THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW: Ichabod Crane And The Headless Horseman | #MidnightInTheMacabre

A lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut rides home alone from an autumn party at the Van Tassel farm on a borrowed plow horse named Gunpowder, along the same roads the people of Sleepy Hollow say belong at night to the ghost of a Hessian trooper, still out looking for the head a cannonball took from him.

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Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 08, 2026

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