50 Fun Facts About Sleepy Hollow (TV Series)

In Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is cut down on a battlefield before his enchanted sleep; which conflict was he fighting?

The American Revolution is where Crane, a captain spying for George Washington, beheads the Horseman while taking a mortal wound himself. A spell then keeps him asleep for more than two centuries.

In Sleepy Hollow's pilot, the Headless Horseman is unmasked as which of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Death is the rider Crane beheaded in 1781, and he wants his skull back because it would let him summon the other three Horsemen. Crane and Abbie recover the head before he does.

In Sleepy Hollow's first-season finale, the sin eater Henry Parrish turns out to be which relative of Ichabod Crane?

His son Jeremy spent two centuries trapped in a coffin and blames his parents for it. Once unmasked, Henry buries Ichabod alive in return.

Sleepy Hollow borrows Ichabod Crane's centuries-long sleep from which other Washington Irving story?

Rip Van Winkle dozes off in the Catskills after drinking with mysterious Dutchmen and wakes 20 years later. The series stretches that nap to more than two centuries.

Which English actor, later seen in HBO's Watchmen, plays the time-displaced soldier Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow?

Tom Mison trained at the Webber Douglas Academy, where a speech coach advised him to aim for period pieces. Sleepy Hollow then cast him as a man from 1781.

Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills of Sleepy Hollow guest-starred in a 2015 Halloween crossover with which crime procedural?

Bones sent its sceptical scientist Temperance Brennan to examine a 200-year-old headless corpse beside the two Witnesses. The story finished on Sleepy Hollow, where she mistook Greek fire for napalm.

In Sleepy Hollow's third-season finale, Abbie Mills gives up her soul to power which mythical object?

Pandora's box only works with the soul of a Witness inside, so Abbie steps forward and an ancient god is left mortal. Ichabod carries on without her for one final season.

In Sleepy Hollow's second season, a cursed coin is blamed for turning which general against George Washington?

Benedict Arnold is the show's proof of what the coin does: it corrupts whoever holds it. Henry Parrish slips the same coin to Jenny Mills to set her against the new sheriff.

Timothy Busfield plays which Founding Father in Sleepy Hollow, a mentor Ichabod Crane found arrogant and eccentric?

Benjamin Franklin is delighted, when a time-travelling Abbie meets him, to hear how famous he still is. Crane only worked with him because George Washington ordered it.

Which Harold & Kumar star plays Andy Brooks, the Sleepy Hollow officer who dies in the pilot and returns undead?

John Cho plays him as a remorseful walking corpse after Brooks has his neck broken in the first episode. Even dead, he keeps trying to protect Abbie Mills.

Which US network aired all four seasons of Sleepy Hollow, launching the drama on a Monday night in 2013?

Fox renewed the series only weeks after its premiere drew about 10 million viewers. By the fourth and final season the average had slipped to about 3 million.

Which actress, Rachel Robinson in the baseball film 42, plays police lieutenant Abbie Mills in Sleepy Hollow?

Nicole Beharie trained at Juilliard after a childhood spent partly in Nigeria, Panama and the UK, where her father's Foreign Service work took the family. She left when Abbie died in season three.

In Sleepy Hollow's first season, where is Ichabod Crane's wife Katrina trapped, reaching him only in dreams?

Purgatory holds Katrina because her own coven handed her over as punishment for saving Crane's life. To get her out, Abbie Mills has to agree to take her place.

At the start of Sleepy Hollow, Abbie Mills is about to leave town for training with which agency?

The FBI course at Quantico was Abbie's way out of town until her mentor was killed and she stayed to fight the Horseman. She finally completes it between seasons two and three.

In Sleepy Hollow's early episodes, Abbie Mills's estranged sister Jenny is living in what kind of institution?

A psychiatric hospital took Jenny in because she insisted she had seen a demon in the woods, while Abbie, who saw it too, denied everything. Between stays, Jenny trained in combat abroad and hunted occult artifacts.

Before spying for George Washington, Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane reached America serving which country's forces?

Britain brought Crane to America in its own ranks before he switched sides to spy for the Colonists. A British general once offered him passage home in return for the names of rebel spies.

In Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills are the two Witnesses foretold in which New Testament book?

Revelation casts the pair as its two Witnesses, and the show later adds that they must face seven Tribulations. Crane learns the first of them was the demon behind the Horseman.

