Cold, misty nights.
The kind of night where you aren’t sure whether it is your breath that you are seeing
in front of you, or the incessant fog.
The kind of night where you just want to make it home and warm up by the fire but first,
you have to get there.
As you try, you hear the soft clip clopping of hooves in the distance… but they get
louder and louder… and you see a figure…but….it can’t be!
Where is its head?!
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, the channel that loves to do a
bit of theorizing on basically anything and everything because we know that no question
is too stupid and that curiosity didn’t kill the cat – it only made it wiser.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What if The Headless Horseman
was real.
Before we ride on into this video, I want to ask you guys if you have ever seen a ghost!
Let me know in the comments section down below!
So the legend of the Headless Horseman is some kind of unification between American
Folklore and actual history – the way most legends are born!
The headless horseman has become a bit of a horror trope but the story seems to date
back to Dutch settlers along New York State’s Hudson River.
It seems that during the Revolutionary War, Hessian Horseman were deployed by the British
army.
During one battle, a fearsome fighter went into battle on his horse, only to have his
head blown off by a cannon.
The man was said to have been quickly buried in the churchyard of Sleepy Hollow because
the Dutch Settlement was most like the homeland.
Ever since, he is said to ride out at night to seek his head or take the head of someone
else to replace the one he lost…or maybe as a final act of revenge.
A further legend has the headless horseman spiriting away a local townsman….
So…what if this spook was real?
Let’s get one thing straight – the Headless Horseman is scary…sure… he seems pretty
local.
If he was real, he would likely just haunt the town of Sleepy Hollow, which sits in the
Hudson Valley – just a 46 minute drive from Manhattan.
If he did escape and gallop forth, then maybe there is a small chance of the undead spirit
clip clopping on his ghost horse to NYC, although that would likely take the best part of a
day, or at least an afternoon on horseback…so the city of 8.6 million would likely have
time to prepare.
Buttt lets just for fun imagine the headless horseman going rogue in central park, and
riding through a deserted time square, leaving none but a trail of decapitated heads behind
him.
Maybe residents could all evacuate onto boats on the Hudson River and watch as he rides
the shores.
Ghost horseman cant clop on water, can they?
I don’t think so!
Okay, so like the headless horseman is devastated that his head was blown off and is constantly
searching for it or chopping off others heads in revenge.
I get it why he is upset, it’s gnarly….
The act of severing a head is still one of the worst ways humans can envisage death – which
is perhaps why legends of the horseman have stuck around for so long.
It’s a pretty powerful visual.
I’m thinking….why can’t we just make him a new head?
Can we 3D print a lil summin summin for him.
If we knew who he was we could probably do a little head reconstruction?
Would that make him happy or would he be even angrier!
How much danger would we really be in if the horseman was real and would we even know about
it?
For one man and his horse I doubt that he could cause the amount of chaos I alluded
to above…right? in the legend – he searches for his own head, or steals another or spirits
people away.
I guess we would notice how serious he is about this when people started going missing
or headless bodies start being found?
BUT one question – if the headless horseman became such from being peed off about losing
his head, wouldn’t killing others in the same way create a whole new breed of angry
headless spirits?
The Headless milkman, the headless baker, the headless school teacher, the headless
tree surgeon.
Would they not stop until everyone was headless…and what then?
If the headless horseman were real and was able to decapitate an unsuspecting human,
that would a mean that ghosts are real and it would mean they could effectively “GET”
you which would be pretty worrying.
This would extend beyond the realms of just the horseman….
Amid the panic at this revelation, I imagine that seers and spiritualists would be able
to make a quick buck selling anti ghost amulets or protection spells.
Goodbye headless horseman, hello capitalism.
I would say we would need to get a ghost hunter to in to negotiate with the horseman….like….what
can we do to quell his bloody rampage….
But as Ed Warren is dead and Lorraine is pretty old, I am wondering who would be up for the
job?
So, before we wrap up this video, I feel like we need to talk a little more about Sleepy
Hollow.
A whole town out there believes in the legend of the headless horseman….
Listen to this….. editors roll clip.
Right.
Well…if that is the case and he is real, he hasn’t done too much damage in the past
hundred or so years….so why don’t we just leave him to it?
Headless Horsemen deserve peace, too!
Okay, I’m done.
What would you guys do if the headless horseman was real?
Would you run and hide or would you try and negotiate with him?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below….also like.
Before we go I just want to read some comments from the Are White Holes Real Video:
Crossfighter Freddy vs Jason said: What if NASA never existed?
Theo Tomingas Naf said: What if Thomas the Tankengine and his friends were real.
OH MY…how terrifying!
Humans fused with trains.
Living trains.
Getting on a living train….eeergh!
Okay, the comments have taken me to a weird place and it is time to say goodbye!