Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a while there, it seemed like Stede Bonnet was living the life expected of someone in his respectable position. He was married ...

HBO’s new show Our Flag Means Death has brought the Golden Age of Piracy to life on TV, chronicling the life of the bumbling gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet. Season one mostly focuses on the fictional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warning: Major spoilers for the first three episodes of "Our Flag Means Death" season two. The Max comedy series follows the ...

When the pirate Stede Bonnet and his crew laid anchor in a small creek off the Cape Fear River in 1718, they weren’t looking over their shoulder. They should have been. In many ways, the tables had ...

Stede Bonnet was living the life by the age of 28: He was rich. He was married with three children, and the family lived on a 400-acre estate on a lush Caribbean island. Then he left it all behind. He ...

Stede Bonnet’s spontaneous decision to become a pirate at age 29 could be “the worst midlife crisis on record,” according to Smithsonian Magazine. But his jaunt into the world of seafaring criminals ...

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WILMINGTON – When the pirate Stede Bonnet was captured by authorities after trying to escape the Cape Fear River off Southport in 1718, it brought a close the elaborate story of the man known as the ...

Shiver me timbers, it’s a pirate’s life onstage at Theatre Three in Uptown Dallas. Now playing through May 1, Stede Bonnet: A F*cking Pirate Musical is inspired by the true story of Stede Bonnet, an ...

Are you ready kids pirate-loving adults? It's time to take a journey out to sea, and not in the delightful, fantastical way you may be used to. Imagine meeting someone who is deeply depressed, ...

Two of our favorite Kiwi comics are reuniting for one of the silliest projects we’ve heard of in a while. Rhys Darby stars in the Taika Waititi comedy series Our Flag Means Death. The HBO Max show ...