'Sleepy Hollow' Pilot Films In North Carolina

SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. – Sleepy Hollow is coming to life on the small screen.

A pilot based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" has begun filming in North Carolina. Photo Credit: *Wayne Hinshaw/The Salisbury Post*

by Meredith Shamburger

03/20/2013 2:00 a.m.

Film crews are working hard to turn a North Carolina town into their own version of Sleepy Hollow, according to The Salisbury Post.

Shooting of the Fox pilot, which has Ichabod Crane helping a Sleepy Hollow detective solve a murder, continues all this week. Crews have transformed a local church into “The Old North Church,” a nod to Sleepy Hollow's famed Old Dutch Church and Washington Irving's famed story.

The normally pristine church lawn was turned into a cemetery for the show.

“The transformation is bringing in fake headstones, vines, wrought-iron fencing and “weeds” — elements that in the miracle of television will create a haunting nighttime scene, especially with the historic church and its giant oak tree,” The Salisbury Post noted.

Click here to see more photos taken from the pilot's set by Wayne Hinshaw.

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