Around town Mr. Murray has become quite the figure in Charleston, to the point where he even got an entire event named after time. The Bill Murray Look-A-Like Polar Bear Plunge takes place once a year on January 1st, the morning after New Year’s Eve. Everyone who participates dresses up in their favorite Bill Murray themed costumes, sprints into the ice-cold winter water for a few moments, and quickly returns to shore to mend their hang-overs with a little hair of the dog.

But, Bill Murry isn’t your typical local claim to fame. To Charleston he is much more than that – he is an icon.
Here is why everyone around town loves Bill Murry so much:

1. Around Charleston, Bill Murry co-owns two Charleston restaurants, Harold’s Cabin and Rutledge Cab Co., where he claims to be the CFO (chief fun officer) of both.
2. He owns a house on Sullivan’s island, Folly Beach’s coastal neighbor.
3. One account of a local Charlestonian says that once she saw Bill Murry at a restaurant and she sent him a shot, in response he sent her a plate of wild rice before exiting the restaurant.
4. In November of 2017 he showed up at Charleston’s Music Farm and bought out all the tickets, and then walked down the line handing them out to everyone waiting, just for fun.
5. Bill Murray is also part owner of the local Baseball Team, The Charleston River Dogs. Once, after a game was rained out, he turned one of the tarps on the field into his own personal slip’n’slide.

*Don’t we all wish we were on that level in life?

*Check out the video of Bill Murray doing a slip’n’slide trick here