LOCATION FILE
Teach's Hole (Ocracoke Island)
FOLLOWOcracoke, NC
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A cove off Ocracoke Island where the pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, anchored his fleet and was killed in a November 1718 battle with a Royal Navy detachment led by Robert Maynard.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Local legend holds that Blackbeard's headless body swam around the inlet after his death, and generations of islanders and visitors have reported a strange light moving beneath the water, said to be his spirit searching for his head.
VISITING
The inlet and Ocracoke Island are open to the public; a nearby museum recounts the history.
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