A young Washington Irving mingles fact with fiction to create a worldwide literary sensation in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Using wacky pseudonyms and wild publicity stunts, he borrows the actual story of the van Tassel family of Tarrytown and the unfortunate death of a Hessian soldier beheaded during the Battle of White Plains to produce America’s first published ghost story. Then, a unique architectural style inspires a cult and more, as we reconstruct the history of the hauntingly beautiful and beautifully haunted octagonal Armour-Stiner house of Irvington, NY.