Greetings. Tis I, the Headless Horsemen. Welcome to a very special five-part Halloween presentation from Gen Z Media. If you liked listening to The Hollow, then you probably know it was based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a short story written by Washington Irving, 200 years ago. It is one of the most famous scary stories of all time. We present it here as an audiobook in its original text.

A warning to all mortals.

What you're about to hear is a tale from 1820.

Many things have changed in our culture since then.

You're going to hear some outdated language, some outdated gender roles, and references

to things like corporal punishment in schools and bullying behavior.

Also, it's kind of scary.

Listener discretion is advised.

This neighborhood, at the time of which I am speaking, was one of those highly flavored

places which abound with chronicle and great men. The British and American line had run near it

during the war. It had therefore been the scene of marauding and infested with refugees, cowboys,

and all kinds of border chivalry. Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to

dress up his tale with a little

becoming fiction, and in the indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of every

exploit. There was the story of Daffu Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman who had nearly taken a British frigate with the old iron nine-pounder from a mud-breast work.

Fire!

That's where I take that one back to King George with you.

All right, no one pilot, no one panic.

I'm on fire.

Put me out.

Only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.

And there was an old gentleman who shall be nameless, being too rich a minor to be, lightly mentioned,

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