Hey Adam, I have lived in Tarrytown for most of my life. Graduated from Sleepy Hollow High School. If you like to read, there is a great series by Richard Greeves re-telling of the Headless Horseman. The first book is titled Rise Headless and Ride. You will find all the places you visited.
HEY ATW...GROWING UP, I ALWAYS LISTENED TO THE "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" on a vinyl record. Y'know, the Disney treatment of the story on a record from the "Wonderful World of Disney". So cool that you took us to the REAL Sleepy Hollow!
Right near the spot where you noted the trees, houses and train sound (Metro North train) is where I scattered the ashes of a dear friend. He loved trains. I didn't even think how you can hear them from there. π₯Ή We loved Tarrytown and now he will always be a part of it. Thank you for this episode.π
Seeing as you're a big fan of filming locations, the crypt you show at 18:01 marked 1900 was used as the Collins mausoleum in the 1970 horror movie "House of Dark Shadows" starring Joan Bennett and Jonathan Frid. It was based on the 1966-71 daytime gothic soap opera.
Aaaah! This is a BIG one for me thank you again Adam the Woo!π Love Sleepy Hollow, headless horseman, Washington Irving, just ... all of it man, all of it haha. I first learned about Washington Irving when I watched and fell in love with Disney's animated film when I was a kid, and I've become a fan of the author's entire life and work too, ever since. Irving is of course most famous around Halloween for having penned the great American ghost story, but FUN FACT! fewer know that he was also obsessed with St Nicolas and Christmastime! Irving is credited for having first introduced the imagery of a rooftop hopping Santa Claus to the U.S., and his romanticized writings about Christmas festivities repopularized many Old English traditions for the "new country". Irving's work inspired Charles Dickens, and he basically revived the way we celebrate Christmas today. Halloween AND Christmas, how friggin cool is that?! π₯°
Adam, I hope while you were in the cemetery, that you visited the real graves of those that inspired the characters in the Sleepy Hollow story. They are in the area around the church. Along with Carnegie, there's also the famous graves of William Rockefeller and Walter Chrysler. Also The Ramones filmed the music video for Pet Sematary in Sleepy Hollow π
The village of Sleepy Hollow is so picturesque, I especially enjoyed where the original bridge was suppose to be , also the shot of the roof tops through the fall foliage and the train horn. Did you notice that on the stone for North Tarrytown the headless horseman clearly has a head covered with his cape. In most pictures the headless horseman appears to be scary and headless. In this the joke played is humorously revealed.
Always wanted to check this place out and glad was finally able to . I really want to go one year on Halloween night