Not far from a small market town on the Hudson lies a quiet valley called Sleepy Hollow — a drowsy, dreamy place where the people are given to strange beliefs, trances and visions, and where the whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. The dominant spirit of the region is said to be a figure on horseback, without a head.

This classic short story by Washington Irving is read aloud here in full, from beginning to end. Settle in and listen.

Read in full: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving.

Text: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving (public domain), from Project Gutenberg. Artwork: Art Institute of Chicago, public domain (CC0): Carleton E. Watkins; Daniel Hudson Burnham, American, 1846–1912; Designed by Lockwood de Forest (American, 1850–1932); Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863); German; Jean Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901); Likely George Parker (English, active 1834-died 1868); Moseley Isaac Danforth (American, 1800-1862); Thomas Hudson (English, 1701-1779); Thomas Hudson (English, 1701–1779); Tosa Mitsuoki.
Narration is synthetic (AI-generated) voice.

About the channel: Classic short stories read aloud: full audiobook readings of Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson and more.

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Genghis Khan died in 1227. A hundred and fifty years later, his name still decided who was allowed to rule Asia — and the most powerful man alive was not on the list. In 1393, in the city of Baghdad, a mint struck a silver coin for Timur. It carried three things. A date, a mint, and a name. The name was not his. He would go on to take Delhi, sack Damascus, and capture an Ottoman sultan on the field at Ankara, and the silver leaving his mints would still carry another man’s name. Timurid court chronicles do trace his father’s line back to Tumbinai. No written evidence from Timur’s own lifetime, or from any time before it, makes that link directly. That is the most contested thing in this story, and the coin is the one document in it that no court historian could edit.

Every factual claim in this video is sourced. Where the sources disagree, the video says so instead of picking the tidier version. Where something is a reconstruction rather than a record, it is named as one.

Archive photographs, manuscript pages and coin images via Wikimedia Commons, the Royal Collection Trust and Numista, under their respective terms; the full per-image licence list and the numbered source table are kept with the production files.

Thumbnail images: silver dinar of Timur, Baghdad mint AH 795, photograph by Classical Numismatic Group, CC BY-SA 2.5. Forensic reconstruction of Timur by M. M. Gerasimov, 1941; photograph by Wikimedia user shakko, coloured by Wikimedia user पाटलिपुत्र, CC BY-SA 3.0. Both via Wikimedia Commons. This thumbnail is a derivative work and is itself licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

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The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
by Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936)

These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion.. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little success, to convert the natives of the new world. (Summary by Esther)

Total running time: 3:09:21

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