The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: The Headless Horseman Who Still Haunts America’s Darkest Roads

Then came the tale that would make Sleepy Hollow famous forever.

The Headless Horseman

According to local legend, a Hessian soldier fighting during the American Revolutionary War was struck by a cannonball during battle.

The blast reportedly tore off his head.

He was buried near an old church in Sleepy Hollow.

But death, people claimed, did not end his story.