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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's Thursday afternoon in Murals Inlet, South Carolina, and you are climbing down the steps of one of those old-timey sightseeing trolleys. |
0:16.0 | In front of you is a gigantic 15-foot tall statue of horses fighting. |
0:26.0 | They are up in the air on their hind legs. They're clobbering each other. |
0:28.0 | It looks like one of the horses is about to rip the other horses neck open with its teeth. |
0:33.4 | And there's a guy riding on the back of that angry, |
0:37.2 | hungry horse. |
0:38.7 | He's fighting to hold on for dear life, |
0:41.8 | and he is absolutely naked. It's kind of violent maybe a little |
0:46.6 | disturbing but to me it's home I've known this sculpture all of my life. |
0:52.6 | Catherine Hedgepath is who has taken you to see this statue. |
0:56.3 | She is your guide here. |
0:58.4 | She's a lifelong Myrtle Beach local and the founder of Myrtle Beach |
1:01.9 | History Tours. And once you've taken in and the founder of Myrtle Beach history tours. |
1:03.0 | And once you've taken in an eyeful of this unusual statue, a statue called Fighting Stallions, |
1:10.0 | she'll direct you to turn around. |
1:12.0 | So if you were standing right where that sculpture is and you look across Highway 17, |
1:16.0 | you would see this sort of gated walkway that sort of disappears into the trees. |
1:22.0 | If you walk down that sidewalk, you would... disappears into the trees. |
1:23.0 | If you walk down that sidewalk, you would end up at Adelaya. |
1:27.7 | Set far back from the road, hidden by lush South Carolina gre greenery is Adeliah. |
1:34.0 | Adeliah is a castle. |
1:35.6 | It is made of solid stone, and it's just this medieval looking fortress |
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