With its shallow inlets, North Carolina’s Outer Banks became a haven for many pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The most notable was the Pirate Blackbeard. Blackbeard called Bath, North Carolina, his home and spent his time as a pirate ransacking and pillaging unsuspecting ships off the banks of North Carolina. Before he was
The skull of the infamous pirate Blackbeard is said to have been plated in silver and used as a punchbowl. But how did Blackbeard’s skull meet such an irreverent end?