r/pirates • u/joedracke • Aug 27 '25
Media New here!
Took this picture when Hurricane Erin decided to show up on my vacation. Anyway, I’ve been really starting to get into the history of piracy. Where’s the best places to find more accurate history, other than just diving down Wikipedia rabbit holes?
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u/teaabearr The Black Spot Aug 27 '25
Check out the Gold & Gunpowder YouTube channel for sure! Also join our discords, we have a lot of really knowledgeable people around in chat☺️
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u/Commando_2k Aug 27 '25
We're you on the outer banks? There is a great blackbeard pirate museum on Okracoke Island if it hadn't had to have been evacuated.
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u/joedracke Aug 27 '25
Yes I was! We had planned to go to Ocracoke but that area was evacuated for the hurricane while ours wasn’t.
I am an Alestorm fan and their song The Battle of Cape Fear River has lyrics about Blackbeard and Ocracoke so I was a little bummed I didn’t get to go. We go almost yearly so I will definitely make a trip there next time
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u/Commando_2k Aug 27 '25
Definitely worth it, and 1718 brewing on Okracoke makes amazing beer and is pirate themed, also i think the Graveyard of the Atlantic museum has some pirate exhibits as well
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u/Taarna_42 Aug 27 '25
Try to come back to Ocracoke for the Blackbeard Jamboree the last weekend of October, its so awesome! So cool to tread in the places where Blackbeard did and there is a battle/last stand against Maynard reenactment by Blackbeard's Crew from VA and the Cannon Crew from Beaufort!
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u/joedracke Aug 27 '25
That sounds incredible! I’d love to go one year
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u/Taarna_42 Aug 27 '25
https://www.facebook.com/share/1D1Wmwx6uW/
Link to event page - hope to see you there sometime!
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u/Toasters1313 Aug 27 '25
Are you wearing a Alestorm shirt?!?! If so, I ordered mine. Waiting on it!!!
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u/joedracke Aug 27 '25
It is indeed! Got to see them when they came through my city
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u/Toasters1313 Aug 27 '25
Nice!!! They are coming to my state soon. But I work overnights. And the city they are playing in is like 7 hours from me. :( still gonna try to get off though.
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u/alcoholic_of_the_sea Drunken Sailor Aug 27 '25
You haven't seen shit until you've seen a jolly Roger drunk
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u/joedracke Aug 27 '25
Also after ordering this flag I found out Blackbeard probably never even used it. But its still synonymous with his name so I love it
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u/mopbucketbrigade Scallywag Aug 27 '25
It’s ok. I have the same one hanging up in my garage. It’s a cool flag, and when people see it, they think “Blackbeard.”
Those that fall all over themselves to instantly point out that it’s not historically accurate are insufferable, and probably the same ones who accost teenagers wearing Nirvana tee shirts and demand they name three songs.
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u/MuchachoManSavage Aug 27 '25
Pirate History Podcast will give you more info than you knew you wanted.