THE EVERYTHING® PIRATES BOOK by Barb Karg & Arjean Spaite

Author:Barb Karg & Arjean Spaite
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook
Publisher: F+W Publications, Inc.
Published: 2007-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Did Blackbeard really bury his treasure?

No one knows for certain if Blackbeard's alleged buried treasure even exists, and to date nothing has been recovered aside from his prized flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, which is currently being excavated. Toward the end of his life, Blackbeard is said to have emphatically stated “Nobody but me and the Devil knows where my money is buried and the one what lives longest will get it all!”

Almost fifty years ago, author Robert I. Nesmith wrote about his friend and colleague Edward Rowe Snow in a collection of tales entitled Dig for Pirate Treasure. In it, he relates a night that Snow, himself a prolific writer of New England pirate lore, summoned him to his home in Cape Cod on a dark and stormy night to see something very exciting that he'd acquired. What Snow revealed to Nesmith was a box that contained what Snow believed to be the “silver-coated” skull of Edward Teach. According to Snow, the skull was retrieved by a man in Bath, where Blackbeard's head ended up on display after it was removed from the Jane. After being covered in silver, it began a journey of ownership from a college fraternity through several generations of a tavern owner's family where it made occasional appearances in the tavern — as a drinking cup. As a matter of chance, Snow learned of its existence and purchased it for himself. Nesmith was skeptical, but Snow, an entirely sober individual, insisted it was Blackbeard himself — especially given the fact that it spoke to him. The skull was donated to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, when Edward Snow passed away in the 1980s. To this day, many individuals remain hopeful that it will one day be authenticated.

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