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Dateline NBC’s 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 betrayal, love, jealousy and rage. Each chapter brings more clues, more suspense and of course, more twists and turns. So settle down and listen up, it’s classic mysteries as you’ve never heard before. 

In Season 3 of Morrison Mysteries, Dateline NBC's Keith Morrison introduces you to the Meadowcroft family, living on a sprawling American farm. The household is teeming with rivalry and passion, envy and anger. When someone mysteriously disappears, two brothers are accused of murder. But all is not as it seems. To find out what really happened, tune in to Wilkie Collins’ "The Dead Alive," a chilling novel from 150 years ago based on a real trial.

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Morrison Mysteries

New school teacher Ichabod Crane wastes no time getting to know everyone in town, especially the rich and beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. The only problem is, Katrina has another suitor – the dashing Brom Bones.

1 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Teacher Comes To Town

Ichabod Crane has fallen hard for Katrina. At a big party at the Van Tassel home, the two dance all night as jealous Brom stews in the corner. By night’s end, Ichabod prepares to profess his love.

2 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Head Over Heels

Things with Katrina don’t go the way Ichabod Crane had hoped. As he rides home, stories of local ghosts haunt his thoughts. Panicked, he gallops off into the night, only to encounter the most terrifying sight of all – the Headless Horseman himself!

3 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Ghostly Encounter

In Season 2 of Morrison Mysteries, Dateline NBC’s Keith Morrison takes you back to Victorian England, where it’s Christmas Eve. Everyone is full of joy and cheer, except one miserable man – Ebenezer Scrooge. What happened to make him so mean? Tune in to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to hear all about Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the Ghosts who show Scrooge the true spirit of Christmas.

Introducing Season 2 of Morrison Mysteries: A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas with a passion. To him, it’s all a waste of time and money. But when he’s visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, the equally greedy Jacob Marley, Scrooge begins to understand the error of his ways.

1 – A Christmas Carol: Marley’s Ghost

The Ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge and takes him back to his own childhood. He’s reminded that he was shown kindness as a young man, and had even been in love, before his greed took over.

2 – A Christmas Carol: The First of the Three Spirits

The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge how Christmas should be celebrated – with joy and giving, even when you are poor, like Scrooge’s own kindly clerk Bob Cratchit.

3 – A Christmas Carol: The Second of the Three Spirits

The Ghost of Christmas Future reveals the appalling events that will happen if Scrooge doesn’t become a kinder man. Tiny Tim will die, and so will Scrooge, though no one will mourn him. Scrooge begs the Ghost for a chance to put things right.

4 – A Christmas Carol: The Last of the Spirits

Ebenezer Scrooge awakens in his home on Christmas morning to find he has a second chance. He joyfully makes amends with all those around him and even becomes a father figure to Tiny Tim.

5 – A Christmas Carol: The End of It

In Season 3 of Morrison Mysteries, Dateline NBC's Keith Morrison introduces you to the Meadowcroft family, living on a sprawling American farm. The household is teeming with rivalry and passion, envy and anger. When someone mysteriously disappears, two brothers are accused of murder. But all is not as it seems. Tune in to Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Alive, a novel based on a real trial from 150 years ago, to find out what really happened. 

Begin listening for free on Monday, August 26. Subscribe to Dateline Premium to listen ad-free and get subsequent episodes early: DatelinePremium.com

Introducing Season 3 of Morrison Mysteries: The Dead Alive

There's tension at the Meadowcroft estate. Farm manager John Jago fights furiously with the owner's sons, Ambrose and Silas. They discover that Jago had a secret meeting with Ambrose's girlfriend, Naomi. And then suddenly... John Jago goes missing.

2 – The Missing Man

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