Cinemassacre gives you a tour of the real life location of Sleepy Hollow, the classic Washington Irving story. A perfect video to watch on Halloween. It captures the Fall spirit.
I've watched this video every October for at least 8 years. I even emailed James years ago to thank him for it and he responded! Cinemassacre has changed, but what hasn't. I still always come back to this to complete my Halloween season.
Done the same thing, sometimes a month early though, Sad that I can't find it on CInnemasacre site anymore. That was where I would always post every year till i found it here on youtube
This is one of my FAVORITE videos of yours, James. Ever. It's so spooky and atmospheric. Captures the season as well as the Washington Irving story itself. You have a great voice for narration.
Fun video. I live in New York City and am a lifelong Legend of Sleepy Hollow geek, so I've gone up there to visit a number of times. Just wanted to mention a couple other Legend-related landmarks in the town. Major André's tree, where the Revolutionary War-era British spy John André was captured, used to stand on the edge of what is now Patriot's Park, right along the border between Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. There's still a plaque there marking its former location. The tree is prominent in Irving's story - he talks about its haunted reputation, and Ichabod had just passed it when he encountered the Horseman. There's a stream very nearby that runs through the park, and may be the same stream Irving had in mind where Ichabod first hears the "plashy tramp" of the ghost horse's hoof, though that I'm not sure about. The approximate location seems right, anyway. To my understanding, the "Broadway" that runs through town past the park pretty much follows the old road that ran through there for centuries, so it's likely to be the road along which the Horseman chased Ichabod. The village was actually called North Tarrytown until the 1990s (Sleepy Hollow may well be a name Irving just made up - I'm not aware of any evidence that anyone local called it that in his time). The residents voted to change the name and get some more of that sweet, sweet tourist money. They really milk it now - the Horseman is on all the street signs and municipal vehicles, and the sports teams at the public schools are all The Horsemen (don't know if the girls' teams are The Horsewomen). They go all out at Halloweentime, and there's a haunted hayride and lots of elaborate pageantry (including of course headless riders) at the Philipsburg Manor across from the Old Dutch Church, around the millpond Irving mentions in the story. A train stop or two south, closer to the city, is Irvington, the location of the author's beautiful, custom-built estate "Sunnyside." That's been preserved as a sort of Irving museum and is also a must-visit if you're a Legend fan.
I grew up across the river from Sleepy Hollow but always loved to pay a visit during Halloween season. The village has orange and black street signs now, fully embracing ther Halloween heritage. Many houses also feature a horseman statue for decoration. Makes me proud to see a place near my home featured on Cinemassacre!
I watch a lot of Headless Horseman/Sleepy Hollow videos and movies all throughout October. This is the first time I've seen this video, but it won't be the last. It is an excellent tour video. Thanks for posting it.
My family and I moved to Sleepy Hollow in 2014 and we love it! It's so beautiful here, especially around fall! The scenery is beautiful and the people are all very nice!
This was great and you saved me a trip to Sleepy Hollow to investigate these locations. However, I must say that the"The Halloween Capital of the World" is Salem MA. Go some weekend in October and you will find out why...
You need to go to Sleepy Hollow during the month of October. This video is good... but - does not embrace "The Real Halloween Capital of the World" in October. Lots to see.
I can't help but feel a connection between The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Scottish poem Tam O'Shanter. Both stories revolve around small townsfolk embracing local superstition, both feature a climactic chase on a horse and both feature ambiguous endings. The Horseman's indentity is left a mystery as to wether he was real or simply a prank. Much like the ending of Tam O'Shanter were we either accept the existence of the spirits or if they were simply drunken hallucinations.
Aidan Lynn I always kinda thought the original Halloween film also had that kinda Sleepy Hollow edge to it. Both involving local superstitions and twilight tales of an infamous figure (in this case, Michael Myers in place of The Horseman) that haunts a small quite town and later stirs a ruckus and causes trouble for our hero (Laurie Stroud in place of Ichabod) and later proving to be true after being denied as a real person by townsfolk.
