Edgar Allan Poe, who lived his last few years in a cottage 20 miles from Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, rises from the dead for an evening of mystery and macabre. Poe, portrayed by local storyteller David Neilsen, will read favorites from his own stories and poems.  This event always draws a crowd – purchase tickets in advance to avoid... Read more →

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow comes alive in this 1922 silent movie starring Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane. To make it feel like a trip back in time to the silent movie era, Jim Keyes will accompany the antics of Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel, Brom Bones, and the Headless Horseman on the magnificent church organ. When: October 9,... Read more →

Be prepared to be amazed! Celebrity mentalist and magician, Ken Salaz, will read your mind and evoke the supernatural in a powerful and mysterious Halloween performance at Lyndhurst. With seamless fluidity, he is able to merge the ordinary with the impossible with mind-reading, sleight of hand, and other tricks! If you have a taste for an... Read more →

Master storytellers offer dramatic performances of Washington Irving’s classic ghostly tale, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", featuring the Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, and Katrina Van Tassel. Flavored with live spooky organ music, the spellbinding storytelling captivates all audiences. This is, in fact, the church and... Read more →

In his "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Washington Irving said that Sleepy Hollow was bewitched by a "high German doctor." Some believe Irving was referring to "Hulda the witch", a healer who had emigrated from Bavaria and who lived in what is today the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. If you have ever hiked the Witch's Spring Trail, then you... Read more →