Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman Redux

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a well known piece of fiction written by Washington Irving in 1819. Many of us first heard the story in our youth and the tale fueled our imagination with images of a headless horseman chasing a man through the forest, carrying a fiery pumpkin that represented his head. It was a terrifying tale. But is this just simply a piece of fiction? Is there some truth to the story? Headless figures are quite common in the world of the paranormal. And the setting for Irving's story is a real place with real locations mentioned in the tale. We've actually gotten to visit it and even paid our respects at the cemetery, which is Irving's final resting place. Join us as we explore the legends of the headless horseman and the history and hauntings of Sleepy Hollow!

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.8	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night, broadcasting from the Central
0:34.9	Party and the Supernatural in Central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:48.4	Hello, you spooktacular people. Welcome to History Goes Bump Redux. I'm your host,
0:54.3	I am. And this is Kelly. Kelly, on this redux, we are revisiting Sleepy Hollow and
0:59.6	the Headless Horseman. And part of the reason we're doing that is we've actually been to
1:03.2	Sleepy Hollow now. We have and it was so exciting when we happened upon it. Yeah, it was
1:08.2	totally by accident. You guys probably have heard the story in one of the regular episodes,
1:12.4	but on our trip in August of 2022, we were heading up the East Coast, making our way
1:17.5	to Salem. And we were heading back home. We were going to hit Gettysburg next and we got stuck
1:23.5	in some traffic and we got rerouted three times as Google does. And our son Jared was sitting
1:29.6	in the back and happened to look up and saw Terry Town on a sign and said, oh, isn't that the name
1:35.9	that Sleepy Hollow used to be? And I went, yes. And it's like next to that town. And we were like,
1:42.3	it's right here. Quick, get off the highway. And we did. And we found the place where the original
1:48.4	bridge had been that inspired the scene in the legend of Sleepy Hollow where the Headless Horseman
1:54.8	is chasing Ichabod crane across now. It's just a regular road bridge. And then we got to go see
2:00.0	the recreated one inside one of the coolest cemeteries we've been in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
2:04.8	Yes, indeed. Which also happens to be haunted. So it will be part of this episode. Kelly,
2:10.3	are you ready to go back? I'm ready.
2:30.4	The legend of Sleepy Hollow is a well-known piece of fiction written by Washington Irving in 1819.
2:36.6	Many of us first heard the story in our youth and the tale fueled our imagination with images
2:41.3	of a headless horseman chasing a man through the forest carrying a fiery pumpkin that represented
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