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Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow

Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Horror Stories

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In 1820, a book was published called "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", about a man without a head galloping in the night, but famous tales of encounters with headless horsemen roaming in the night date back to the middle ages.

Produced by Edwin Covarrubias, researched by Madeline Guerra
Music: Simon Wilkinson

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0:00.0

You are talking to yourself now, perhaps a little too loudly, hoping that someone will hear you as you head back to the main walking trail.

0:17.0

It is getting late. Your phone has been dead for the past half an hour.

0:22.7

It is comforting to know that you at least know the way back.

0:26.9

But the sun has been setting and often a distant memory that you try to shrug away that

0:31.4

keeps coming back to your mind.

0:33.3

You think of the old legends that surround the city that you're visiting.

0:37.5

Tales of a war that left many people dead, possibly right on the site that you walk on today.

0:45.2

You spot the trail that will take you back to the exit of the woods.

0:49.1

You're almost there.

0:51.0

When suddenly you hear the hooves of a horse in the distance.

0:55.0

The sound grows louder along with the beating of your heart.

0:59.0

The strange heat sensation wraps around your head.

1:03.0

Something is approaching.

1:06.0

You turn around to see the tall silhouette of a beast into the distance, growing larger with every step.

1:13.9

You run.

1:15.3

Your boots dodge the dead tree branches and heaps of leaves as your eyes catch the last glimpse of the sun, setting through the trees.

1:24.3

Everything goes dark.

1:28.3

Legend has it that around these areas, there roams a horseman who is missing his head.

1:33.3

Have you heard of it?

1:35.3

Is there some truth to the encounters with the headless horseman?

1:39.3

In this episode, we explore the legend of the headless horsemen of Sleepy Hollow and some

1:45.0

of the true events that can show you that perhaps the famous story was based on something

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