Which actor, the voice of Mr. Krabs, plays Abbie Mills's mentor Sheriff August Corbin in Sleepy Hollow?

Clancy Brown plays a sheriff who is beheaded by the Horseman in the opening episode, yet keeps returning as a ghost to advise Abbie. His secret files on the town's mysteries become the heroes' archive.

Which original MADtv cast member and former 7 Up pitchman plays Captain Frank Irving in Sleepy Hollow?

Orlando Jones plays a sceptical police captain who cuts his finger and signs a lawyer's contract in blood, handing over his soul. The character departs after two seasons.

Which demon, named after an ancient god linked to child sacrifice, is Sleepy Hollow's main villain for two seasons?

Moloch raised the Headless Horseman to start the Apocalypse, then died at the hands of his own protégé, who realised his master saw him as expendable. With him dead, that apocalypse cannot happen.

In Sleepy Hollow's first season, a secret society of which soldiers steals a book that opens a doorway to Hell?

Hessians aligned with the Horseman seize the Lesser Key of Solomon and start the ritual, but Abbie Mills throws the book into the pit and the doorway closes.

In Sleepy Hollow's first season, the Headless Horseman is lured into a magical cell built by which Founding Father?

Thomas Jefferson built the chamber, but it catches the Horseman only because the heroes bait it with his own skull, which nothing they tried could destroy.

Under interrogation in Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman is revealed to be which former friend of Ichabod Crane?

Abraham Van Brunt was engaged to Katrina until she broke it off for Crane, and he became the Horseman to take his revenge. He still believes he was meant to be the hero of the story.

In Sleepy Hollow's episode John Doe, a sick boy who speaks only Middle English comes from which early settlement?

Roanoke was not wiped out in this telling: the whole colony was carried into another dimension, sick but unable to die. Returning the boy to his village cures the illness on both sides.

In Sleepy Hollow's third episode, a Mohawk spirit is behind a string of suicides; what is its nursery-tale name?

The Sandman here is the spirit Ro'kenhronteys, and the only way to stop him is to enter his dream world. Crane and Abbie Mills survive by confronting and atoning for their own past guilt.

Which monster, stitched from the remains of fallen soldiers, does Ichabod Crane revive in Sleepy Hollow's second season?

The Kindred had been abandoned unfinished by its maker, who never found the means to give it life. Crane supplies the missing piece: the Headless Horseman's own severed head.

In Sleepy Hollow, which mythical monster guards the Sword of Methuselah, yet poses no danger to the Headless Horseman?

A gorgon has filled its lair with statues of earlier intruders, but the Horseman is immune to its curse. Crane and Abbie Mills trick him into killing it for them.

In Sleepy Hollow's second season, a demonic version of which storybook figure abducts ten-year-old Sarah Lancaster?

The Pied Piper is tied to the Lancasters by a family curse, and his bone flute puts Abbie Mills into a trance when Crane plays it. She later breaks the flute rather than hand it over.

In Sleepy Hollow's second season, Henry Parrish tries to awaken the town's witches using a copy of which American icon?

The Liberty Bell copy needs more power than Henry has, so Katrina finishes the ritual for him. He is killed when Crane and Abbie Mills step in.

In Sleepy Hollow, Joe Corbin, whose father mentored Abbie Mills, is cursed to become which monster of legend?

A wendigo is what Henry Parrish's curse makes of Joe until a Native American artifact cures him. The beast returns in season three, and Jenny Mills is forced to shoot him.

The real village that gives Sleepy Hollow its name lies in which state?

New York is home to the real Sleepy Hollow, which had under 10,000 residents at the 2010 census, while the show's version claims roughly 144,000. The local paper once listed the many liberties the series took.

In Sleepy Hollow's final season, the young new Witness Molly is which relative of Agent Diana Thomas?

Her daughter Molly had not spoken for weeks, ever since Abbie Mills died, and breaks her silence only when she meets Ichabod Crane. Diana stands in as his partner because Molly is too young.

Which legendary object does billionaire Malcolm Dreyfuss rebuild to become immortal in Sleepy Hollow's final season?

The Philosopher's Stone had been split into four pieces on George Washington's orders, and Dreyfuss hunts them down. The same stone turns out to be the source of Crane's own return from the grave.

Twilight's Nikki Reed joined Sleepy Hollow's third season as which historical figure, recast as a secret agent?

