The junk yard seen in the movie is real. Several years prior to the film's production, a yard worker was crushed to death by a piece of heavy machinery which was being driven by another employee to move junk cars. Rumors soon arose that the junk yard was haunted by his ghost. Film production had already begun before anyone involved with the movie "learned" of this legend. As a "precautionary measure", a local priest was asked to perform a blessing on the filming location. In appreciation, the production company made a charitable donation to the priest's church. Nothing out of the ordinary happened at first, but it was soon reported that "unexplained lights" were seen floating around the empty set in the late evening and at night. Also several windows of junk cars mysteriously shattered for no apparent reason during the daytime while film crew members were nearby. The priest returned to perform blessings each morning at sunrise. He also went to the nearby cemetery where the yard worker was buried and anointed the stone entrance-way with holy oil (the act of "Holy Unction"). In the Orthodox Christian tradition of "Almsgiving", food and new clothing was purchased and subsequently donated to several local charities near the junk yard. Oddly, no other "unusual incidents" were reported during the production.
The book pages at the end of the movie are song lyrics from television series. One the left page, first paragraph is from The Fall Guy (1981); paragraph two is from a cartoon called Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981); paragraph three is the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (1979); and paragraph four is from The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982).
Billy Aaron Brown's "8 Simple Rules" costar Kaley Cuoco previously starred in "The Hollow" (2004), which was also inspired by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The film features an axe quite prominently and, coincidentally or otherwise, two of the female characters share the first names of real-life axe murderesses. Those characters are Candy (as in Candy Montgomery) and Lizzie (as in Lizzie Borden).
The Hydra is the largest of the 88 modern constellations, measuring 1303 square degrees, and also the longest at over 100 degrees. Its southern end abuts Libra and Centaurus and its northern end borders Cancer. It was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy. It is commonly represented as a water snake. It should not be confused with the similarly named constellation of Hydrus.