Tarrytown aka sleepy hollow IS an awesome place to visit during Halloween so many activities I would suggest to any and everyone to try it once I’m sure you WONT be disappointed !! Took my wife last year 2018 ..the foliage as walking through the cemetery is just beautiful!! Try it once people!!
how this video does not have 3 million more views is beyond me. this is a very, very, very, well msde video, James. i absolutely can not wait to watch it this October.
I truly wish James would do more of this sort of thing. It's educational and entertaining, and I love the style of it, how by the end I was unsure of when he was quoting from the Washington Irving story and when he was writing his own narration. It was like the atmosphere of the place had influenced him into taking on the writing style from long ago. Well done!
I grew up in northern NJ. I visited this town and cemetery a few times. To say the least, its amazing. I'm 41 now and living in San Diego. My family all lives in NY, NJ and VA. I visit the east coast about 3 times a year. I'm planning on going back to Sleepy Hollow for the first time since 1998, when I was only 22. This place is magical. In my will, I want to be buried here.
I remember this story scared the hell out of me as a kid. What's odd though is that the Horseman isn't the only spirit mentioned in the story. There's a location in the story called "Raven Rock" haunted by the "Woman In White" she was a woman cought in a blizzard and died of exposure/hypothermia and her screams we're alleged to be herd before the onset of a winter storm. There's unfortunately not much else mentioned about her but just thought it was worth mentioning. But it's amusing how Icabod meets his fate from a literal Hadouken!!! Because Street Fighter was one of my favorite video games at the time I herd this story. But I agree that "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a part of American tradition and it's heritage, and is also the perfect Holloween folk tale that defines the word "classic"
Interesting tidbit, Raven Rock is also a real location just outside of Sleepy Hollow. I used to think that part of the story was an interesting bit as well, and spooked me when I was younger so I looked into it.
The Halloween capital is Salem, Massachusetts. However, you need to visit Danvers, the true location of Salem Village, so renamed after their unfortunate incident. More recently, they erected a monument to the victims of the witch trials, as a belated acknowledgment of that gristly debacle.
huda alsaidi as a tourist attraction, I think it is. If the kid doesn’t like it, that’s his problem. It may not be as exciting as Salem, but it wouldn’t kill the little tike to learn something.
By the way, this is an excellent insight into what Sleepy Hollow looks like now. Thank you as it’s unlikely I’ll ever get the chance to visit from the UK. (PS. It’s a shame ‘Major Andre’s tree no-longer exists too)
His capture point is along Broadway in Irvington, 5 min down the road. A monument is built to him at his execution spot, in the country of his enemy. That speaks volumes to his character and the esteem he was held in
Kay O'Neill was a wonderful illustrator that I always associate with these stories. You know what is an excellent spooky short story that reflects the scary late 1940's in a supernatural way is Robert Bloch's "The Cloak". I must do a channel of my own reading some creepy stuff.
I'm from Maryland, born and raised. But if I could pick any other place to live, if not Maryland, it'd be *Sleepy Hollow, NY.* In general, it looks like a nice place to live and a perfect place to spend your Halloween :-)
HEAVYMETALmovie1981 it’s not the tranquil quaint town. High taxes, traffic jams at every turn. It’s brutal! Nice place to see once for the story, but it’s very city!
My family and I moved to Sleepy Hollow NY from the South back in 2014 and we love it! Sleepy Hollow New York is such a beautiful place to live and to raise a family... it's our home now.
0:31 That's not true. In the 1999 Tim Burton version, Ichabod Crane was not a school teacher. Nor was he in the television series which ran from 2013 to 2017. Still, I greatly enjoyed this video!
America does. The jersey devil is one, we had witch trials, and all kinds of other stories that occured mostly back east because the written history goes back so much further. We also had amityville and ohh..we have waverly hills. That stephen king hotel is a real place..the biltmore if im not mistaken.
I want to go here so badly. I have always loved this story, and it's a must read every Halloween for me. There's something so inviting and comforting in it for me. It takes me right back to being a kid, and being in love with Halloween. Reading this story late at night, having nightmares about running away from the horseman. No story holds my heart quite like this one. Thank you for this, James. It feels like home.
