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Famous ghost stories featuring scary sounds include Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," which is centered around the insistent sound of a beating heart, and the classic tale of "The Headless Horseman," which includes the sound of a horse's hooves and the clatter of the horseman's own head.

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00:19long time ago in a little town called Sleepy Hollow, there was a school teacher named Ichabod Crane.

00:26Now Ichabod was a tall skinny man who was quick to use a ruler on naughty scholars.

00:31Ichabod didn't live in the town of Sleepy Hollow.

00:34To get to his house, he had to ride his skinny old horse through the woods.

00:39He had heard stories that there was some kind of a ghost that prowled through the woods.

00:45Being a learned man, he put no stock in such tales.

00:50One night Ichabod stayed in town very late at a party.

00:54As the evening wore on after lots of food and lots of cider, the folks started telling ghost stories.

01:01And they got around to talking about the ghost in the woods outside of town.

01:06The story was that the ghost was a rider on a big horse that actually snorted flames and smoke.

01:14And the rider, he was a huge man who had no head.

01:24Finally, it got to be very late and it was time to go home.

01:27Now, old Ichabod wasn't exactly scared, but then again, he wasn't too keen on riding through those woods this late at night.

01:35Well, he got on his skinny old horse and started off for home.

01:39As he rode through the woods, the full moon shone with an eerie light making all kinds of spooky shadows.

01:46An owl hooting in the distance didn't make him feel any better, so he urged his old horse to go a little faster.

01:54What was that? Was it a dog? Maybe a wolf?

02:04Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a strange orange light, and it was coming straight toward him.

02:10Now, Ichabod was terrified. He tried to make his old horse go faster, but the strange orange light was coming closer and closer.

02:18Could it be? Yes, it was a rider on a horse.

02:22The horse seemed to breathe smoke and flames, and now the schoolmaster could see better.

02:27The horseman had no head.

02:29In fact, the rider's head was carried before him on the saddle, and he was laughing.

02:35The craziest laugh you've ever heard.

02:42The headless horseman was coming very close to Ichabod now.

02:45He could feel the heat from the horse's fiery breath.

02:48They raced through the woods. The goblin was laughing. Ichabod was screaming.

02:53It was some wild scene as they raced along the little trail that led to a little bridge near the church.

02:58Just as they came to the bridge, the headless horseman suddenly stopped.

03:02His horse reared up. And what happened next is the scariest part of the story.

03:09The goblin rose in his stirrups and threw his head straight at Ichabod.

03:15The next day, Ichabod's old horse was found near his master's gate.

03:25But the saddle was missing.

03:27Later on, down by the old wooden bridge, they found Ichabod's hat.

03:32And close beside it, a shattered pumpkin.

03:38He had a chance to get melted.

03:39It was a good thing.

03:43To be continued...

03:45He made a new vampire.

03:46One, two, three, three.

03:48He ran away.

03:49He ran away.

03:50He ran away.

03:51He ran away.

03:52I was trying to find him.

03:53He ran away.

03:55He ran away.

03:56I'm so hungry.

03:58He ran away.

Campfire Ghost Stories - The Headless Horseman (Washington Irving)

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