Warning: contains graphic content
This Halloween, if you were thinking about visiting a haunted house and being put through your paces, then you might want to be careful what you sign up for.
That's because there is a haunted house which is quite possibly one of the toughest experiences you could ever go through in your life, and it's called McKamey Manor.
Located in Tennessee, people who've gone through this experience have been chased by masked figures, dunked in water, locked in coffins, and covered in all manner of substances.
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It has had to move a couple of times due to the controversy surrounding the place, as it was originally based in San Diego, California, and some of the controversy centred on claims that visitors had their teeth pulled out.
One visitor, Laura Hertz, claimed she had been 'waterboarded', 'tased' and 'whipped' during her experience there.
"I still have scars of everything they did to me. I was repeatedly hit in my face, over and over and over again. Like, open-handed, as hard as a man could hit a woman in her face," she told Nashville Scene.
She claimed she had been blindfolded with duct tape and submerged underwater for so long her body started involuntarily thrashing, and alleges that she was made to dig a hole in the dirt with her bare hands and lie in it while they covered her face, giving her a straw to breathe through.
However, McKamey Manor owner Russ previously told LADbible if people actually got hurt, he'd be in prison, so it's 'all just smoke and mirrors'.
"If somebody actually pulled their tooth out, don't you think somebody would have gone and reported [it] to somebody? But it makes a good story, doesn't it? It gets people talking," he said.
"That's all part of the deal, it's all part of the controversy. But what's reality is that I can backup that that's not true, and they can't back up that it is true, because it's not."
Russ has said that nobody has ever made it through the full experience because it has been designed to be impossible to finish, though it hasn't stopped people trying with a $20,000 prize on offer for anyone who makes it to the end.
Those signing up to McKamey Manor have to sign a waiver as long as 40 pages, which The Guardian reports warns participants they could be subjected to 'drowning, electric shocks and exposure to poisonous animals'.
The waiver also warns people they might go through being 'slapped, shoved and restrained' and could suffer 'broken bones, dislocation of limbs, crushed limbs and blackouts'.
Participants also have to be filmed giving an 'exit interview'.
A petition to get the haunted house shut down has gained over 193,000 signatures, so it's a very controversial establishment.
Joe Harker