Modern Wisdom · 2025-08-23 · 67 min · 13,218 words

Why We’re Drawn to Death, Crime, & Danger - Coltan Scrivner - #984

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How do you get into studying morbid curiosity? I'm intrigued by what the character arc is that leads you to doing that. Uh You know, a lot of people ask me, did I Always want to study uh scary movies and the psychology of them and

The answer's no. I didn't always know that I wanted to study that. But I have always enjoyed them. I've always kind of like scary things when I was a kid, you know, not because I wasn't scared of them, but because they they were scared. Um, and that made them no interesting and fun to me, especially When I could kind of have them at a distance, right? You could pause the movie or

Pause the game. Uh kind of collect yourself. Um But you know, growing up I didn't really think I was into archaeology. I thought I was going to be an archaeologist. Um

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