I just found this video after binging your other ones and I have to say this is my favorite. I hope to get to go there one day during Halloween as well. Alas, I’m in Alabama and it’s definitely not easy for me to get there.
I used to pass by Sleepy Hollow on the metro north when I used to go to school in White Plains. Boring-looking, except on the foggiest days. Those are the days the town looks creepy. Funny enough, my gf at the time went to Washington Irving HS 😁
I've been to Sleepy Hollow a bunch of times and there's nothing so spectacular about it it's just another town on the shore of the Hudson River. Tho the horsemen is the big mascot of everything there
I have two choices where to live during the future. I don't know which to decide. Salem Massachusetts or Sleepy Hollow New York. Which is better to live at for Halloween festivals? Lastly, My birthday is on 10/31/95.
Very cool, James. As an AP Lit. teacher, I appreciate your passion for this story. Washington Irving is underrated; he was the first great American author. We read the first couple pages of the story every year around Halloween--there is no better piece of writing which introduces the setting.
The headless horseman chasing his quarry Ichabod Crane Is an archetype of the devil on ones heels, the chief demon of hell hounding you until he catches you and drags you off to the infernal neither regions.
Back in 2016 all year I couldn't stop thinking about going back to Sleepy Hollow in October. A year later in October 2017 I finally went back to Sleepy Hollow.
This is a great video!👍😊 The Headless Horseman is a favorite icon of the fall & Halloween 🎃 season. More interesting to me than Dracula or Frankenstein, et al. & for of the reasons he stated: it’s a very personal story at the community/village-level that we can all identify with.
That was a pretty good video man. I would say that the concrete bridge would most likely be the one but you have to think how it looked 200 years ago also, the landscape was vastly different more than likely. I'm sure if one looked hard enough they could find some of the very first photos of Sleepy Hollow ever taken and that could give one a sense of what things might have look like. Also the van tassel's were a real family and had a daughter named Katrina that are buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and I would say they probably had land records of where their house was at so one could take and retrace some steps using that
Did you make a trip up there just for the day? Or did you stay in the area? I'm thinking of making a trip up this October. Any input? Thanks for all you do, man!
Excellent! I too had no idea there was a real place named Sleepy Hollow. I now have several places to visit on my next trip to New England, preferably around Halloween. Another is definitely Salem, Massachusetts.
My family and I visited in 2012 and loved the place so much that we moved here permanently in 2014 and been here ever since... we love it here! Sleepy Hollow should be experienced at least once. Hope you get to visit
so happy i found this video. I have visited sleepy hollow a few times and planned to this autumn as well however have not been able to yet... Watching this tonight put a smile on my face and reminded me why i need to make another visit soon. I love Sleepy Hollow.
I have actually play Sleepy Hollow as a theater once! Me and my theater group made our own version of the story! And I was playing Ichabod Crane! And the guy who played his/mine rival Brom Bones was a 10 years old little boy! I was 25 years old! It was really fun!
Just visited this place 2 days ago and I highly recommend it to everyone. Went to Salem Mass. Right after. Drove 4 hours and it wasn’t even close to the Halloween atmosphere sleepy hollow conveyed to me.
The real Headless Horseman was right by Route 9/Broadway within sight of the Old Dutch Church. There are even photos of a version of it (several were built but rotted away through the years) to be had on the internet.
Awesome video. Thank you. I love the Headless Horseman and now I want to go to Sleepy Hollow. I grew up in the country surrounded by farms and I don't live that far away from where I grew up now but I always would think the Headless Horseman would be coming down the road by the apple orchard trying to get me when I was growing up. The sights,the sounds, the smells .....I love fall.
Nice narration, you have a voice that could either put you to sleep or keep you awake in fright . The right decibel of voice is needed for that, and you have it . This was quite interesting and it actually kept me in suspense. Awesome job , maybe someday I will try going there , just for a history excursion. Thank you.
The shattered pumpkin found near Ichabod's hat was the big giveaway that Ichabod's encounter with the ghost was all a prank set up by Brom because the narration before never said anything about the horseman having a pumpkin, but what SEEMED like a severed head. The pumpkin was part of the prank. In a way, Brom was the first Scooby Doo villian.
