Thread: Let's Hear It For The Headless Horseman!

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My favorite ghost story of all time is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I wish they'd do a movie that goes by the story. In Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod was a policeman.....And in the Jeff Goldblum version Ichabod survives and marries Katrina! Both were great movies, but they didn't follow the storyline. The only one I've seen that does follow it is the disney cartoon! As to the story itself, what do you think? Did Ichabod get carried off by The Headless Horseman, or did he leave town?

One other interesting note....there really is a Sleepy Hollow in upstate New York. You can visit it online if you want. Just watch out for the Headless Horseman!

The ONE fictional story that I have ever made up and told here (In The Ravens Grin Inn) had a slight similarity to the ending of the Headless Horseman story.
The story concerned a young German immigrant who had her boat passage paid for by her sponser, the owner of this tavern, she then was contracted to work to pay him back for a certain number of years, a real and common arrangement back then.
In a fit of lunacy he took her to the wine cellar and chained her to the wall and left her there (Maybe she had been flirting too much with one of the bar's customers?)
Her screaming annoyed everyone upstairs and they insisted he release her, then her screaming abruptly ceased.
They only found an empty wine cellar.
Did her boyfriend sneak down and free her? Did they run off together?
This point of the story is when I would push the little remote control in my pocket and the hole in the wine cellar wall , that they could see the back of, it's not deep, would have a black creature drop quietly down into veiw....
It would then come out of the small rocky hole, it had tenticles !
One of them would whip upwards toward the girl I had previously instructed to stand beside the manicle as I told the story.
Of course this is when she would turn her head and see it and scream a real, terrified, genuine scream of the utmost fearful content!
This device I built worked great for many years, then a kid wrestled with it(Thanks to my inattentive helper) and it broke.
When I tried to rebuild it, I "broke" myself pulling my back muscles painfully becoming a temporary cripple.
Someday.........
I do have it working on video...somewhere?