No, North Carolina’s wild horses were not wrapped in insulation
Margherita Bassi
created: Feb. 7, 2026, 2:12 p.m. | updated: Feb. 7, 2026, 11 p.m.
We recently saw a Facebook post featuring a series of images of people on a cold beach bundling up horses with what looked like duct tape and insulation material.
The post, tagged at Corolla Wild Horse Beach in Corolla, North Carolina, has about 10,000 reactions and 5,800 comments, and has been shared 2,000 times on social media.
“Today, the nonprofit organization Outer Banks People helped prepare the wild horses for low temperatures and possible snow.
Using insulation material to keep horses warm surprised our resident equestrian—but perhaps desperate times had truly called for desperate measures.
One of the fake images of volunteers wrapping horses in insulation material.
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