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Good! It still amazes me that it's based on a true story. Much embellished of course but no one knows the actual truth about Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet.

What we do know, though, is that neither man had a happy ending running an inn.
Stede Bonnet was eventually captured and hanged for piracy, even though he insisted at his trial that it was his crew who had acted alone, despite the fact he told them not to(!).
Edward Teach, AKA Blackbeard, was killed fighting the British who attempted capturing him. It was said he had been shot and stabbed multiple times before going down.

Yes I don't think they want to take the story that way!

I wonder if they're going to have some fake Blackbeard and Stede taking their places as pirates and coming to those grisly ends.

I assumed that Izzy