The Ghostly Tales of Sleepy Hollow
By Jessa Dean
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Welcome to the spooky streets of Sleepy Hollow!
Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms.
Did you know that Washington Irving based parts of his famous tale on real people and events? Or that some ghosts that haunt this idyllic hamlet date back to the American Revolution? Can you believe that not just Sleepy Hollow is known for its hauntings, but communities all along the Hudson River?
Pulled right from history, these ghostly tales will change the way you see Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley, and have you sleeping with the light on!
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Jessa Dean writes spooky stories for kids and has been a ghostwriter for multiple authors who unfortunately don't write about ghosts. She lives in Houston with feline overlords who like to "help" with her work. Her day job in law proves truth is stranger than fiction.
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The Ghostly Tales of Sleepy Hollow - Jessa Dean
The Myths and Legends of Sleepy Hollow
Have you ever visited a place that felt like it didn’t belong in our world? A place where the energy seemed to exist somewhere between the living and the dead?
Sleepy Hollow, New York, is that kind of place. In fact, the whole lower Hudson River Valley feels that way—like things aren’t at all what they seem. The fog plays tricks with your mind. The wind moans and wails. You might even pass a few stone markers that look an awful lot like skulls. But if you like ghosts, Sleepy Hollow will excite you even as it scares you! Adding to the mystery is a ghostly tale that changed everything for the town of Sleepy Hollow. In fact, this tale blurred the line between fantasy and reality so much, no one truly knows where one ends and the other begins.
You can’t talk about the lower Hudson River Valley—especially the haunted parts— without talking about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
written in 1820 by Washington Irving. Irving wrote his ghostly tale so well that people assume it actually happened. Why else would he have called it The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
The Legend
mixes real places and people with local and traditional folklore to create a story that thrills and scares readers just as much today as it did when it was published. Today, it’s required reading in many schools, and there are many movies and books that have adapted the tale. Thousands of tourists flock to Sleepy Hollow each year, especially during Halloween, to visit the places mentioned in the story.
Reading Irving’s Legend
pulls much into a spooky atmosphere that it’s hard to believe he wasn’t in New York when he wrote it. He lived in Birmingham, England, at the time, but he loved Sleepy Hollow and the surrounding areas so much that he eventually settled nearby. You can visit his home, called Sunnyside, but you might be confused about how to actually get there. Some claim it’s in Irvington, which was named after the author himself, while others say it’s in Tarrytown, which was the town established first, just three miles north of Irvington. This just goes to show you how much Irving and his Legend
are loved in the region.
But that’s not even the coolest thing about Irving’s connection to Sleepy Hollow, because Sleepy Hollow technically didn’t even exist until Irving created it! It was known as North Tarrytown until 1996. That year, the main employer in North Tarrytown—an automobile plant—shut down. Without the jobs it provided, the town would have really become a ghost town
of empty houses and buildings as people moved away. However, local leaders had a brilliant idea to save their town.
Everyone already believed Irving’s tale: they came to North Tarrytown from near and far to chase ghosts. So the town decided to become the