The story you're about to hear was found written down among the papers of a dead man.

The horrible and frightening tale it was of a haunted town, a dedicated schoolteacher,

and a man who'd lost his head, sound like an episode of Dateline, or could be.

But no, I'm Keith Morrison, and this is the story of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman.

Welcome to our new podcast series, where the stories will be classics, and some of the

most mysterious, suspenseful, and spine-tingling fiction you have ever heard.

Since it's Halloween, we begin with a truly harrowing tale.

The legend of sleepy hollow by Washington Irving.

It happened this other world be haunting this terror in the night a long time ago.

The year was 1790, just north of New York City.

In a place the local housewives dubbed Terry Town, for the way their husbands carried

at the village bar in the way home.

They were Dutch, many of them, descendants of the original settlers, and they farmed

the tranquil lands around them.

But they knew all of them, about the silent clin nestled in the hills nearby.

The place they called with a shudder, sleepy hollow.

For the villagers seemed almost to feel the ghosts around them, felt a haunting shiver

when they blew out the candles at night, and thought about that story of the soldier,

beheaded in the Revolutionary War, who was said to roam the countryside at night in an

endless search for his lost head.

And then one day, a tall man arrived in this little town, a schoolteacher for the local

children, and his name was Ikabod Crane.

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