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- McKamey Manor - Haunted Experience, or Vaguely Legal Torture?
This week I delve into the controversial and extreme haunted attraction known as McKamey Manor, an extreme haunted house attraction that has sparked intense debate and controversy.
Located in Summertown, Tennessee, McKamey Manor is not your typical haunted house attraction. It bills itself as an extreme haunt experience that challenges its participants physically and mentally. The experience is not for the faint of heart; it involves extreme simulations of torture, confinement, and other traumas. What I’m trying to say is, you have to have at least one loose screw to want to participate.
Participants must sign a 40-page waiver, undergo a background check, and pass a physical and mental exam before being allowed to take the tour. Once inside, participants are subjected to a grueling, hours-long experience that includes simulated drowning, extreme temperatures, and physical and psychological torture. The attraction has garnered significant criticism, with some describing it as a form of torture and exploitation. The owner, Russ McKamey, has defended the experience as a form of "survival horror" that pushes participants to their limits, claiming that no one has completed the experience to this day.
However, many former participants have spoken out against the attraction, describing their experiences as traumatic and violating. Some have accused McKamey of manipulating and gaslighting participants and have criticized the attraction's lack of transparency and oversight.
Exploring the complex issues surrounding McKamey Manor, including the ethics of extreme haunt experiences, the role of consent, and the legal and regulatory challenges posed by extreme attractions- this episode will force you to ask yourself, “how far is too far?”
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www.fthatpod.com
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Thank you to this week’s sources:
Dark Tourist
Episode 8: Back in the USA
Russ posts several videos on the website and YouTube page on various tours, but watch with care
Gabss – An early participant of McKamey Manor
McKamey Manor Part 2
McKamey Manor Waiver
*Old waiver from when he was operating in California
Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists
Reddit r/mckameymanor
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This week, I explore the life of Elizabeth Bathory, the infamous Hungarian countess who is widely considered to be history's most notorious female serial killer. The legend surrounding Elizabeth, aka Countess Dracula, or The Blood Countess, remains that she was a bloodthirsty killer who tortured and murdered hundreds of young girls (mainly peasants), bathing in their blood in the belief that it would keep her young and beautiful. While it is impossible to know the exact number of The Blood Countess' victims, it is estimated that she may have been responsible for the deaths of up to 650 girls. Elizabeth Bathory remains one of the most intriguing and terrifying figures in history, a woman whose legend has endured for centuries. While the exact truth of her crimes may never be known, the impact she had on history is undeniable. Her story is a reminder of the darkest aspects of human nature and the power of legend to shape our understanding of the past.
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Thank you to this week’s sources:
Infamous Lady The True Story of Countess Erzsebet Báthory
Kimberly L. Craft
The Blood Countess: The Life and Crimes of Elizabeth Bathory
Valentine Penrose
The Legend of Elizabeth Bathory: Blood Bath
Discovery Channel
Elizabeth Bathory: The Blood Countess
Drea Knufken, All That's Interesting, 2019.
The True Story of Elizabeth Bathory: History's Most Prolific Female Serial Killer
Natasha Ishak, The Lineup, 2020
The Woman Who Killed for Beauty
Daisy Dunn, BBC, 2019
Reinventing the 'Blood Countess': Bathory in Popular Culture
Anna Kornbluh, Journal of Dracula Studies, 2008.
The Countess and the Feminists
Victoria Nelson, The New York Times, 1994
Countess Elizabeth Bathory: A Female Dracula?
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, History.com, 2019
The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory, Vampire or Victim?
Anne McDonnell, Smithsonian Magazine, 2012
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When we get divorced, it is overwhelming as hell. Imagine if you had to go through all of that AND get divorced in religious court as well. Imagine if your civil divorce didn’t really matter if your religious divorce wasn’t valid. That is a reality for a lot of women in the Orthodox Jewish Community when their husbands refuse to grant them a get, the religious document needed for divorce according to Jewish Religious Law.
Enter Rabbi Mendel Epstein, aka “The Prodfather.” Leader of the New York Divorce Coercion Gang – a group of rabbis and other Jewish men that kidnapped, assaulted and tortured men that refused to give their wives a get using cattle prods, acid, and other scary objects that nobody, including angry Rabbis, should be wielding.
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Netflix documentary mentioned in the episode: One of Us
Thank you to this week's sources:
Aranoff,S., Haut, R. (2015).
The wed-locked agunot: Orthodox jewish women chained to dead marriages.