Betsy Ross is no mere seamstress here: she is an old flame of Crane's who fought supernatural threats for George Washington. Her cutlass later marks the way out when Abbie Mills is stranded in another world.

Which Australian actor, Denethor in The Lord of the Rings films, plays the sin eater Henry Parrish in Sleepy Hollow?

John Noble began as a recurring guest and was promoted to the main cast for season two, once his character had been unmasked as a villain. He came back for guest spots in the final season.

Which actress, Rue in The Hunger Games, plays the wheelchair-using Macey Irving in Sleepy Hollow's first season?

Amandla Stenberg plays a teenager who is briefly possessed by a demon and kills while under its control. Her father, the police captain, confesses to the murders himself to protect her.

In Sleepy Hollow's final season, Ichabod Crane's new partner Diana Thomas works for which federal agency?

Homeland Security agent Diana is pulled into Crane's world when a demon kills her partner in front of her. The series ends with the President making her a full agent of the secret Agency 355.

In Sleepy Hollow's series finale, the President grants Ichabod Crane what, which he first applied for in season three?

American citizenship had slipped away once before, when Crane missed a key interview because he was busy trying to save Abbie Mills. By the finale he has also sold his soul, a bargain he is sure he can undo.

Why would killing Ichabod Crane also destroy the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow's first season?

Their blood mixed in battle as both men fell in 1781, binding the two lives together. A secret brotherhood asks Crane to take poison for that very reason, until a sin eater finds another way to cut the tie.

Which possession of George Washington does Ichabod Crane wake up with, and later mine for secrets, in Sleepy Hollow?

His Bible hides enough secrets that a body-hopping demon threatens Captain Irving's family to get hold of it. It also points the heroes to a map buried in Washington's secret tomb.

Before crossing the Atlantic as a soldier, Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane taught history at which university?

Oxford made Crane a professor before the army made him a soldier, and his knowledge of history and supernatural lore is what makes him invaluable in the present. He had earlier studied at Eton College.

Sleepy Hollow filmed its first two seasons mainly in and around the city of Wilmington in which state?

North Carolina hosted the pilot too, shot in Charlotte, Gastonia and Salisbury, before production moved to Georgia for the last two seasons. Only the aerial shots show the real village.

Which Swedish actress, seen as Nadia in Dexter, plays the witch Katrina Crane in Sleepy Hollow?

Katia Winter was born in Stockholm and moved to London after high school to study at a stage school. Her character is stabbed by her own husband at the end of season two.

Which director of the Underworld films co-created Sleepy Hollow and directed its pilot episode?

Len Wiseman directed the opening episodes of three series: Hawaii Five-0, Sleepy Hollow and Lucifer. All three were picked up, with other directors taking over.

Sleepy Hollow creators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci earlier co-created which sci-fi series with J. J. Abrams?

Fringe ended in 2013, the year Sleepy Hollow began, and one of its stars moved straight across to play the new show's sin eater.

Which ancient Sumerian god, played by Peter Mensah, is the chief villain of Sleepy Hollow's third season?

The Hidden One once ruled humanity until he was betrayed and cast into the underworld, and he returns intending to purge mankind. Jenny Mills kills him once he has been made mortal.

Which creature does the boy Jeremy Crane summon in Sleepy Hollow, which later hunts the coven that disowned his mother?

A golem answered Jeremy's call centuries ago and is still seeking revenge in the present day. The heroes destroy it, only to receive a threatening message from a far greater demon.

In Sleepy Hollow's third season, alchemist Dr. Japeth Leeds mutates himself into which monster of American folklore?

The Jersey Devil turns out to be a man who used alchemy on himself, and he plans to help restore a fallen god with a sacred hourglass. Abbie Mills destroys him with a lightning rod.

Which actor, Daniel Faraday in Lost, plays the soul-selling billionaire Malcolm Dreyfuss in Sleepy Hollow?

Jeremy Davies plays a tech mogul who traded his soul for success and spends the season hunting a loophole to stay out of Hell. A demon drags him there anyway once he is made mortal.

Sleepy Hollow turns which real gap in Washington, D.C.'s lettered grid into Benjamin Banneker's trap for demons?

J Street really is missing from the capital's map, because I and J were once indistinguishable when written. In the show Banneker designed the gap as a snare, and his glyphs later seal in the Headless Horseman.