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Blackbeards Skull
Jan 7^th, 2006 at 12:09am

I am very much impressed by the amount of knowledge held by my collegues in this forum, so perhaps I can ask for some slight assistance. For several years now, I have been trying to locate Blackbeards Skull. It was cut off by Lt. Maynard of the Royal Navy when Blackbeard was killed at Ocracoke, North Carolina in 1718. After being stuck on a pole and displayed at the entrance to Norfolk, Virginia the skull disappears. According to some stories the skull was made into a silver plated drinking cup, but as of yet I have been unable to find the real McCoy. Can anyone help out there? By the way, it's not that phoney skull painted with radiator paint that the Essex Institute palms off as Blackbeards.

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Fritz_the_Cat Senior Member Offline Eat Danish cheese Posts: 431 Detroit Michigan USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #1 - Jan 7^th, 2006 at 12:14pm Arrg ? Blackbeards skull you say ? Arrg. I'd think it would be cursed I dig for antique bottles in the Detroit area . If I find Jimmy H. I'll ask him 8)
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #2 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 3:38am No really, I'm serious.
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BrianS Descens Offline Does Tux love to Sling?!? Posts: 119 NY, USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #3 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 12:27pm Just curious, but why exactly do you want to find this relic? Are you planning on taking a trip to visit or are you writing a book or something? Sorry, just being nosey. Brian
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #4 - Jan 9^th, 2006 at 2:13pm I am writing a book.
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Fritz_the_Cat Senior Member Offline Eat Danish cheese Posts: 431 Detroit Michigan USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #5 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 11:53am I read Edgar Allan Poes story "The Gold Bug" It had a pirates skull in it also . Are you writing a fiction book based on facts ? When you are done let us know . I'll read it
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #6 - Jan 11^th, 2006 at 9:47pm Just the facts.
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Smudge Senior Member Offline Sticks and stones WILL brake your bones. Posts: 334 everywhere Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #7 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 8:56pm Uhhhhhh...well I had it but then I lost it. Funny story, really .
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Fritz_the_Cat Senior Member Offline Eat Danish cheese Posts: 431 Detroit Michigan USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #8 - Jan 12^th, 2006 at 11:10pm Have you come across any sinister pirates storys to go with the skull ? Please share ?
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lobohunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline where be a rock and a string there be a sling Posts: 1985 Cottage Grove or Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #9 - Jan 13^th, 2006 at 9:29am hmmm I am very interest In William my self After you find the goblet what you say we head down to the boars head and have us a pint in it
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #10 - Jan 28^th, 2006 at 11:29pm William?? ???
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lobohunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline where be a rock and a string there be a sling Posts: 1985 Cottage Grove or Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #11 - Jan 31^st, 2006 at 7:08pm sorry Edward as in Edward Teach I was thinking of a differnt pirate
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Re: Blackbeards Skull
Reply #12 - Jan 31^st, 2006 at 9:36pm

It's over the river and through the woods...

just make it up. as long as nobody knows where it really is and you have good logic behind you, you win by default. There was a show on the history channel about blackbeard once... and they didnt have any good explanation.

my theory: someone took his skull as a souveigneer, packed it away for safe keeping and died. person who inherited it somewhere down the line didn't know what it was and tossed it out. Roll Eyes

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Fritz_the_Cat Senior Member Offline Eat Danish cheese Posts: 431 Detroit Michigan USA Gender:	Re: Blackbeards Skull Reply #13 - Jan 31^st, 2006 at 10:34pm Arrg ! And a fine skull it probalbly was ..Arrg
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Reply #14 - Jan 31^st, 2006 at 11:31pm

Well, that would be one way to handle it. The problem is that stories about the skull keep cropping up in the historic record. It was supposedly at Williamsburg Va. for a while and it is said to have belonged to a college fraternity for a while along with many other stories about it. If it is still around somewhere I will find it. I have been looking for over 15 years now. Tongue

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