The Van Tassels were so grateful, that when a Hessian soldier missing his head was found in Sleepy Hollow, they insisted on burying him properly in case it was the soldier who had been kind to them.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a seminal piece of Gothic literature. Washington Irving’s tale of a headless Hessian and his Halloween ride is largely considered to be one of the earliest ...

No, we’re not saying that a literal headless ghost haunts the village of Sleepy Hollow on horseback. During the Battle of White Plains, though, some historians believe that an actual Hessian ...

unlucky Ichabod is chased down by the headless Hessian (or believes he is), and vanishes in the night, leaving only his horse and a smashed pumpkin behind. The residents of Sleepy Hollow are ...

Bryan Haeffele These include Hessian soldiers and Redcoats ... presenting his one-man adaptation of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Dressed in period garb complete with brass-buttoned military ...

Sleepy Hollow’s most haunting specter "is the apparition of a figure on horseback … the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle ...

First published in 1819, Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the tale of a ... that of the Headless Horseman-the ghost of a Hessian soldier who lost his head during the war.

In 1776, there was Hessian trooper whose head ... SIMON: And, of course, we see the legacy of "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" turn up in American literature and popular entertainment to this ...

Ensconced in the home of Sleepy Hollow's finest, Baltus Van Tassel (Gambon), Constable Crane is told the story of the Hessian Horseman (a pointy-toothed Christopher Walken) - a former German ...