A Trip to Sleepy Hollow (2009)

Ahhh, Sleepy Hollow. This is one my all time favorite american folk tales. The 1999 movie directed by Tim Burton is one of my favorite movies of a time. Tim Burton does a wonderful job in setting the mood of the whole movie. Maybe next Halloween you can review it for your monster madness segment you do every year. Anyways keep up the good work and I can't wait for the Nerd Movie to come out.

A couple additional observations from an upstate New Yorker:
- Some stupid company sold that stylized clock shown at 2:45 to a ton of towns upstate about 5-10 years ago. I'm from Bethlehem, NY, and my friends have a snarky name for our town's clock -- the Unity Clock.
- The school district in Kinderhook, NY is called the Ichabod Crane Central School District because Washington Irving lived there. The school district is well-known in the Capital Region because whenever there are school closings for snow, they're ALWAYS on the list, not for a one-hour delay, fully closed for the slightest flake of snow. Or at least that's how it was when I was in school.

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Not nearly as dramatic a story as Sleepy Hollow, but I ended up in Nelson, Canada once where the 1987 movie Roxanne was filmed. Roxanne is based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" and stars Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.

It was quite easy visiting some of the sites where the movie's scenes were shot. Great fun.

I don't know what Joshua61991 is talking about the town being called Westchester...the County is Westchester but to the best of my knowledge tarrytown and sleepy hollow are the same place. Anyway I live down the road from sleepy hollow and I work there. It certainly is creepy...I drove down Sleepy Hollow Road with my friend last night at around 12:30 and it truly is freaky as hell...even to a local. ALso Sleepy Hollow road is not the road where the horsemen went down.

James Bro that is so awesome you came to where i grew up(near) i was born in Tarrytown at Phelps Memorial Hospital and spent every halloween wandering through that very same cemetery, and if you wanna hear a mean trick when i was about 7 years of age, my older cousin was driving me and my brother through there and he stopped the car and acted like we were getting out only to jump back in and leave me and my brother there while we voided our bowels, of course he returned only a couple minutes after but i was scared half to death, it truly does have an eerie feel to it, especially in the fall season and halloween, anyways if youre ever in the area again please man lets hang!

I really liked this - a little mini-documentary. i didn't know it was a real city either.

You could make a Blair Witch movie where you go looking at Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman kills you all.

this is awsome! good and really entertaining work guys!

Now this was really interesting to view... Very informative and Educational.
I too never realised that this was a story based on actual beliefs of the people from the village of Sleepy Hollow, I guess you are never too old to learn something new?

...but what a great name for a place, eh? "Sleepy Hollow"

How cool must it be to use that address in all correspondence, like all letters etc?

to. Punkster Daddy
13 Irving street
Sleepy Hollow
U.S.A

That would be swwweeeeeeeeettt!

cool...i was really into the whole story telling you did. i never even knew it sleepy hollow existed till you told me.

Whilelm Scream Spotted!

What's the music score at 8:22

Thanks for clearing that up RecklessYouth

Sleepy hollow has some nice historic sites, but pretty much anywhere in NY looks and feels like it could be in a film adaptation of a Washington Irving novel...or a revolutionary war reenactment.

OMG north of nyc? then i live REALLY REALLY REALLY close to that spot! i should go there sometime!!

I finally got a chance to visit Sleepy Hollow after I was inspired to do so by this video 1 year ago. It really is a great place, with a lot to do in a weekend. You can ride bikes around the Sleepy Hollow Cemetary, see the famous Jack-O-Lantern Blaze that has thousands of pumpkins and sculptures, visit Washington Irving's house on the Hudson, and any number of historic places and mansions. The Huson Valley historic society is top notch. If you go, look up the Tarrytown house, it's a great hotel with lots of old buildings, gardens, and an awesome gym and indoor pool.
-Andy

What kind of camera do you use.

Yes, the town is unermarkable...but isn't that the point?

You get that small town feel whenever you read the story or watch the old Disney cartoon. My family and I watch that show every single Halloween, and I can't help but get excited every time we do, because it just exudes that All Hallow's Eve, creepy feeling. This story embodies the 31st. of October. I love it.
James, it's awesome you got a chance to visit! It wasn't much, but you do kind of get an eerie feeling when looking into that stream and the surrounding countryside during the autumn...

"Side note: although James’ did an excellent video, having lived right next to the town and having gone to high school there, I can safely say that the town is pretty unremarkable, and frankly not worth putting time to visit. I honestly wish that place was as interesting as James portrays it to be."

