,085 to recover from the manor. 1237 01:15:09,010 --> 01:15:11,638 I'm telling you. You wanna do somethin' 1238 01:15:11,638 --> 01:15:13,557 taboo and out there? 1239 01:15:14,933 --> 01:15:16,768 There's places that'll help you. 1240 01:15:18,937 --> 01:15:21,273 Tell us what you're about to go do. 1241 01:15:21,273 --> 01:15:24,109 I'm about to go do Miasma. 1242 01:15:24,484 --> 01:15:26,987 - I'm at the fog machine. 1243 01:15:29,155 --> 01:15:31,449 Give it a longer pause between that. 1244 01:15:31,449 --> 01:15:35,495 Diversity is really the norm. People have very diverse genetic makeups, 1245 01:15:35,495 --> 01:15:37,831 people want different things, 1246 01:15:37,831 --> 01:15:40,208 people have different psychological traits. 1247 01:15:40,208 --> 01:15:42,043 So, we need to recognize 1248 01:15:42,043 --> 01:15:45,046 that there are people who need challenges, 1249 01:15:45,046 --> 01:15:47,674 they need risk, they need sensation. 1250 01:15:47,674 --> 01:15:50,677 And we need to make sure that those spaces are available, 1251 01:15:50,677 --> 01:15:54,306 so people can get what they need within the bounds of the law. 1252 01:16:19,456 --> 01:16:21,833 Turn around, turn around. 1253 01:16:22,918 --> 01:16:24,336 Sign when you're ready. 1254 01:16:29,466 --> 01:16:32,344 When this bell rings, you're no longer Melissa. 1255 01:16:32,344 --> 01:16:34,262 You become Jay. Do you understand? 1256 01:16:35,347 --> 01:16:38,016 - Who do you become when this bell rings? - Jay. 1257 01:16:38,016 --> 01:16:40,644 - What is the safety word? - Safety. 1258 01:16:40,644 --> 01:16:44,189 Do you understand you can say this at any time for any reason, 1259 01:16:44,189 --> 01:16:46,441 - your show will stop? - Yes. 1260 01:16:46,441 --> 01:16:49,945 - What happens when this rings? - I'm Jay. 1261 01:16:51,738 --> 01:16:53,698 Fucking run, Jay! Keep going! 1262 01:16:56,910 --> 01:16:59,913 Follow it, follow it! Follow it forward. 1263 01:17:41,329 --> 01:17:44,749 Where's the cliff edge, right? 1264 01:17:44,749 --> 01:17:47,460 - Or have I already gone over it? 1265 01:17:49,087 --> 01:17:53,008 No. No. Stay down. Stay down. Stay down, stay down. 1266 01:17:53,008 --> 01:17:56,094 - Hey. Hey, you okay? 1267 01:17:56,094 --> 01:17:59,014 - You okay? - [panting] Yeah. 1268 01:17:59,014 --> 01:18:01,516 - Do you wanna keep going? - Yes. 1269 01:18:01,516 --> 01:18:04,102 Look at these scars. I'm bleeding. 1270 01:18:05,103 --> 01:18:07,397 My heart was beating through my chest. 1271 01:18:08,982 --> 01:18:10,650 It's freakin' awesome. 1272 01:18:10,650 --> 01:18:13,153 What the fuck is wrong with you?! 1273 01:18:14,487 --> 01:18:17,365 - Tell her you fuckin' hate her. 1274 01:18:17,365 --> 01:18:20,619 - I fucking hate you! - Tell her you wish she was dead. 1275 01:18:20,619 --> 01:18:23,288 - I wish you were dead! - Scream it! 1276 01:18:30,420 --> 01:18:33,381 Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! 1277 01:18:33,381 --> 01:18:36,426 Dead! Dead! Dead! 1278 01:18:36,426 --> 01:18:40,222 Who are you?! Who the fuck are you?! Who the fuck are you?! 1279 01:18:40,222 --> 01:18:42,182 Answer, answer! Answer! Answer me! 1280 01:18:42,182 --> 01:18:45,518 I already have an anxiety brain that can kind of make up scenarios. 