Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman is supposed to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball during the Revolutionary War. Strangely enough, that actually happened. Just days after the Battle of White Plains in 1776, Continental Army Maj. Gen. William Heath recorded American cannon fire that “took off…

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