@@mikshinee87 Well, there are different ideas that the story gives us to choose from. It's a legend after all. One man in the story claims he saw him in the city where he became a lawyer. And Brom would laugh whenever the pumpkin found near Ichabod's hat was mentioned. Either Brom was a total psycho who laughs when thinking of a man he murdered or he remembered some fun he had scaring a man away from town. Like the people of Tarry Town, we come to our own conclusion.
FYI: the original covered bridge remains are immediately to the right as you pass through the gates. If you push through the vegetation on the edge of the stream you can see the foundations on both sides of the river. Also the VanTasels are berried not far from Washington Irvings family plot. And on Halloween every year, local actors dress up as ghosts and wander the cemetery. One of the highest points in the grave yard is a crypt with the name: HENRY. Bring lunch as it overlooks most of the cemetery and you can watch the ghost actors wander below.
I've watched this video every October for at least 8 years. I even emailed James years ago to thank him for it and he responded! Cinemassacre has changed, but what hasn't. I still always come back to this to complete my Halloween season.
Done the same thing, sometimes a month early though, Sad that I can't find it on CInnemasacre site anymore. That was where I would always post every year till i found it here on youtube
14 years here, used to watch it on.the actual cinemassacre website but can't find it on there anymore.
This is one of my FAVORITE videos of yours, James. Ever. It's so spooky and atmospheric. Captures the season as well as the Washington Irving story itself. You have a great voice for narration.
@Winchester-BornIn1973 Can I see a source on that? I'd love to, I'm just curious not defensive.
this video is very cozy
excellent way to describe it - cozy
Yeah, it's hyggelig.
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That's why I love watching the Sleepy Hollow films. The Canadian film adaption was really true to the story.
Fun video. I live in New York City and am a lifelong Legend of Sleepy Hollow geek, so I've gone up there to visit a number of times. Just wanted to mention a couple other Legend-related landmarks in the town. Major André's tree, where the Revolutionary War-era British spy John André was captured, used to stand on the edge of what is now Patriot's Park, right along the border between Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. There's still a plaque there marking its former location. The tree is prominent in Irving's story - he talks about its haunted reputation, and Ichabod had just passed it when he encountered the Horseman.
There's a stream very nearby that runs through the park, and may be the same stream Irving had in mind where Ichabod first hears the "plashy tramp" of the ghost horse's hoof, though that I'm not sure about. The approximate location seems right, anyway. To my understanding, the "Broadway" that runs through town past the park pretty much follows the old road that ran through there for centuries, so it's likely to be the road along which the Horseman chased Ichabod.
The village was actually called North Tarrytown until the 1990s (Sleepy Hollow may well be a name Irving just made up - I'm not aware of any evidence that anyone local called it that in his time). The residents voted to change the name and get some more of that sweet, sweet tourist money. They really milk it now - the Horseman is on all the street signs and municipal vehicles, and the sports teams at the public schools are all The Horsemen (don't know if the girls' teams are The Horsewomen). They go all out at Halloweentime, and there's a haunted hayride and lots of elaborate pageantry (including of course headless riders) at the Philipsburg Manor across from the Old Dutch Church, around the millpond Irving mentions in the story.
A train stop or two south, closer to the city, is Irvington, the location of the author's beautiful, custom-built estate "Sunnyside." That's been preserved as a sort of Irving museum and is also a must-visit if you're a Legend fan.
I hope this video never gets taken down. It's so cozy and capture the autumn and halloween feeling so perfectly. Thank you James
I grew up across the river from Sleepy Hollow but always loved to pay a visit during Halloween season. The village has orange and black street signs now, fully embracing ther Halloween heritage. Many houses also feature a horseman statue for decoration. Makes me proud to see a place near my home featured on Cinemassacre!
Looks like a really cool place to live, especially this time of year. I'd love to visit it on Halloween someday.
fountainhead the darkwold is mesmerizing huh..lol
fountainhead I've wanted to go their for years,loved the films
I would love to go there some October!