You're just trying to keep all the marauding headless horsemen ghosts to yourself, no deal dude, i'm totally going.

BRAVO, great vid James!

Looks awesome !! I s¿wish I didn't live soo far awayy !!! :D Great video

You know how to tell a story !!!

You gave me chills in some parts of the video !!!

Good work !!!

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just looking at sleepy hollow through your camera gives me chills

My wife's family claims to be ancestors of one Washington Irving - dunno if it's true, but sounds cool. Reppin' Texas, ya'll. Check out S.A. we got our own haunted histories!

I saw the movie.I didn't know until now that the Sleepy hollow was a real place outside of the new york city.What a scary place.If i visit the New York I will go the sleepy hollow.

this is one of my favorite vids on this site thanks for posting mike...

Just wanted to clarify a few things that Joshua61991 was commenting on:

The town of Sleepy Hollow in NY is not Tarrytown. Sleepy Hollow used to be called North Tarrytown before changing it to Sleepy Hollow in the late 90's. There is still a Tarrytown right next to it (which is where I live currently), which is affiliated with the town of Greenburgh as Sleepy Hollow is to Mount Pleasant. I'm not sure what the heck Joshua61991 is talking about when he says they changed their name to Westchester, as Westchester County is just that, a county, which is comprised of a whole bunch of towns, including Sleepy Hollow.

In other words, the place James visited is indeed Sleepy Hollow, which is where Washington Irving himself is buried (I forget whether that was mentioned in the video). Now whether that exact area was the place the book took place in, well I'm not sure, but its perhaps as close as you can get to the real thing.

Side note: although James' did an excellent video, having lived right next to the town and having gone to high school there, I can safely say that the town is pretty unremarkable, and frankly not worth putting time to visit. I honestly wish that place was as interesting as James portrays it to be.

Thanks for the video James. New England just has a haunting appeal to it, I don't really know what it is but it's definitely there in the small towns. Many Lovecraft stories took place in New England and just add to the creepiness of the area.

Great video James. You know, I didn't realize till watching this video that Sleepy Hallow was a real place either...lol

I totally remember the Disney version of this story. Great movie.

All those fall colors...I HATE LIVING IN LOUISIANA!!!!!!!!!

lol. Starting at 5:53, James cites the opening dialogue from "Monsters Crash The Pajama Party". Not a diss either. I would not have even known about that movie most likely if James never reviewed it.

Of course, that also sounds like something from the Sleepy Hollow book so maybe "Monsters Crash The Pajama Party" borrowed from it?

No clue. Anyhow, Tarrytown looks pretty.

I really hate to bust your bubble guys but that is NOT sleepy hollow.

The ACTUAL TOWN of Sleepy Hollow changed thier name to Westchester to avoid too many tourists, that place you went to AVGN is Tarrytown, they changed thier name to Sleepy Hollow in 1997 and made fake land marks to fit the story. However Westchester (also in NY) still does have the sleepy hollow land marks, but they make nothing of it because the town never wanted any attention. I've passed through with little thought of it until I saw this video, it pisses me off that Tarrytown takes credit for the story when they basically just shipped shit in to make it look like the book was talking about it.

Thought you guys ought to know before you go tromping about wasting your money on a fake gimmick.

I really would love to go there one day. Just to walk around. It would be cool to see the church and river. Nice video and history on the town.

I'm surprised Sleepy Hollow isn't completely ruined by tourism and tourist traps like Salem, MA. When something's that steeped in history it's bound to happen, but I guess since Sleepy Hollow is so tucked away upstate and since many people probably don't know it's a real town, they still enjoy some anonynimity. You can't help but know Salem from history class and now Salem's overrun by everyone capitalizing on "The Witch City." Even real witches - neo-Pagans and Wiccans - use it for their gain and set up shop there. It's kinda sad but I still love that town (on every day OTHER than Halloween!)
Sleepy Hollow's yet another destination I have to add to my bucket list. Thanks for sharing this video, James!

Oh my gosh, Sleepy Hollow exicts... i wanna visit it sometime :D
But is the legend of Sleepy Hollow real to as the city?, if i were Icabod Craig i would be scared as shit, but what an awesome book..
I have watched the Tim Burton version and the Disney version, and i was scared as shit... but still cool :)

Very cool stuff, some stories are based on little truth, kind of like silent hill, there is this place called Centralia PA, and it has some of the attributes, minus the monsters, =)

Makes me wish I was living on the east coast instead of the west. Just so I could visit this place.