Sleepy Hollow

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We couldn't think of better cemeteries to explore before Halloween than the two located in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

We visited both in 2022 and highly recommend that everyone peruse them at least once in their lifetime.

One cemetery is the Old Dutch Burying Ground that is situated next to the Old Dutch Church.

The other cemetery is the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, which was originally named Tarrytown Cemetery, as Sleepy Hollow only officially became a village name in 1996.

There are many notable people at final rest in both cemeteries, and of course...

The name and the popularity have all come from the story by Washington Irving about the Headless Horseman chasing Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

And in honor of that, I'm wearing the brand new t-shirt that I got from Grunt Style.

Um, this one is iconic.

I mean, even if you have not read the legend of sleepy hollow, you know about the

legend.

So, um, I think we talked about this at one point, like there's literally a Disney version of the legend of sleepy hollow.

So like everyone knows about it.

Right.

And so of course this is sleepy hollow, New York.

Um, which inspired Washington Irving's story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, right? Mm-hmm.

Coming up, composer Michael Giacchino with us.

He'll be at Walt Disney Concert Hall this Saturday for a preview of his new musical Headless, based on the legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Also a screening of the film Werewolf by Night with a live score.

We're going to hear all about it from Michael Giacchino in just one minute.

Well, I appreciate it.

It's so good to see you again.

So let's talk about Headless, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and your collaboration, the three of you who have created this project.

Yeah, I created this with Elisa Samsel and Kate Anderson, two brilliant songwriters who I love working with.

So all of that's coming into play to keeping this Dutch culture so sticky.

But there's another major influence, too, and it's the Dutch church, especially the one in Sleepy Hollow, because it was built so early.

If you came to the area, and people did, English, Huguenots, Swiss, people from what is today Germany, all the time, they're coming into the area.

But if you married into a family in Phillipsburg Manor, you assimilated into that Dutch culture.

At the end of the war, the Treaty of Paris of 1783, we still didn't recognize the land rights of the Native Americans.

You also mentioned very early in our conversation that Phillipsburg Manor, one of the ways that the Phillipses earned money was by participating in the slave trade.

And they also then enslaved people themselves at the manor, at the mill, in Sleepy Hollow.

What was the experience like for enslaved African-Americans in the county? Do we know how many enslaved people there were either just at Phillipsburg Manor or in the county as a whole in this era?

Yeah,

Sleepy Hollow is right over there too.

So if you want to do some pre-Halloween hijinks and fun, I just showed my...

Well, my two-year-old unfortunately watched it as well, but...

He showed up for a couple of it.

Sleepy Hollow? No, Ernest Scared Stupid.

Oh, yeah.

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You're talking to him.

Five, in which U.S. state is the town of Sleepy Hollow located? In which U.S.

state is the town of Sleepy Hollow located? A, Massachusetts.

B, New York.

C, Connecticut.

What are they again?

Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania.

Where is the town of Sleepy Hollow located? Sleepy Hollow.

Welcome to 15 Minutes to Kill, dark travel journals, true crime, and creatures of shadow.

I'm your host, DJ Swales, and I'm sending you spooky season greetings from our real-life haunted house in a woodland not far from Sleepy Hollow, deep in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley, a place of many tortured histories.

Now, I hope you're ready for the second ghost story of this 13 Japanese Tales spooky season countdown.

If so, grab a steaming cup of Earl Grey tea and a slice of lemon drizzle cake, or whatever's your poison, because it's time to get comfy.