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Your hands are bound together.
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It’s pitch black, but every 10 seconds or so a flash of light reveals the masked faces of men.
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They drag you into a corner.
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You can hear the petrified screams of your friend through the wall.
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You’ve never heard him sound like that before.
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What have they done to him?
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Another flash of light reveals cockroaches scurrying all around you.
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They run up your legs and some of them get into the onesie you’ve been forced to wear.
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Suddenly a mirror is held up to your face.
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When those lights flash you see one of the guys shaving your head.
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Another flash, and a great,First let’s explain to you what we are actually talking about.
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big tarantula is crawling over your shoulder.
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The masked men then grab you and take you to another room where they push your head into freezing cold water.
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You plead for them to stop, to show you some mercy, but you’ve signed up for this, and there’s no ‘get-out’ clause.
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What we just explained to you isn’t an exaggeration.
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In fact, this haunted house experience can get much worse than that.
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It’s so bad, that if you can actually get through enough hours of it you’ll be handed $20,000.
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There’s actually a long list of thousands of people in the U.S. in the queue waiting to experience this haunted house, but we can assure you, most of those that do get the full experience regret it.
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Has anyone gone back for more?
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Has anyone ever completed the experience?
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The place we have described is called the “McKamey Manor”, and that to most people would look like any suburban house in the USA.
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But this house in a now undisclosed neighborhood in the USA, doubles as a kind of extreme attraction, or what you might call a horror survival course.
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ThinWhen we say haunted, well, it’s been called that, but regarding horror it’s less about ghosts than it is about torture.
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It’s closer to the “Saw” franchise than it is “Paranormal Activity.”gs don’t move around by themselves in the dark, if you don’t count large, burly men in masks terrifying you psychologically and even roughing you up a bit.
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We are not kidding….
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There are pages on Facebook that criticize this outfit and say it should be illegal.
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Those detractors say the Manor can cause lasting psychological damage and they state that those who do the terrifying things are sick and sadistic human beings.
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Still, you’ll find middle-aged, bored accountants and young beauticians giving McKamey Manor a go.
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They actually want to be scared out of their wits and they don’t give a hoot what some people have to say on social media.
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The experience is no joke, though, that’s for sure.You won’t even be allowed to get your foot in the door if you haven’t signed a 40-page waiver, are 21, or at least 18 and have your parent’s approval.
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You’ll need a doctor’s letter saying you are in good physical and mental shape and you’ll be screened first.
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If you don’t have any medical insurance, forget about it.
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Here are two very important clauses in that 40-page waiver: Clause 20: “Participant agrees there is no quitting unless serious physical or psychological injury is present.” Clause 25… “Participant fully understands that at many times they will be in a panic state of anxiety, in which they feel that they will drown and they may die.” That’s why it’s called a “survival horror Challenge”, maybe something our dear Challenge writer could do one day.
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After all, the only payment you have to make is some dog food.
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That’s right, a few tins of mashed mystery meat and gristle and you’re in.
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But would you really want to get in, that’s the question?
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The tour of the house lasts eight to ten hours.
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Yep, that’s possibly a good chunk of the day with a bunch of very large, seemingly angry, vengeful men.They want to terrorize the life out of you and you will believe they are for real.
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These guys have practiced the art of physical and mental torture, and while that torture might not be anything like what you saw in that movie called “Hostel”, it’s going to be bad enough to make you want to quit.
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In fact, while your average plumber and office worker have given up after only a few minutes, even cage fighters and marines have tapped out.
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There are other extreme haunted house experiences out there in the U.S., but this one has one major difference in that you don’t have a “safe word” so you can just drop out.
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Why would anyone do this, you might be wondering, besides trying to get that 20,000 bucks?
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The guy behind the house is one Russ McKamey.
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He’s said people do it to escape the daily grind of life.
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Sure, some folks might be masochists, but others are just hankering for something to knock them sideways.
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For McKamey it’s theater, an extreme kind of theater.
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He’s ex-Navy and has studied theater, so he knows what he’s doing.
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He’s said that while he will take people to the edges of their fear and sanity, he records everything on tape and nothing they have done at the house has broken laws.
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It’s awful, but lawful.
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Hmm, we kinda like that tagline, maybe we should get in touch with them and make a deal.
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Just watch the videos of people going through the experience and you can watch them crumble, uttering words with a shaky voice, “You beat me…I can’t do it anymore…I’m done…I’m flying home tomorrow…I don’t need any of this.” They might have been covered in insects, stomped on, dragged around like a doll, held under dirty water and even made to eat their own vomit, but they only get to stop when their torturers think they’ve had enough.
