Dateline: Missing In America - Morrison Mysteries

Episode Date: October 23, 2023

Hey, Dateline fans! As a bonus, we’re giving you a special preview clip of our new podcast series Morrison Mysteries. Keith Morrison takes you on a captivating ride through some of the most suspenseful and chilling works of fiction you’ll ever hear. Get ready for haunting stories of ghosts, love triangles, jealousy and rage. Since it’s Halloween, we’re starting with Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Travel with us to a haunted town in New York, where some say the Headless Horseman rides to this day... If you like what you hear, you can listen to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow now for free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen ad-free. https://link.chtbl.com/mm_fdlwk

The story you're about to hear was found written down among the papers of a dead man. The horrible and frightening tale it was of a haunted town, a dedicated school teacher, and a man who'd lost his head. Sound like an episode of Bateline? What could be? But no. Lost his head. Sound like an episode of Dateline? What could be? But no. I'm Keith Morrison, and this is the story

of Ikebod Crane and the Headless Horseman. Welcome to our new podcast series. The stories will be classics. And some of the most mysterious, suspenseful, and spine tingling fiction you have ever heard. Since it's Halloween, we begin with a truly harrowing tale, the legend of sleepy hollow by Washington Irving. It happened this other world be haunting this terror in the night a long time ago. The year was 1790, just north of New York City. In a place the local housewives dubbed Terry Town

are the way their husbands carried at the village bar on the way home. They were Dutch, many of them, descendants of the original settlers, and they farmed the tranquil lands around them. But they knew all of them about the silent clin nestled in the hills nearby. The place they called with a shudder, sleepy hollow.

For the villageers seemed almost to feel the ghosts around them, felt a haunting shiver when they blew out the candles at night, and thought about that story of the soldier beheaded in the Revolutionary War, who was said to roam the countryside at night in an endless search for his lost head. And then one day, a tall man arrived in this little town, a schoolteacher for the local children, and his name was Ikebod Crane. And now, Washington Irving's words as we pick up the story. He was tall but exceedingly lank with narrow shoulders

and long arms and legs, hands that dangle the mile out of his sleeves. Feet that might have served for shovels. And his whole frame most loosely hung together, his head was small and flat at top, with huge ears, large green, glassy eyes, and a long, snipe nose, so it would look like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill at a windy day with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him,

one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow, eloped from a cornfield. His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs, the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks. It stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch tree growing at one end of it,

from hence the low murmur of his pupil's voices might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a beehive. Thank you for listening. To hear all three episodes of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, just search Morris and Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts.