Dateline: Missing In America - Introducing: The Man in the Black Mask

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for The Man in the Black Mask, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Keith Morrison.It’s the story of a rising young director shooting a frightening film about a serial killer in a hockey mask. But when a man goes missing near the set, a real-life horror story unfolds…Follow now to get the first two episodes on Tuesday, October 15 completely free. Or, subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or DatelinePremium.com to hear the first two episodes now. Subscribers receive ad-free listening and early access to subsequent episodes.

Okay, we're ready for the killer stuff. We're on the set of a movie, a horror movie. They're about to film a killing. Okay, we are rolling. Killers, take a slight step to the right there. There you go. And action. Frame.

Zap. Okay, that was terrible. Action. Frame. Zap. Ah! Ah! Cut. Okay, that was terrible. The writer-director is an emerging artist. His specialty, the terrifying world at the dark end of make-believe. I love what I do. From the first day that I stepped on a set, that was when I knew.

And I was just like, kind of like, there's no going back. Nothing else would make me feel fulfilled in what I was doing, and I love what I do, so I just chased it with everything I knew. And I was just like, kind of like, there's no going back. Nothing else would make me feel fulfilled in what I was doing, and I love what I do, so I just chased it with everything I have. But now a man had vanished, perhaps from that very movie set, and police were involved. As soon as they called me on the phone, I'd get this weird chill. Strange events, even beyond the soundstage. I have never in my life felt fear like that. He looked at me and said, I'm being robbed, can you help me?

It's like every nightmare you had as a child, after watching a scary movie, every nightmare you've ever had, all of a sudden it's right here, like this masked guy is standing there. It felt like a horror movie. Gum horribly alive. I was terrified. I didn't know what to do.

It was like, oh my god, I think I'm going to die. Even the detective was drawn in, obsessed. I was sitting there listening to his story, and I had chills going up my spine. But then it was just a movie, wasn't it? What better way to start a movie off than to have your name on the tip of everybody's tongue? I'm Keith Morrison. Our latest A-Bind podcast will take us into another world where fantasy seems very real and reality, Well, who knows?

Did you feel sometimes like you were in the middle of, you know, Alice in Wonderland or The Matrix or something? I always believed that story to be true right from the start. I'm thinking he killed him and he had filmed the murder. MUSIC I'm Keith Morrison, and this is The Man in the Black Mask, an all-new podcast from Dateline. Beginning Tuesday, October 15th, you can listen to the latest episodes completely free. Or to begin listening now, subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or datelinepremium.com.

Subscribers get early access to new episodes and can listen to all Dateline podcasts ad-free.