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Sleepy Hollow - timeline
January: A Hessian Horseman Mercenary is killed by militia. The men chop off his head with his own sword and bury it with his body in the Western Woods. (The Western Woods of the Hudson Highlands hamlet of Sleepy Hollo)
The Headless Horseman starts attacking the locals. (Sleepy Hollow)
October: The Headless Horseman (The ghost of a Hessian Mercenary) begins haunting Sleepy Hollow New York. Constable Ichabod Crane is sent to investigate. (Hudson Highlands hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, U.S.A.)
Ichabod Crane investigates a series of gruesome murders. (Sleepy Hollow, nr New York)