1281 01:18:45,518 --> 01:18:48,647 So, if someone makes up a scenario that's crazier than me, 1282 01:18:48,647 --> 01:18:50,357 - I, like, give them props for it. 1283 01:18:57,781 --> 01:19:01,785 - [chanting] Jay, Jay, Jay. 1284 01:19:01,785 --> 01:19:03,411 Fuck! 1285 01:19:03,411 --> 01:19:06,289 - Who are you supposed to be? - Jay. 1286 01:19:06,289 --> 01:19:08,416 - Louder. - Jay! 1287 01:19:08,416 --> 01:19:10,210 - Scream it! - Jay! 1288 01:19:10,210 --> 01:19:12,003 - One more time! - Jay! 1289 01:19:12,003 --> 01:19:15,257 - Can't fucking hear you! 1290 01:19:15,257 --> 01:19:18,051 - Who the fuck are you supposed to be?! - Jay! 1291 01:19:28,853 --> 01:19:32,357 - Who do you wanna be? - Me. I wanna be me. 1292 01:19:57,090 --> 01:19:59,968 It's very cathartic, right? In there, it's still-- 1293 01:19:59,968 --> 01:20:02,512 There's a lot of processing that's still goin' on, right? 1294 01:20:02,512 --> 01:20:05,390 - Of course. - Like, I've done this shit before, 1295 01:20:05,390 --> 01:20:07,642 and, you know, you're out of it in 15, 20 minutes 1296 01:20:07,642 --> 01:20:09,185 once you get back to the real world, 1297 01:20:09,185 --> 01:20:11,855 but this is gonna stay with me for a little while, I think. 1298 01:20:11,855 --> 01:20:14,691 Like, I don't know-- I don't know how to-- 1299 01:20:14,691 --> 01:20:17,527 I don't know how to describe the experience. 1300 01:20:19,571 --> 01:20:23,241 There is actually a great emotional release 1301 01:20:23,241 --> 01:20:25,535 after some type of self-harm behavior. 1302 01:20:28,914 --> 01:20:31,583 On one level, it exhausts us. 1303 01:20:31,583 --> 01:20:35,086 Then, it starts to promote this addiction-like dopamine pathway 1304 01:20:35,086 --> 01:20:36,796 that we seek out over and over. 1305 01:20:36,796 --> 01:20:40,050 - Congratulations. - Fuck! Fuck! 1306 01:20:40,050 --> 01:20:42,677 That was one hell of a show. 1307 01:20:42,677 --> 01:20:46,014 - Are you okay? Are you okay? - Thank you so much. 1308 01:20:46,014 --> 01:20:48,516 It meant the world to me. 1309 01:20:50,769 --> 01:20:52,687 That's some great news. 1310 01:20:52,687 --> 01:20:54,814 Thank you so much, Justin. 1311 01:20:54,814 --> 01:20:56,566 That was fucking-- 1312 01:20:56,566 --> 01:20:58,568 Thank you, but I'm glad you're okay. 1313 01:20:58,568 --> 01:21:00,320 I'm glad you got something out of it. 1314 01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:02,280 - Thank you. - You did awesome. 1315 01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:04,908 - It's a rough show, and you did so good. - Yeah. 1316 01:21:04,908 --> 01:21:07,410 - It's not-- - No, no. 1317 01:21:07,410 --> 01:21:10,121 - And you did awesome. - Thank you. 1318 01:21:10,121 --> 01:21:13,083 Um, so right now, you can just take a breath. 1319 01:21:24,302 --> 01:21:28,098 Russ... is damaged himself. 1320 01:21:28,098 --> 01:21:31,643 And he has some inner demons or trauma 1321 01:21:31,643 --> 01:21:35,397 that he needs to get help with, and I hope he does. 1322 01:21:35,397 --> 01:21:38,441 He is a person who aspired to be an entertainer 1323 01:21:38,441 --> 01:21:41,861 and became the torturer, the tormentor. 1324 01:21:41,861 --> 01:21:45,073 I was dragged across asphalt 1325 01:21:45,073 --> 01:21:47,534 in a parking lot... 1326 01:21:47,534 --> 01:21:49,286 after my tour was already over! 1327 01:21:49,286 --> 01:21:52,163 None of you even know what you're talkin' about. 1328 01:21:52,163 --> 01:21:55,500 Russ isn't a torturer, okay? He's a showman. 1329 01:21:55,500 --> 01:21:58,253 People are stupid. That's what you sign up for. 1330 01:21:58,253 --> 01:22:00,839 It's his own little narcissism factory, 1331 01:22:00,839 --> 01:22:04,134 that people just come to, to-to-to-to help him feed on it. 1332 01:22:04,134 --> 01:22:07,679 And they're still very much active groups on Facebook. 