From Brooklyn and use to camp up there in the late 70s... Always loved stopping there and Red Apple Rest by Harriman St.Pk.
I watch a lot of Headless Horseman/Sleepy Hollow videos and movies all throughout October. This is the first time I've seen this video, but it won't be the last. It is an excellent tour video. Thanks for posting it.
Same.
I would pay for another of these types of videos. I watch it all the time for that Halloween comfort. You are the man, James.
Man, Sleepy Hollow sounds like an AWESOME place to visit! Another place added to my bucket list!
My family and I moved to Sleepy Hollow in 2014 and we love it! It's so beautiful here, especially around fall! The scenery is beautiful and the people are all very nice!
@@mikebrooks1620 Just watch out for the phantom Hessian. You don't want to lose your head, after all.
Sleepy Hollow is so lovely! I live nearby and used to go there around Halloween every year
@@groovy4451 is it easy to get there from NYC?
This was done with a lot of love. Well done.
This was great and you saved me a trip to Sleepy Hollow to investigate these locations. However, I must say that the"The Halloween Capital of the World" is Salem MA. Go some weekend in October and you will find out why...
You need to go to Sleepy Hollow during the month of October. This video is good... but - does not embrace "The Real Halloween Capital of the World" in October. Lots to see.
Salem in October is crazy. But worth to go at least once if youre a Halloween fan.
I love this video so much. I love watching it all the time. Listening to James talk about horror is awesome!
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. Glad It's finally on youtube!
I can't help but feel a connection between The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Scottish poem Tam O'Shanter. Both stories revolve around small townsfolk embracing local superstition, both feature a climactic chase on a horse and both feature ambiguous endings. The Horseman's indentity is left a mystery as to wether he was real or simply a prank. Much like the ending of Tam O'Shanter were we either accept the existence of the spirits or if they were simply drunken hallucinations.
Aidan Lynn I always kinda thought the original Halloween film also had that kinda Sleepy Hollow edge to it. Both involving local superstitions and twilight tales of an infamous figure (in this case, Michael Myers in place of The Horseman) that haunts a small quite town and later stirs a ruckus and causes trouble for our hero (Laurie Stroud in place of Ichabod) and later proving to be true after being denied as a real person by townsfolk.
Tarrytown aka sleepy hollow IS an awesome place to visit during Halloween so many activities I would suggest to any and everyone to try it once I’m sure you WONT be disappointed !! Took my wife last year 2018 ..the foliage as walking through the cemetery is just beautiful!! Try it once people!!
how this video does not have 3 million more views is beyond me. this is a very, very, very, well msde video, James. i absolutely can not wait to watch it this October.
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Disney's Ichabod is my absolute favorite Halloween special.
I truly wish James would do more of this sort of thing. It's educational and entertaining, and I love the style of it, how by the end I was unsure of when he was quoting from the Washington Irving story and when he was writing his own narration. It was like the atmosphere of the place had influenced him into taking on the writing style from long ago. Well done!
I grew up in northern NJ. I visited this town and cemetery a few times. To say the least, its amazing. I'm 41 now and living in San Diego. My family all lives in NY, NJ and VA. I visit the east coast about 3 times a year. I'm planning on going back to Sleepy Hollow for the first time since 1998, when I was only 22. This place is magical. In my will, I want to be buried here.
I’m reading Irving right now. Still entertaining and relatable.
I absolutely love Sleepy Hallow. Such a fun dow. Make sure to check out the old theater. Watched "Psycho" on an original movie reel once there.
I love Washington Irving's work. His Legend of Sleepy Hollow Sketch Book is a good read.
I remember this story scared the hell out of me as a kid. What's odd though is that the Horseman isn't the only spirit mentioned in the story. There's a location in the story called "Raven Rock" haunted by the "Woman In White" she was a woman cought in a blizzard and died of exposure/hypothermia and her screams we're alleged to be herd before the onset of a winter storm. There's unfortunately not much else mentioned about her but just thought it was worth mentioning. But it's amusing how Icabod meets his fate from a literal Hadouken!!! Because Street Fighter was one of my favorite video games at the time I herd this story.