McFarland.
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey
Two Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Sentenced To Prison For Conspiring To Kidnap Jewish Husbands, Force Them To Consent To Religious Divorces
www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-orthodox-jewish-rabbis-sentenced-prison-conspiring-kidnap-jewish-husbands-force-them
Jewish Divorce Basics: What Is a ‘Get’? https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/557906/jewish/Divorce-Basics.htm
Kariyeva, M. (2018). Chained against her will: What a get means for women under jewish law.
Touro Law Review
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34
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3).
Outline of the Beth Din Divorce Proceedings
Radzyner, A. (2018). Jewish law, state, and social reality: prenuptial agreement for the prevention of divorce refusal in israel and the united states.
Journal of Law and Religion, 33(1),
61-88.
Raise Your Hand if You’re a Kohen https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/762109/jewish/Raise-Your-Hand-If-Youre-A-Kohen.htm
Shaer, M. (2014). The orthodox hit squad.
GQ.
United States District Court District of New Jersey
Criminal Complaint
United States of America v.
Mendel Epstein,
Martin Wolmark,
Ariel Potash and
FNU LNU aka “Yaakov”
United States District Court District of New Jersey
United States of America v.
Mendel Epstein,
Jay Goldstein,
David Aryeh Epstein and
Binyamin Stimler
Decided Dec 11, 2015
What Is a Beit Din?
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3582308/jewish/What-Is-a-Beit-Din.htm
Who Are the Israelites?
Who Were the Levites?
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy36 min - What Happened to Brandon Embry? Part ThreeAs Sarah delves deeper into Cassandra’s history, particularly into her past relationships, she discovers a pattern of financial abuse, and something more sinister – deliberate and repeated poisoning.
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Thank you to this week's sources:
Sarah’s pages for Brandon:
I HIGHLY recommend you like/follow. Sarah is such an amazing record keeper and is so thorough in investigating what happened to Brandon. Sarah is 100 times more of a detective than the “detective” that closed her son’s case.
Instagram - @brandons.voice
TikTok - @justiceforbrandonembry
Facebook - Brandon’s Voice – The Murder and Coverup of Brandon Embry
Sign the petition:
https://www.change.org/p/asheboro-police-department-to-get-brandon-embry-s-case-reopened
Documentation Provided by Sarah:
Asheboro Police Department Incident Report
September 12th, 2019
Asheboro Police Department Records Request (88 pages)
Crime scene photos
Text exchanges between Sarah and Brandon
Facebook Messenger exchanges between Sarah and Cassandra
Hotel photos - Detroit work trip
Generation Why Podcast Episode 433 – Brandon Embry
John Philpin
https://johnphilpin.com/
Murder She Told Podcast
The Mysterious Death of Brandon Embry Part 1 – 3
Central Maine Former Augusta man to serve 60 years for raping two boys https://www.centralmaine.com/2016/02/24/state-wants-65-year-sentence-for-augusta-man-convicted-of-child-rape/
WMTW News Maine man convicted of killing informant sentenced https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-man-convicted-of-killing-informant-sentenced/3377225
CDC - Ethylene Glycol: Systemic Agent
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750031.html
Hovda, K. E., Julsrud, J., ØvrebØ, S., BrØrs, O., & Jacobsen, D. (2011). Studies on ethylene glycol poisoning: One patient -- 154 admissions. Clinical Toxicology (15563650), 49(6), 478–484. https://doi-org.scsu.idm.oclc.org/10.3109/15563650.2011.590140
Corr, P., & Szólics, M. (2012). Neuroimaging findings in acute ethylene glycol poisoning. Journal of Medical Imaging & Radiation Oncology, 56(4), 442–444. https://doi-org.scsu.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/j.1754-9485.2012.02362.x
Prinz, J., Böll, B., von Bergwelt-Baildon, M., Burst, V., Becker, J. U., Carvalho-Fiel, D., Shimabukuro-Vornhagen, A., & Kochanek, M. (2019). [Antifreeze poisoning : The case of a patient with repeated ethylene glycol poisoning]. Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin, 114(2), 159–163. https://doi-org.scsu.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s00063-018-0439-5
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/f-k-that--5741034/support.45 min - What Happened to Brandon Embry? Part TwoAfter Asheboro Police Department failed to properly investigate the mysterious death of Brandon Embry, his mother, Sarah, takes it into her own hands. Days after her son’s death, a mysterious woman named Cassandra reaches out to Brandon’s sister-in-law, sending a long-winded, and strange message.