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In an interview, McKamey said, “Every year it’s got more crazy, more aggressive.
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We wouldn’t be infamous if we weren’t able to deliver the product.” The product he says is fear, 100 percent, unadulterated fear, non-stop for as many minutes or hours as a person can take.How long would you last?
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You might first get kidnapped and soon realize that the guys aren’t messing around.
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They might not break your arm, but they will certainly stress your body in ways that are uncomfortable for you.
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They start with things that will psychologically stress you, but then escalate it until you are absolutely broken.
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McKamey says no one suffers any bad injuries and it’s all one big show, otherwise the place would have been closed down a long time ago.
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Some people disagree with him, saying that he must be a sadistic psychopath to do what he does.
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People have even protested outside his gates, and so he has had to change locations at times.
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It’s kind of a grey area, because you can see with your own eyes that people are literally scared for their lives.
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They absolutely do get broken, so you might ask if the torture is real, not just a show.
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We found one woman, a U.S government logistical analyst, who lasted just five minutes in the house, a far cry from eight hours.
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She actually returned again the year after to see if she could last a bit longer.
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She got her chance and one day she went through the ordeal with a female nursing student and a young man who was hoping to become a DEA agent.
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After a couple of hours, the latter two participants were asking to quit.
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The nurse was tied up, the guy was fastened in a straightjacket, and both were screaming out that they’ve had enough.
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They didn’t get what they wanted right away, and faced some more agonies before they were let go.
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When the masking tape was taken off the young man’s face, he was visibly traumatized, and almost sobbing, he said, “Please Russ, I’m done.” The nurse was the same, and through tears she exclaimed that she would never, ever, do that again.
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The analyst held on for longer.
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Not only did she last longer than five minutes, but she passed the four-hour mark.
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She’d been force-fed, showered with freezing cold water, dragged through stinking sewage, and had her head shaved…at one point she just she cried out for help and of course no one came.
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She said she was proud to last that long, and she admitted that she had been pushed to her limits, but she didn’t feel like she’d been abused or tortured.
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She even said she’d give it another go if she ever got the chance.
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In fact, around 25,000 people are waiting in line to see how long they can last in this house of horrors.
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No one, and we mean no one, has ever gone the full eight hours or ten hours.
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For more horror go watch “YOU vs FREDDY KRUEGER -How Can You Defeat and Survive It?” and, “7 Scary Sounds That Will Trigger a Fight Or Flight Response In You.”
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Win $20,000 Dollars if You Survive this Haunted House”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: hour, experience, Mckamey. Questo video contiene 76 frasi e 1521 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:58. Chi parla va veloce, circa 218 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| haunt verbo | /hɔnt/ | infestare |
| clause sostantivo | /klɔːz/ | proposizione |
| psychologically avverbio | psicologicamente | |
| sadistic aggettivo | /səˈdɪstɪk/ | sadico |
| terrify verbo | /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/ | terrorizzare |
| waiver sostantivo | /ˈweɪ.vɚ/ | rinuncia, esonero |
| shave verbo | /ˈʃeɪ̯v/ | radere, rasare |
| distress sostantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | angoscia, pena |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | spaventare, impaurire |
| freeze verbo | /ˈfɹiːz/ | gelare, ghiacciare |
| scream verbo | /skɹiːm/ | gridare, sbraitare |
| crumble verbo | /ˈkɹʌmbəl/ | sgretolarsi, crollare |
| exaggeration sostantivo | /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/ | esagerazione |
| exclaim verbo | /ɛkˈskleɪm/ | esclamare |
| hanker verbo | /ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/ | volere, desiderare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| go through verbo | attraversare | |
| get through verbo | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | superare, farcela |
| give up verbo | arrendersi | |
| take off verbo | togliere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | You've never heard · have they done · you've been forced |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | are bound · you've been forced · is held |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | those who do · man who was |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 32 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, you'll, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, beautician /bjuːˈtɪ(t)ʃən/, exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, vengeful /ˈvɛnʒ.fəl/, mash /mæʃ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, logistical /ləˈdʒɪ.stɪ.k(ə)l/, tarantula /təˈɹæn.t͡ʃə.lə/, participant /pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: haunt /hɔnt/, hanker /ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: haunt /hɔnt/, clause /klɔːz/, sadistic /səˈdɪstɪk/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: analyst /ˈænəlɪst/, exaggeration /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/, fasten /ˈfæsn̩/, hanker /ˈhæŋkə(ɹ)/, kidnap /ˈkɪdnæp/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come haunt, clause, psychologically.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.