Sleepy Hollow

The legend of Sleepy Hollow it's situated in a Dutch settlement in a glen called Sleepy Hollow in 1790 and tells the history of a teacher who competes with an other men for the hand of the daughter of a rich farmer.
One day, the teacher leaves a party at the daughter's family house and being pursued by the Headless Horseman. This horseman is a ghost of a German mercenary who was decapitated with his own sword when was jailed in the American Revolutionary War.
The next day they found the hat of the teacher and a pumpkin on a bridge.