But I agree that "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a part of American tradition and it's heritage, and is also the perfect Holloween folk tale that defines the word "classic"
Interesting tidbit, Raven Rock is also a real location just outside of Sleepy Hollow. I used to think that part of the story was an interesting bit as well, and spooked me when I was younger so I looked into it.
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This video is like visiting an old friend.
The Halloween capital is Salem, Massachusetts. However, you need to visit Danvers, the true location of Salem Village, so renamed after their unfortunate incident. More recently, they erected a monument to the victims of the witch trials, as a belated acknowledgment of that gristly debacle.
Jason Q is that good for kids 11 years old or not?
huda alsaidi as a tourist attraction, I think it is. If the kid doesn’t like it, that’s his problem. It may not be as exciting as Salem, but it wouldn’t kill the little tike to learn something.
Walt King That’s about a 9 on the tension scale!
@@A2D4 haha....Bruce Dern talking to one of the Klopecs in The Burbs!
I miss these types of videos! Warms my bones from the chilly Autumn air! Happy Halloween! 🎃
I found it funny those idiots renamed it "North Tarrytown" for a century and didn't go back to its legendary awesome name until 1996.
so thats why it all looks like a nineties movie set
I dont think it was ever officially named Sleepy Hollow until the 90s
By the way, this is an excellent insight into what Sleepy Hollow looks like now. Thank you as it’s unlikely I’ll ever get the chance to visit from the UK.
(PS. It’s a shame ‘Major Andre’s tree no-longer exists too)
The tree was blasted by lightning around 1800. It stood in the middle of the road in front of what is now the Warner Library.
His capture point is along Broadway in Irvington, 5 min down the road. A monument is built to him at his execution spot, in the country of his enemy. That speaks volumes to his character and the esteem he was held in
I like watching this video every year before Halloween. Really like it.
Kay O'Neill was a wonderful illustrator that I always associate with these stories. You know what is an excellent spooky short story that reflects the scary late 1940's in a supernatural way is Robert Bloch's "The Cloak". I must do a channel of my own reading some creepy stuff.
I have come back every year to watch this video.
Think this is year at least year 7
yea boi
It's that time of year.
I'm from Maryland, born and raised. But if I could pick any other place to live, if not Maryland, it'd be *Sleepy Hollow, NY.* In general, it looks like a nice place to live and a perfect place to spend your Halloween :-)
HEAVYMETALmovie1981 it’s not the tranquil quaint town. High taxes, traffic jams at every turn. It’s brutal! Nice place to see once for the story, but it’s very city!
My family and I moved to Sleepy Hollow NY from the South back in 2014 and we love it! Sleepy Hollow New York is such a beautiful place to live and to raise a family... it's our home now.
Man I love this stuff! Keep it up James
this video is like an amazing PC game
0:31 That's not true. In the 1999 Tim Burton version, Ichabod Crane was not a school teacher. Nor was he in the television series which ran from 2013 to 2017. Still, I greatly enjoyed this video!
Europe has their ghosts and legends. America should have their own also
America does. The jersey devil is one, we had witch trials, and all kinds of other stories that occured mostly back east because the written history goes back so much further. We also had amityville and ohh..we have waverly hills. That stephen king hotel is a real place..the biltmore if im not mistaken.
I want to go here so badly. I have always loved this story, and it's a must read every Halloween for me. There's something so inviting and comforting in it for me. It takes me right back to being a kid, and being in love with Halloween. Reading this story late at night, having nightmares about running away from the horseman. No story holds my heart quite like this one. Thank you for this, James. It feels like home.
I just found this video after binging your other ones and I have to say this is my favorite. I hope to get to go there one day during Halloween as well. Alas, I’m in Alabama and it’s definitely not easy for me to get there.
I used to pass by Sleepy Hollow on the metro north when I used to go to school in White Plains. Boring-looking, except on the foggiest days. Those are the days the town looks creepy. Funny enough, my gf at the time went to Washington Irving HS 😁
All the towns are "boring looking" from that train. Try exploring Sleepy Hollow.