Sarah reaches out to Cassandra immediately following, and establishes a relationship with Cassandra, attempting to piece together the missing details of Brandon’s last few days alive. However, Sarah begins to uncover the disturbing truth amongst Cassandra’s numerous lies. Domestic violence, check theft, and dangerous obsessions with felons – Sarah discovered who Cassandra really is, and began to work tirelessly to prove her guilt in Brandon’s case.
If you, or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, there are safe, free, and confidential resources available.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1 (800) 799-7233SMS: Text START to 88788
Identifying abuse:https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/
Supporting others:https://www.thehotline.org/support-others/
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Thank you to this week's sources:
Documentation Provided by Sarah:
Asheboro Police Department Incident Report
September 12th, 2019
Asheboro Police Department Records Request (88 pages)
Crime scene photos
Text exchanges between Sarah and Brandon
Facebook Messenger exchanges between Sarah and Cassandra
Audio clips and phone calls
Hotel photos - Detroit work trip
Generation Why Podcast Episode 433
Brandon Embry
Murder She Told Podcast
The Mysterious Death of Brandon Embry Part 1 – 3
Central Maine Former Augusta man to serve 60 years for raping two boys https://www.centralmaine.com/2016/02/24/state-wants-65-year-sentence-for-augusta-man-convicted-of-child-rape/
WMTW News Maine man convicted of killing informant sentenced https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-man-convicted-of-killing-informant-sentenced/3377225
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48 min - What Happened to Brandon Embry? Part OneBrandon Embry was a bright, healthy, 32-year-old man with nothing but opportunity ahead of him. After moving to Asheboro, North Carolina from Washington to be closer to his family in August of 2018, Brandon’s future seemed bright. Why wouldn’t it?
In February of 2019, a bizarre and inexplicable series of health-related events began to plague Brandon. Brandon was sent home from work on a day he was feeling ill and was asked to take a drug test due to his “odd” behavior. Brandon obliged but was transported at the McDonalds he stopped at on the way for breakfast prior to getting the drug screen. The cause? Altered mental status, nausea, vomiting, and severe abdominal pain.
Not long after Brandon is admitted into the emergency department, he goes into respiratory failure and becomes unresponsive. This was just the first of several bizarre health complications that Brandon endured leading up to his passing shortly after his 33rd birthday.
While Asheboro Police Department was quick to close his case, his incredible family had other plans, with his mother, Sarah making it her goal to uncover the truth of what happened to her son, and all of the signs point to a woman who is sketchy as hell. I purposely left you hanging for part two, where Sarah and I will dive into the “mysterious” woman.
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Thank you to this week's sources:
Generation Why Podcast Episode 433 – Brandon Embry
Documentation Provided by Sarah:
Asheboro Police Department Incident Report September 12th, 2019
Asheboro Police Department Records Request (88 pages)
Crime scene photos
Text exchanges between Sarah and Brandon Hotel photos - Detroit work trip
Sarah’s pages for Brandon:
I HIGHLY recommend you like/follow. Sarah is such an amazing record keeper and is so thorough in investigating what happened to Brandon. Sarah is 100 times more of a detective than the “detective” that closed her son’s case.
Instagram - @brandons.voice
TikTok - @justiceforbrandonembry
Facebook - Brandon’s Voice – The Murder and Coverup of Brandon Embry
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/f-k-that--5741034/support.45 min - The Murders of Tamela Gardner and Gabriel GabrielliTammy Gardner, a loving mother of two, was murdered in her sleep alongside Gabriel Gabrielli, a father of five. After construction workers found Tammy’s partially burned van in a park, New Castle County Police Department uncovered the horrific truth of what happened to the missing pair in her home.
Evidence quickly pointed to Clifford Wright, Tammy’s recent ex-boyfriend - a man with an extensive criminal record, and history of extreme violence towards women.
If you, or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, there are safe, free, and confidential resources available.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1 (800) 799-7233SMS: Text START to 88788
Identifying abuse:https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/
Supporting others:https://www.thehotline.org/support-others/
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Thank you to this week's sources:
Clifford W. Wright v. State of Delaware, 2008.
Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence. (n.d.) National statistics about domestic violence. https://www.ctcadv.org/information-about-domestic-violence/national-statistics/
Inmate Aid. Inmate profiles, Clifford W. Wright.
www.inmateaid.com/inmate-profiles/clifford-wright-00485527
State of Delaware v. Clifford W. Wright, 2009.
