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Sleepy Hollow in upstate New York has major ties to the other side, if is home to the Headless Horseman. Picture: Getty

Sleepy Hollow, USA 

It may have competition from Salem, Massachusetts but Sleepy Hollow in Upstate New York proudly lays claim to the title of America's most haunted town. It’s all thanks to Headless Horseman, the iconic character from Washington Irving’s novel The Legend of Sleepy Hollow who is still said to gallop around the area come nightfall. The village (next to the town of Tarrytown) lies just an hour north of Manhattan and makes a particularly festive day-trip for New Yorkers at Halloween when the town is festooned in all its spooky finery. Most of the action occurs around Sleepy Hollow’s cemetery which is where Irving is buried and is listed on America’s national register of historic places.