I went to Sleepy Hollow a few weeks ago. It's a beautiful spot and they embrace halloween.
I've been to Sleepy Hollow a bunch of times and there's nothing so spectacular about it it's just another town on the shore of the Hudson River. Tho the horsemen is the big mascot of everything there
Great job keeping Washington Irving's story alive!!
i just google searched the horseman restaurant in sleepy hollow, now it says it's permanently closed. WHY?!! why is that i wonder.
I have two choices where to live during the future. I don't know which to decide. Salem Massachusetts or Sleepy Hollow New York. Which is better to live at for Halloween festivals? Lastly, My birthday is on 10/31/95.
Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow by leaps and bounds.
Salem has much more going on during Halloween honestly. Although it gets a little too crazy during October.
Very cool, James. As an AP Lit. teacher, I appreciate your passion for this story. Washington Irving is underrated; he was the first great American author. We read the first couple pages of the story every year around Halloween--there is no better piece of writing which introduces the setting.
The headless horseman chasing his quarry Ichabod Crane
Is an archetype of the devil on ones heels, the chief demon of hell hounding you until he catches you and drags you off to the infernal neither regions.
Back in 2016 all year I couldn't stop thinking about going back to Sleepy Hollow in October. A year later in October 2017 I finally went back to Sleepy Hollow.
This is SUCH a great video! Thank you SO MUCH for doing this! Loved this SO SO MUCH!
The Headless Horseman should be included in the Universal Monsters.
Going there this weekend in October!! This video is very well written and narrated. Thank you!
It's a windy, rainy night on October 30th this year. 57 degrees at 3:30am in New York. Time to watch this gem for the 12th year in a row!!!
This is a great video!👍😊 The Headless Horseman is a favorite icon of the fall & Halloween 🎃 season. More interesting to me than Dracula or Frankenstein, et al. & for of the reasons he stated: it’s a very personal story at the community/village-level that we can all identify with.
I watch this video every October.
Awesome video! Thanks for posting! 🎃 Happy Halloween
lol I watched this in my ELA class for horror genre today
What a Awesome Narration and a wonderful Video !
That was a pretty good video man. I would say that the concrete bridge would most likely be the one but you have to think how it looked 200 years ago also, the landscape was vastly different more than likely. I'm sure if one looked hard enough they could find some of the very first photos of Sleepy Hollow ever taken and that could give one a sense of what things might have look like. Also the van tassel's were a real family and had a daughter named Katrina that are buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and I would say they probably had land records of where their house was at so one could take and retrace some steps using that
Did you make a trip up there just for the day? Or did you stay in the area? I'm thinking of making a trip up this October. Any input? Thanks for all you do, man!
ps.....LOVE the Indiana Jones reference!
Wonderful video. Earlier this month, I visited Salem and had a wonderful time. Now I've added Sleepy Hallow to my Halloween list.
Excellent! I too had no idea there was a real place named Sleepy Hollow. I now have several places to visit on my next trip to New England, preferably around Halloween. Another is definitely Salem, Massachusetts.
I would love to visit Sleepy Hallow one day.
please upload all of these types of videos from cinemassacre.com
I really want to visit Sleepy Hollow one day! I love the story and the movie
My family and I visited in 2012 and loved the place so much that we moved here permanently in 2014 and been here ever since... we love it here! Sleepy Hollow should be experienced at least once. Hope you get to visit
@@mikebrooks1620 have you seen the horseman?
How have I not watched this before? Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite stories. Loved seeing the real place.
LOVE FALL MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Watch this every year... thank you James
We need more like this.....
you listed two movies as sleepy hollow from 1999. Im farmilar with the Johnny Depp one, but what was the other?
Wait I am in sleepy hollow
Fantastic tribute video to a spooky story. It was very interesting to see all the real-life locations. I'll definitely be coming back to this video!
This was so informative! I'm visiting sleepy hollow in a few weeks and now I know what to expect. Great video!
Very nicely done!
why is this a separate channel? I would have totally missed it had you not mentioned it in one of your other videos.