State of Delaware v. Clifford W. Wright, March 2010.
State of Delaware v. Clifford W. Wright, July 2010.
State of Delaware v. Clifford W. Wright, 2015.
Strickland, 466 U.S. at 688, 694.
Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(i).
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Alex went missing on the night of February 3rd, 2021. On February 4th, after realizing he was gone, and not at his girlfriend's (which he normally was), his mother Jennifer called 911. It isn't until the 9th... let me repeat that, THE 9TH, that Alex was found.
Alex's death was ruled as a suicide, but I implore you to dig deep, and ask yourself, "do I really think this is a suicide?"
I don't, and I hope you don't either. Get mad, because I am fucking PISSED.
Please consider signing Jennifer’s petition
Justice for Alex VanDalsen
https://gofund.me/39a51342
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As always, thank you to F**k That’s wonderful sources!
Adams, S. H., Schaub, J. P., Nagata, J. M., Park, M. J., Brindis, C. D., & Irwin, C. E., Jr (2022). Young Adult Anxiety or Depressive Symptoms and Mental Health Service Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 70(6), 985–988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.02.023
Claridge, J. (n.d.) Entrance and exit wounds. https://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/entrance-and-exit-wounds.html
Documents obtained from Jennifer VanDalsen:
Tippancoe County
Incident Report 2021TC00580
Including supplemental narratives 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lafayette Police Department
Incident Report 47901
Indiana Forensic & Surgical Pathology
Final Report
Body Camera Footage
Officer Burton, Cooney, Daubenmier, Landis, Earnest
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41 min - The Murder of JoAnn Breton and Robert Breton Jr.
Hi! I switched host platforms and my older episodes got deleted in the process, so this is a re-release of episode 15 which initially aired on 11/14/22.
On December 13th, 1987, JoAnn Breton and her son Robert Breton Jr. were brutally murdered by Robert Breton Sr., Robert’s father, and JoAnn’s ex-husband. This week we discuss their story, and Robert’s troubled past.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
CT Safe Connect: 888-774-2900
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Thank you to this week's sources:
Associated Press. (2017). Connecticut court upholds convictions of ex-death-row inmate.
Burriesci, J. (2001, June). Summary of crimes committed by death row inmates. OLR Research Report.
Campbell, R. (2012, January). Waiting on death row: Torrington man may see repeal of death penalty before time is up. New Haven Register.
Supreme Court of Connecticut. STATE of Connecticut, v. Robert J. BRETON, Sr. No. 15876. Decided: June 24, 2003
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy50 min - The Death of Anneliese Michel (The True Story of the Exorcism of Emily Rose)This week we discuss the case that was the inspiration for the movies The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Requiem, and Anneliese the Exorcist Tapes.Anneliese Michel was a devout Roman Catholic from Bavaria that began experiencing seizures, and hallucinations. After seeing several specialists and being diagnosed with epilepsy, her symptoms worsened in 1975. Anneliese began refusing to eat or drink, ate bugs, and developed an intense aversion to any religious items.
Between 1975 to 1976, Anneliese underwent 67 exorcisms conducted by Father Alt and Father Renz, who believed she was possessed. Anneliese and her family believed the same, and Anneliese began praying rigorously to save herself. On July 1st, 1976, Anneliese died from dehydration, starvation, and physical exertion, leading to four individuals getting charged with negligent homicide.
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Thank you to this week's sources:
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA.
Anneliese Michel. (2022, October 15). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel#Trial
Duffy, J. (2011). Lessons learned: The Anneliese Michel exorcism: the implementation of a safe and thorough examination, determination, and exorcism of demonic possession. Independently published.
Getler, M. (1978, April 21). Cries of a Woman Possessed. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/04/21/cries-of-a-woman-possessed/94bf2fd3-8e64-482d-869d-1f929851ca8f/
Leblanc, L. (2019) Anneliese Michel A True Story of a Case of Demonic Possession. Wipf & Stock Publishers.Odle, J.. (2020).
Ethnography of the devil: The aftermath of possession, exorcism, and the demonic. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43173-0_10
Paoletti, G. (2021, August 12). Anneliese Michel And The Shocking Images From The Exorcism Of The Real Emily Rose.
All That’s Interesting. https://allthatsinteresting.com/anneliese-michel-exorcismPapal Infallibility. (n.d.).
In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility#Background
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