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The Mysterious Origins of Virginia’s Swimming Ponies

The Mysterious Origins of Virginia’s Swimming Ponies

Update: 2024-07-091
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For one day every July, the Assateague Channel on Virginia’s marshy eastern shore is filled with the bobbing heads of swimming ponies. These feral horses are celebrities in the area, but nobody actually knows exactly how they got there. Atlas Obscura senior editor Gemma Tarlach tells us the story and wrote about it here.

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The Mysterious Origins of Virginia’s Swimming Ponies

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