Dead Men Tell No Tales, We Tell True Tales. Planks and Buried Treasure Were Bogus!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Pirates have troubled sea travelers for many centuries, but there was one brief time in history—the Golden Age of Piracy—when pirates actually controlled them. From 1650 to 1730, fleets of pirate ships wreaked havoc around the Mediterranean Sea, across the Atlantic, in the China Sea and the Bay of Bengal, and throughout the Caribbean. Legend and lore grew from this period and, today, tales of walking the plank and buried treasure still remain.
They are just that. Tales. Tall tales.