Johnny Depp, it turns out, has led us astray. The real pirates of the Caribbean were actually bloodthirsty and terrifyingly violent, the Telegraph reports. Marine archeologists have been sifting ...

Besides maybe monster-truck driver, Barry Clifford has about the most badass job that exists: He’s a real-life, bona-fide treasure hunter. His 1983 discovery of the Whydah, a pirate ship wrecked off ...

When Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Wydah at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Machines Like Us at the Theatre Company of Lafayette come to town simultaneously tomorrow, it will set ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- Long John Silver of "Treasure Island" fame, hobbling along on a peg leg with a talking parrot on his shoulder, set the mold for Hollywood's image of a pirate. Then came Captain Hook ...

When a teacher from Landstown Middle School in Virginia Beach invited me to join her sixth-graders on a scavenger hunt, how could I say no? I'd inadvertently crashed their class trip to a pirate ...