1333 01:22:07,679 --> 01:22:09,264 It's just, you're drinking the Kool-Aid. 1334 01:22:09,264 --> 01:22:11,933 You're believing what he says. You're lapping it up. 1335 01:22:11,933 --> 01:22:14,352 Russ, I think you're a good man. 1336 01:22:14,352 --> 01:22:17,814 Just a little misunderstood by some people. 1337 01:22:17,814 --> 01:22:20,191 If people wanna do it, I'm not gonna stop 'em, 1338 01:22:20,191 --> 01:22:22,861 but it's not gonna shock me if someone dies one day, 1339 01:22:22,861 --> 01:22:24,738 and Russ goes to jail because of it. 1340 01:22:24,738 --> 01:22:27,532 - What would you like 1341 01:22:27,532 --> 01:22:31,119 the takeaway to be from your participation in this? 1342 01:22:31,119 --> 01:22:32,704 That 1343 01:22:33,788 --> 01:22:35,165 immersive haunts are okay, 1344 01:22:35,165 --> 01:22:37,167 even if it seems crazy and weird. 1345 01:22:39,461 --> 01:22:42,714 You can have your kinks, and that's perfectly fine. 1346 01:22:42,714 --> 01:22:46,051 But don't invite people into your kinks without them knowing 1347 01:22:46,051 --> 01:22:48,511 that that's exactly what they're going to be in. 1348 01:22:48,511 --> 01:22:51,556 If I knew I was getting into Russ's fantasy world 1349 01:22:51,556 --> 01:22:54,142 and living out whatever fantasies he wanted to see, 1350 01:22:54,142 --> 01:22:57,354 I probably would've felt different about it. But I was supposed to be 1351 01:22:57,354 --> 01:23:00,232 in a survive my own horror experience, 1352 01:23:00,232 --> 01:23:04,277 not survive, like, Russ McKamey's fantasy experience. 1353 01:23:05,111 --> 01:23:08,156 Am I still doing tours? Of course! 1354 01:23:08,156 --> 01:23:11,284 I have a tour this weekend! 1355 01:23:11,284 --> 01:23:13,828 I have a heart murmur I need to get taken care of. 1356 01:23:13,828 --> 01:23:17,874 I have surgery in about a month. If I, if I can get medically cleared, 1357 01:23:17,874 --> 01:23:21,545 um, hopefully, fingers crossed, in six months, I'll be up for a tour. 1358 01:23:21,545 --> 01:23:24,714 My name is Shelby. I'm from Scotland. 1359 01:23:24,714 --> 01:23:26,466 I work in the dental field. 1360 01:23:26,466 --> 01:23:28,760 I'm a professional nurse. 1361 01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:32,013 I hold a very high position in a company. 1362 01:23:32,013 --> 01:23:35,767 I would love to go visit Russ, and I would love to hang out with him. 1363 01:23:35,767 --> 01:23:39,104 I'd love to take a tour at some point when I can get to the South. 1364 01:23:39,104 --> 01:23:42,357 I wanna take the tour because I love the survival horror movie. 1365 01:23:42,357 --> 01:23:45,026 I need to challenge myself a little bit more, 1366 01:23:45,026 --> 01:23:47,404 and this would be the ultimate challenge. 1367 01:23:47,404 --> 01:23:51,032 If I were to be put in that situation, 1368 01:23:51,032 --> 01:23:53,243 I would be able to survive. 1369 01:23:53,243 --> 01:23:56,830 I could get out of that. That would never happen to me. 1370 01:23:56,830 --> 01:23:58,832 McKamey Manor, I'm coming for you. 1371 01:23:58,832 --> 01:24:02,460 Drown me, beat me, torture me. 1372 01:24:02,460 --> 01:24:05,839 I'm here for all of it. And my kids are gonna watch all of it. 1373 01:24:05,839 --> 01:24:09,885 The manor is safe, it's fun, 1374 01:24:09,885 --> 01:24:13,805 and it will take you to your limit. 1375 01:24:35,535 --> 01:24:37,537 No. 1376 01:26:10,463 --> 01:26:14,968 ♪ Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum ♪ 1377 01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:20,265 ♪ Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum ♪ 1378 01:26:21,182 --> 01:26:25,687 ♪ Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum ♪ 1379 01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:30,108 ♪ Bum bum bum ba-ah ♪