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It's Halloween!

By AccuWeather, $content.credit

Last update: October 31, 2009 - 7:25 AM

I grew up in Newtown, Conn., way back in the 50s and 60s. One time just before Halloween (I probably was around 11 or 12 years old), something very strange happened that I cannot explain to this day. It was after dark when my brother and I heard a clop, clop, clop coming from outside. We looked out the window and were startled to see a very large specter that gave all appearances of being the headless horseman on his steed.

This could have been a well-conceived prank, but why? Someone certainly would have had to go to a lot of trouble to create a costume as realistic as that.

Plus, back then there was nothing but farmland, and there just weren't that many people around. I doubt that any more than a handful of folks saw what we saw and maybe no one else saw it. Whatever it was completely vanished, never to be seen again.

Perhaps it really was the headless horseman. What do you think? The weather for trick or treat on Saturday will be pretty decent across most of the country. The only scary tale will be the rain system that will impact the East from the Carolinas to Maine.

BEWARE OF THE HORSEMAN! Story By AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist John Kocet.

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