In our childhood, we've all heard of Washington Irving's story, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. But who could ever know there was truth behind it. You see, the story wasn't a tall tale, but instead, a memoir of the horrors he and his family witnessed at the turn of the century. The Revolutionary war was not all that it seemed - its secrets went to much greater depths than man could ever know.

It all started in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Men and women were being hanged or burned left and right after accusations of witchcraft surfaced. While many were innocents, a true coven existed. One of light and one of dark, each member perished at the hands of fearful villagers. What was the reason they were discovered? The history books will never tell you but the villagers had found that the dark witches were creating beings that feasted on blood...controlling them with dark magic with plans to attack the city. Unbeknownst to them, the pure witches had plans to take them all out and deliver salvation to their town. Only they hadn't made it that far, burning to a crisp much before they'd accomplished anything. A single witch form the dark coven, one with evil intentions, escaped into the world, vowing to wreak havoc on the mortal world when her very chance came. Ravena Crowe would have her revenge and she cursed the men who'd destroyed her world, promising to murder each of their descendants. 

Ravena followed the very descendants of those who murdered her coven and family, straight to Sleepy Hollow, New York. It was there that she thrived in the woods, speaking with evil spirits as she created more of her blood-drinking monsters to stir up problems in the city: the vampires. As she kept her eye on the families who took her coven down(the Van Tassels, Van Brunts, Van Garretts, and Lancasters), she began to cook up a plan to destroy the city and take the colonies for herself. Her answer came in the form of the Revolutionary War and the German hessians that came to fight. She found one particularly murderous brute who's head had been torn clear off. From his body, she resurrected a demon himself. Some say he is death himself. Hundreds he murdered, defeating the Patriots to near extinction. Holding onto his head, Ravena had complete control of the very being that was going to help her seek revenge.

Ichabod Crane fought for the Patriots loyally, unknowingly having been the chosen one - one of pure heart and good intentions- who could take down the headless horseman that terrorized the village of Sleepy Hollow. He grew power hungry, seeking out Ravena in her den in the woods to take her own head with him. With her death came his freedom from her hold, leaving him to be obeyed by no one. Ichabod was the city's only hope. After a bloody battle, he took the head of the hessian once more, burying him to rest, body apart from the head. With the help of his childhood crush, Katrina Van Tassel(a powerful wiccan), he enchanted it so that the hessian would never again be raised. 

Some say Ichabod married Katrina. Unfortunately, he did not have a happy ending as the hero of the town...not with her anyway. Many of the city's surviving residents moved away, including the Van Tassel family. Ichabod married another and had children, carrying on his name until his death at eighty years of age. And with him died the legend of the horseman. Or so it was thought....

2016 Sleepy Hollow

Evil forces have been at it again, stirring the corpse of the horseman. He has risen in search of his head, stopping at nothing to find it. While his sightings have been few in numbers now, they increase each day...as do the decapitations. No one is safe here, perhaps not even the unknown evil wiccan who has raised him. If he manages to find his head, he'll open the gates of hell, allowing three other horsemen to escape. Now he comes for those very same families who he was sent after in the first place - the Van Tassels, Van Brunts, Van Garretts, and Lancasters. This time, he's added one more name too: crane.  No one is safe, which means heads are gonna roll.


_{This plot is loosely based around the Sleepy Hollow movie, TV Show and book by Washington Irving. SYHM claims no rights or affiliations to the aforementioned. However, all plots developed here are credited to the admins and the members.}