History Series / SleepyHollow

* SpottingTheThread: When Ichabod enters Purgatory, his father [[spoiler: tells him that the British had won the Battle of Yorktown. He replies that in reality the British lost. It turned out that reality presented to him is false.]]

** The Burning of Washington during the War of 1812 was the result of a MysticalPlague connected to a Djinn that caused the afflicted to combust. The storm that saved city was caused when Paul Jennings summoned one to flood the Djinn‘s lair and strike it with lightning.

** The Burning of Washington during the War of 1812 was the result of a MysticalPlague connected to a Djinn that caused the afflicted to combust. The storm that saved it was caused when Paul Jennings summoned one to flood the Djinn‘s lair and strike it with lightning.

* DemonicPossession: Ancitif possesses Macy to threaten Ichabod to hand over Washington’s Bible. In the past, he also posses Jenny in an attempt to kill Abbie.

%%* SesquipedalianSmith: Ichabod Crane.
%%* SherlockScan: Ichabod pulls one on his captor.

* DemonicPossession: Ancitif.

** The Despair Creature does this by capturing and imprisoning its victim in a cocoon. Then it creates the illusion of a spiritual trial whlie feeding on its captive's despair to gain power to capture others. The victim becomes so overpowered by their despair that they commit suicide.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Although Sleepy Hollow is in upstate New York, the series is filmed in North Carolina.

** The Weeping Lady/Mary Wells appears in black with a veil covering her face. The veil is made from the same material as the shaw she wore in life. She able to phase through solid objects like a traditional ghost but after she does, it becomes soaking wet. She also has the ability to create a portal to the Blind Brook River to drown her victims.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Abbie's mentor, Sheriff Corbin, the man who'd been secretly keeping files on the weirdness in Sleepy Hollow is back as a ghost she can converse with]].

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The receptionist of the cafe Colonial times speaks like this. Ichabod calls him out for speaking like this as it is historically inaccurate.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Draguar are un-dead warriors that swear to fulfil their duty beyond death. They spend their days in below ground and are unstoppable. They can be summoned by using a special stone and can be destroyed using [[spoiler: GreekFire]].

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Draguar are un-dead warriors that swear to fulfil their duty beyond death. They spend their days in below ground and are unstoppable. They can be summoned using a special stone and can be destroyed using [[spoiler: GreekFire]].

* FantasyAmericana

%%* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Brooks]].

%% * PreviouslyOn

This is not to be mistaken for the 1999 Creator/TimBurton [[Film/SleepyHollow1999 film]] of the [[NamesTheSame same name]].

%%* OffscreenTeleportation: Brooks.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Horseman's superheated broadaxe.

* HornyDevil: A Succubus shows up in Season 2, conjured by War to drain people of their life force [[spoiler:to feed the infant that Moloch has incarnated as.]]

* TheyFightCrime: He's a time-tossed soldier-professor. She's a supernaturally touched badass police officer. They fight the Apocalypse!

* WunzaPlot: One's a cop, one's a time-lost professor/Revolutionary spy.

** No-one was ''ever'' burned as a witch in America, or at least not in the British Colonies. Hanged, yes - in accordance with British laws concerning witchcraft - burned, ''no,'' and certainly not as late as the latter half of the 18th century. The last recorded execution of an American 'witch' was in 1692, nearly a century before the plot of this show starts, and witchcraft had ceased to be a capital crime in England and all its territories by 1736.

* {{Crossover}}: With, of all shows, ''{{Series/Bones}}''. Somehow, Booth and Brennan managed to avoid seeing anything happen that would totally shake up everything they believed. Abbie and Ichabod go to the Jeffersonian in "The Resurrection in the Remains", where the skeleton of William Howe is found, initially headless, and the ''Bones'' team has to solve a modern day murder before Abbie and Ichabod can take the remains back to Sleey Hollow. The bones then become part of the struggle against Pandora on in "Dead Men Tell no Tales". Oddly, there's an earlier ''Bones'' episode where Hodgins tells Angela to record ''Sleepy Hollow'', and that creates a bit of MindScrew at the same time.

Created by Creator/AlexKurtzman, Creator/RobertoOrci, Creator/PhillipIscove and Creator/LenWiseman (the last-named also directed the pilot and served as second unit director on the season two premiere), and starring Creator/TomMison, Creator/NicoleBeharie, Creator/OrlandoJones, Creator/KatiaWinter, and [[PromotedToOpeningTitles as of season 2]] Creator/LyndieGreenwood and Creator/JohnNoble, ''Sleepy Hollow'' premiered September 16, 2013 on Creator/{{Fox}}. Airing on Mondays at 9:00pm Eastern Time, the show’s a modern-day retelling of Creator/WashingtonIrving[='s=] short story ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow''.

In the fourth season, the show was heavily retooled, with Ichabod being transferred to Washington DC where he joins Agency 355, which was founded by George Washington to fight supernatural threats.

* BookEnds: The use of "[[Music/TheRollingStones Sympathy For The Devil]]" in the pilot and in the season one finale.

* NiceHat: Show up frequently in flashbacks to the Revolutionary era. Often on Crane.

** The 1776 Great Fire of New York was cased by Greek Fire, a fire cannot be extinguish, being used to destroyed the Draguar that General Howe raise to combat the rebel colonialists.

* TimeTravelersAreSpies: During Abbie’s visit to 1781, Ichabod assumes she is a British spy as she knew of the Hessian counterattack that his regiment faced and provides a description of what their leader, the horseman of death, looks like.