Yellow Fever had broken out in the teenage Irving’s native ... The inspirations behind the Headless Horseman are less clear-cut. Of course, it’s not as if Irving invented the concept of ...

This is the thrust (pun intended) of my argument, but please, hear me out. In Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman is controlled by a living person. The person who exhumes his skull ...

FISHERS, Ind. (WISH) — The Headless Horseman Festival returned to Conner Prairie in Fishers on Wednesday. The tradition brings Sleepy Hollow to life for the Halloween season. For its 41st year ...

Today we’ll meet a man who will saddle up to play the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow this weekend in the very place where the famous short story was set. We’ll also find out why violence ...