Blackbeard's Lost Head

In 1718, Blackbeard's decapitated head was hung on the banks of the Hampton River, in Hampton, Virginia. It was an official British Navy posting ostensibly meant as a message to those involved in high seas thievery that they, too, will meet the same fate.

The severed head swung freely for several years until one day it disappeared, its whereabouts becoming the stuff of legend.

In 2025, former FBI agent Dodge Chee Jones is sifting through the estate of a deceased friend on the Port Gamble S'Kl...