Blackbeard the Pirate

Blackbeard the Pirate was a Pirate that was killed in 1718. He led the fleet of the Queen Anne's Revenge and blockaded Charlestown, South Carolina. Along the way, he killed, and enslaved many Indian tribes, such as the Tuscarora Indians, and Arawak Indians in Jamaica. The Governors of Virginia, and North Carolina Alexander Spotswood, and Governor Charles Eden of Bath Town, and New Bern sent him under British Control. Blackbeard also was one to sail from the Caribbean as far north as Virginia. In the new movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," features Blackbeard. Recently in Beaufort, North Carolina, Fishermen, and Scuba Divers recovered Blackbeard's Anchor, and there is a new Queen Anne's Revenge display at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort. An old Ghost Story folktale at sea about Blackbeard was one of his 20 wives was that he had chopped one of his wives heads off at Channel Marker 13 near Morehead City, North Carolina, named "Headless Hattie," and every night on the 13th of each month, she comes out and scares people, and haunts boats at sea.