Pirate Lights of Pamlico Sound
Long after Blackbeard and other famous pirates hunted NC waters, they now haunt our shores. Legend has it that seagoers can still see "a phosphorescent glow . . . just below the surface of the water"—and any who do are fated to find disaster.
Learn more about this spooky site by reading Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore by Charles Harry Whedbee.
Many rejoiced when Blackbeard, the scourge of the seas, met his end . . . but that wasn't the end of Blackbeard's legacy.
