Annie Elise

I am very curious to hear what you guys think about it.

Again, that's 10 to Life on all podcast platforms, and I will also link it for you in the show notes.

Hey, true crime besties.

Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly.

With me, Annie Elise, your true crime bestie, here to take you on another rollercoaster of a case because, let me just tell you, today's case is wild.

But before we get into all of that, hoping you are having a good start to your week.

Hope you had a fantastic weekend, whether you're driving, whether you're at home, just

chilling, whether you're cleaning, wherever it is you're at, I hope that you're just mentally ready.

I hope that you're in a state of, I don't want to say zen, but maybe zen, maybe zen, just ready to hear the unthinkable and ready to go on this truly twisted roller coaster with me today.

Because to say that today's case is a weird one

is like the understatement of the universe.

It is a case that is filled with everything.

I'm talking about an online cult, dead bodies, bizarre beliefs, a true obsession over AI, disappearances, fake disappearances, fake identities, and somehow, in the mix of all of that, as if that wasn't odd enough...

throw in some Harry Potter fan fiction for a little added sprinkle into it.

I mean, it's really wild, but to really understand how this entire insane case unfolded, we've got to go back and start with where a lot of bizarre things really start in today's day and age, and that is the deep, dark corners of the internet.

Now, in this particular case, it was a handful of people who got really, really into specific blog posts about philosophical stuff.

You know, people's values, how human beings think, the power of computers, things like that.

And they really started bonding together over these blog posts.

And they believed in this way of thinking that basically rejected human emotions and it relied on logic for everything.