• 17:24 - 20:19
Joshua Cutchin & Ryan Grulich | The Lady Of The Lake, Disclosure Doubts, & Ego Death At The Threshold
Humanizing Victims and the Creation of an Egregore
Ryan Gruelich discusses the importance of humanizing Hallie Illingworth to avoid the common true crime trap of deifying killers. He suggests that the community's collective storytelling has transformed Hallie into an egregore, a group thought-form that grants her a new kind of power in death. This process is compared to the experience of a theme park attraction where the phenomenon responds to human engagement.