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2 unusual facts about Sleepy Hollow


Cherise Haugen

Cherise Vonae Haugen (born 1966), is a model and actress from Sleepy Hollow, Illinois.

Sleepy Hollow, Illinois

Various streets in the village are named after characters in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.


Herman Frasch

The bodies of both he and his widow, Elizabeth Blee Frasch, were brought to the United States and re-interred in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York following the death of Elizabeth in Paris in 1924 .

Mandalay Entertainment

Mandalay Pictures is a film production company whose productions include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Donnie Brasco, Seven Years in Tibet, Wild Things, Les Misérables, The Deep End of the Ocean, Sleepy Hollow, The Score, and Into the Blue.


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Samuel Young

Samuel Youngs (1760–1839), New York assemblyman from Westchester County, inspiration for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Samuel Youngs

He served as a lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War, and was honoured, along with other residents of Tarrytown who fought in that war, with a monument erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

The Curse of the Cat People

Lewton grew up not far from Tarrytown, where the story is set, and was fond of ghost stories such as "The Headless Horseman" (Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") which is cited in The Curse of the Cat People.