The young policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of ghoulish murders. On his arrival, the town council informs him that the three victims were killed in open ground, and the heads had disappeared taken by a headless ghost that is supposedly responsible.
Crane does not believe them and begins his own investigation, until he comes face to face with the horseman. Boarding a room at the home of the town's richest family, the Van Tassels, Crane was attract by their daughter, the mysterious Katrina.
Helped by the orphaned Young Masbeth, whose father was a victim of the Horseman, Crane discovers within the Western Woods both the Horseman's entry point between this world and the beyond, the gnarled Tree of the Dead, and his grave.
He finds the Horseman's skull is missing though the murders continue until Crane uncovers a murky plot revolving around revenge and land rights with the Horseman controlled by Katrina's stepmother, Lady Van Tassel, who sends the killer after her. Following a fight in the local windmill and a stagecoach chase through the woods, Crane eventually frustrate Lady Van Tassel by returning the skull to the Horseman, who regains his head and heads back to hell along with her.
Finally Crane, Katrina and the young Masbeth return to New York to start a new beginning.
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