Who's tombstone was that with the jackolantern head?
as someone who lives in upstate new york, I love this video
Well produced with location shots, movie clips, and quotes from the story. Excellent narration also.
so happy i found this video. I have visited sleepy hollow a few times and planned to this autumn as well however have not been able to yet... Watching this tonight put a smile on my face and reminded me why i need to make another visit soon. I love Sleepy Hollow.
Thank you for doing a great job and I am fan of the headless horseman and colonial America and I agree the legend of sleepy hollow is horror classic
I have actually play Sleepy Hollow as a theater once! Me and my theater group made our own version of the story! And I was playing Ichabod Crane! And the guy who played his/mine rival Brom Bones was a 10 years old little boy! I was 25 years old!
It was really fun!
Just visited this place 2 days ago and I highly recommend it to everyone. Went to Salem Mass. Right after. Drove 4 hours and it wasn’t even close to the Halloween atmosphere sleepy hollow conveyed to me.
I suppose it's a testament to the town's haunting, sleepy nature that it hasn't become overrun by tourists and thrill-seekers.
The headless horseman is the best of horror story in the history
Why James stop doing this types of documentary Iove it and rewatching it
The real Headless Horseman was right by Route 9/Broadway within sight of the Old Dutch Church. There are even photos of a version of it (several were built but rotted away through the years) to be had on the internet.
Awesome video. Thank you. I love the Headless Horseman and now I want to go to Sleepy Hollow. I grew up in the country surrounded by farms and I don't live that far away from where I grew up now but I always would think the Headless Horseman would be coming down the road by the apple orchard trying to get me when I was growing up. The sights,the sounds, the smells .....I love fall.
That sounds awesome. Halloween is my fav holiday. And yes thevfall has that apple orchard n cider and pumpkin pie feeling to it
I have been there many times and this may have been the best tour I have been on. Nicely done!
Nice narration, you have a voice that could either put you to sleep or keep you awake in fright . The right decibel of voice is needed for that, and you have it . This was quite interesting and it actually kept me in suspense. Awesome job , maybe someday I will try going there , just for a history excursion. Thank you.
This is my favorite documentary to this day
Amazing to think people actually live there. The place looks haunted by all the spirits of the story or.... something lol.
This is such a classic!
I spent the afternoon of Halloween 2015 in Sleepy Hollow. I mostly just hung out at Patriot Park, though. I should have explored a bit more.
The shattered pumpkin found near Ichabod's hat was the big giveaway that Ichabod's encounter with the ghost was all a prank set up by Brom because the narration before never said anything about the horseman having a pumpkin, but what SEEMED like a severed head. The pumpkin was part of the prank.
In a way, Brom was the first Scooby Doo villian.
But Ichabod was never found. Was he chased out of town or murdered by Brom?
@@mikshinee87 Well, there are different ideas that the story gives us to choose from. It's a legend after all. One man in the story claims he saw him in the city where he became a lawyer. And Brom would laugh whenever the pumpkin found near Ichabod's hat was mentioned. Either Brom was a total psycho who laughs when thinking of a man he murdered or he remembered some fun he had scaring a man away from town. Like the people of Tarry Town, we come to our own conclusion.
FYI: the original covered bridge remains are immediately to the right as you pass through the gates. If you push through the vegetation on the edge of the stream you can see the foundations on both sides of the river. Also the VanTasels are berried not far from Washington Irvings family plot. And on Halloween every year, local actors dress up as ghosts and wander the cemetery. One of the highest points in the grave yard is a crypt with the name: HENRY. Bring lunch as it overlooks most of the cemetery and you can watch the ghost actors wander below.
Rewatching this masterpiece after reading the book is simply a amazing experience
Oh i completely forgot about this one. Absolute classic, love James location vid
I like that James looks like a modern Ichabod Crane.
I use to live in Yonkers, This was pretty close to my house,I visited it once with my sister. 😂🎃
So great that I can see it on tube with Shelley Duvall tale---great for youngsters to watch
One of my all-time favorite Halloween movies I would love to go up to sleepy hollow and visit